Arctic Sea-Ice Permittivity Derived from GNSS Reflectometry Data of the MOSAiC Expedition
Sea ice is a crucial parameter of the Earth's climate system. Its high albedo compared to water and its insulating effect between ocean and atmosphere influences the oceans' radiation budget significantly. The importance of monitoring sea-ice properties arises from the high variability of...
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ftdlr:oai:elib.dlr.de:188028 2024-05-19T07:27:46+00:00 Arctic Sea-Ice Permittivity Derived from GNSS Reflectometry Data of the MOSAiC Expedition Semmling, Maximilian Wickert, Jens Kreß, Frederik Hoque, Mohammed Mainul Divine, Dmitry Gerland, Sebastian Spreen, Gunnar 2022 application/pdf https://elib.dlr.de/188028/ https://elib.dlr.de/188028/1/220524_egu_semmling_et_al_display_material.pdf https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU22/EGU22-3030.html en eng https://elib.dlr.de/188028/1/220524_egu_semmling_et_al_display_material.pdf Semmling, Maximilian und Wickert, Jens und Kreß, Frederik und Hoque, Mohammed Mainul und Divine, Dmitry und Gerland, Sebastian und Spreen, Gunnar (2022) Arctic Sea-Ice Permittivity Derived from GNSS Reflectometry Data of the MOSAiC Expedition. EGU General Assembly 2022, 2022-05-23 - 2022-05-27, Wien, Österreich. doi:10.5194/egusphere-egu22-3030 <https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu22-3030>. Weltraumwetterbeobachtung Konferenzbeitrag NonPeerReviewed 2022 ftdlr https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu22-3030 2024-04-25T01:02:02Z Sea ice is a crucial parameter of the Earth's climate system. Its high albedo compared to water and its insulating effect between ocean and atmosphere influences the oceans' radiation budget significantly. The importance of monitoring sea-ice properties arises from the high variability of sea ice induced by seasonal change and global warming. GNSS reflectometry can contribute to global monitoring of sea ice with high potential to extend the spatio-temporal coverage of today's observation techniques. Properties like ice salinity, temperature, thickness and snow cover can affect the signal reflection. The MOSAiC expedition (Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate) gave us the opportunity to conduct reflectometry measurements under different sea-ice conditions in the central Arctic. A dedicated setup was mounted, in close cooperation with the Alfred-Wegener-Institute (AWI), on the German research icebreaker Polarstern that drifted for one year with the Arctic sea ice. We present results from data recorded between autumn 2019 and spring 2020. The ship drifted in this period from the Siberian Sector of the Arctic (October 2019), over the central Arctic (November 2019 until May 2020) towards Fram Strait and Svalbard (reached in June 2020). Profiles of sea-ice reflectivity over elevation angle (range: 1° to 45°) are derived with daily resolution considering reflection data recorded at left-handed (LH) and right-handed (RH) circular polarization. Respective predictions of reflectivity are based on reflection models of bulk sea ice or a sea-ice slab. The latter allows to include the effect of signal penetration down to the underlying water. Results of comparison between LH profiles and bulk model confirm a reflectivity decrease (about 10 dB) when surrounding open water areas is reduced (by freezing) and the ship drifts in compact sea ice. Further results comprise estimates of sea-ice permittivity from mid-elevation range reflectivity (10° to 30°). The median of estimated permittivity 2.4 ... Conference Object albedo Arctic Arctic Fram Strait Global warming Icebreaker Sea ice Svalbard German Aerospace Center: elib - DLR electronic library |
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Sea ice is a crucial parameter of the Earth's climate system. Its high albedo compared to water and its insulating effect between ocean and atmosphere influences the oceans' radiation budget significantly. The importance of monitoring sea-ice properties arises from the high variability of sea ice induced by seasonal change and global warming. GNSS reflectometry can contribute to global monitoring of sea ice with high potential to extend the spatio-temporal coverage of today's observation techniques. Properties like ice salinity, temperature, thickness and snow cover can affect the signal reflection. The MOSAiC expedition (Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate) gave us the opportunity to conduct reflectometry measurements under different sea-ice conditions in the central Arctic. A dedicated setup was mounted, in close cooperation with the Alfred-Wegener-Institute (AWI), on the German research icebreaker Polarstern that drifted for one year with the Arctic sea ice. We present results from data recorded between autumn 2019 and spring 2020. The ship drifted in this period from the Siberian Sector of the Arctic (October 2019), over the central Arctic (November 2019 until May 2020) towards Fram Strait and Svalbard (reached in June 2020). Profiles of sea-ice reflectivity over elevation angle (range: 1° to 45°) are derived with daily resolution considering reflection data recorded at left-handed (LH) and right-handed (RH) circular polarization. Respective predictions of reflectivity are based on reflection models of bulk sea ice or a sea-ice slab. The latter allows to include the effect of signal penetration down to the underlying water. Results of comparison between LH profiles and bulk model confirm a reflectivity decrease (about 10 dB) when surrounding open water areas is reduced (by freezing) and the ship drifts in compact sea ice. Further results comprise estimates of sea-ice permittivity from mid-elevation range reflectivity (10° to 30°). The median of estimated permittivity 2.4 ... |
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Arctic Sea-Ice Permittivity Derived from GNSS Reflectometry Data of the MOSAiC Expedition |
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Arctic Sea-Ice Permittivity Derived from GNSS Reflectometry Data of the MOSAiC Expedition |
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Arctic Sea-Ice Permittivity Derived from GNSS Reflectometry Data of the MOSAiC Expedition |
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Arctic Sea-Ice Permittivity Derived from GNSS Reflectometry Data of the MOSAiC Expedition |
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Arctic Sea-Ice Permittivity Derived from GNSS Reflectometry Data of the MOSAiC Expedition |
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arctic sea-ice permittivity derived from gnss reflectometry data of the mosaic expedition |
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https://elib.dlr.de/188028/1/220524_egu_semmling_et_al_display_material.pdf Semmling, Maximilian und Wickert, Jens und Kreß, Frederik und Hoque, Mohammed Mainul und Divine, Dmitry und Gerland, Sebastian und Spreen, Gunnar (2022) Arctic Sea-Ice Permittivity Derived from GNSS Reflectometry Data of the MOSAiC Expedition. EGU General Assembly 2022, 2022-05-23 - 2022-05-27, Wien, Österreich. doi:10.5194/egusphere-egu22-3030 <https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu22-3030>. |
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