Oceansat-2 OSCAT Antarctic 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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Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI)
2018
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Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.21944/oceansat2_sh_sea_ice_v1.0 https://scatterometer.knmi.nl/ice_extents/ |
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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