Oceansat-2 OSCAT Arctic daily sea ice extent and backscatter maps

The sea ice extent and normalized backscatter from the OSCAT scatterometer on Oceansat-2 result from the Bayesian discrimination of measured backscatter distances to prescribed ocean wind and sea ice geophysical model functions. The sea ice product contains the Bayesian sea ice probability and a pro...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Verhoef, Anton, Belmonte Rivas, Maria, Stoffelen, Ad
Format: Dataset
Language:unknown
Published: Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) 2018
Subjects:
antarctic
scatterometer
sea ice extent
radar backscatter
ice age
ice type
ice class
Antarctic
Arctic
Antarc*
Sea ice
Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.21944/oceansat2_nh_sea_ice_v1.0
https://scatterometer.knmi.nl/ice_extents/
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Summary:The sea ice extent and normalized backscatter from the OSCAT scatterometer on Oceansat-2 result from the Bayesian discrimination of measured backscatter distances to prescribed ocean wind and sea ice geophysical model functions. The sea ice product contains the Bayesian sea ice probability and a proxy age of sea ice mapped onto 12.5 km polar stereographic grids. The sea ice extent is formed when the sea ice probability crosses a certain threshold, and the proxy age of sea ice is converted to (normalized HH and VV Ku-band) sea ice backscatter using the instructions detailed in the User Manual.

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