Evaluation of a New Merged Sea-Ice Concentration Dataset at 1 km Resolution from Thermal Infrared and Passive Microwave Satellite Data in the Arctic
Sea-ice concentration (SIC) data with fine spatial resolution and spatially continuous coverage are needed, for example, for estimating heat fluxes. Passive microwave measurements of the Advanced Scanning Microwave Radiometer 2 (AMSR2) offer spatial continuity, but are limited to spatial resolutions...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:e1fb991bdafb4fb2aa416c631500890b 2023-05-15T14:58:08+02:00 Evaluation of a New Merged Sea-Ice Concentration Dataset at 1 km Resolution from Thermal Infrared and Passive Microwave Satellite Data in the Arctic Valentin Ludwig Gunnar Spreen Leif Toudal Pedersen 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12193183 https://doaj.org/article/e1fb991bdafb4fb2aa416c631500890b EN eng MDPI AG https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/12/19/3183 https://doaj.org/toc/2072-4292 doi:10.3390/rs12193183 2072-4292 https://doaj.org/article/e1fb991bdafb4fb2aa416c631500890b Remote Sensing, Vol 12, Iss 3183, p 3183 (2020) arctic sea-ice concentration fine spatial resolution merging thermal infrared passive microwave Science Q article 2020 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12193183 2022-12-31T04:01:38Z Sea-ice concentration (SIC) data with fine spatial resolution and spatially continuous coverage are needed, for example, for estimating heat fluxes. Passive microwave measurements of the Advanced Scanning Microwave Radiometer 2 (AMSR2) offer spatial continuity, but are limited to spatial resolutions of 5 km and coarser. Thermal infrared data of the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) provide a spatial resolution of 1 km, but are limited to cloud-free scenes. We exploit the benefits of both and present a merged SIC dataset with 1 km spatial resolution and spatially continuous coverage for the Arctic. MODIS and AMSR2 SIC are retrieved separately and then merged by tuning the MODIS SIC to preserve the mean AMSR2 SIC. We first evaluate the variability of the dynamically retrieved MODIS ice tie-point. Varying the starting position of the area used for the tie-point retrieval changes the MODIS SIC by on average 1.9%, which we mitigate by considering different starting positions and using the average as ice tie-point. Furthermore, the SIC datasets are evaluated against a reference dataset derived from Sentinel-2A/B reflectances between February and May 2019. We find that the merged SIC are 1.9% smaller than the reference SIC if thin ice is considered as ice and 4.9% higher if thin ice is considered as water. There is only a slight bias (0.3%) between the MODIS and the merged SIC; however, the root mean square deviation of 5% indicates that the two datasets do yield different results. In an example of poor-quality MODIS SIC, we identify an unscreened cloud and high ice-surface temperature as reasons for the poor quality. Still, the merged SIC are of similar quality as the passive microwave SIC in this example. The benefit of merging MODIS and AMSR2 data is demonstrated by showing that the finer resolution of the merged SIC compared to the AMSR2 SIC allows an enhanced potential for the retrieval of leads. At the same time, the data are available regardless of clouds. Last, we provide uncertainty ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Sea ice Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Arctic Remote Sensing 12 19 3183 |
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Sea-ice concentration (SIC) data with fine spatial resolution and spatially continuous coverage are needed, for example, for estimating heat fluxes. Passive microwave measurements of the Advanced Scanning Microwave Radiometer 2 (AMSR2) offer spatial continuity, but are limited to spatial resolutions of 5 km and coarser. Thermal infrared data of the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) provide a spatial resolution of 1 km, but are limited to cloud-free scenes. We exploit the benefits of both and present a merged SIC dataset with 1 km spatial resolution and spatially continuous coverage for the Arctic. MODIS and AMSR2 SIC are retrieved separately and then merged by tuning the MODIS SIC to preserve the mean AMSR2 SIC. We first evaluate the variability of the dynamically retrieved MODIS ice tie-point. Varying the starting position of the area used for the tie-point retrieval changes the MODIS SIC by on average 1.9%, which we mitigate by considering different starting positions and using the average as ice tie-point. Furthermore, the SIC datasets are evaluated against a reference dataset derived from Sentinel-2A/B reflectances between February and May 2019. We find that the merged SIC are 1.9% smaller than the reference SIC if thin ice is considered as ice and 4.9% higher if thin ice is considered as water. There is only a slight bias (0.3%) between the MODIS and the merged SIC; however, the root mean square deviation of 5% indicates that the two datasets do yield different results. In an example of poor-quality MODIS SIC, we identify an unscreened cloud and high ice-surface temperature as reasons for the poor quality. Still, the merged SIC are of similar quality as the passive microwave SIC in this example. The benefit of merging MODIS and AMSR2 data is demonstrated by showing that the finer resolution of the merged SIC compared to the AMSR2 SIC allows an enhanced potential for the retrieval of leads. At the same time, the data are available regardless of clouds. Last, we provide uncertainty ... |
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Evaluation of a New Merged Sea-Ice Concentration Dataset at 1 km Resolution from Thermal Infrared and Passive Microwave Satellite Data in the Arctic |
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Evaluation of a New Merged Sea-Ice Concentration Dataset at 1 km Resolution from Thermal Infrared and Passive Microwave Satellite Data in the Arctic |
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Evaluation of a New Merged Sea-Ice Concentration Dataset at 1 km Resolution from Thermal Infrared and Passive Microwave Satellite Data in the Arctic |
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Evaluation of a New Merged Sea-Ice Concentration Dataset at 1 km Resolution from Thermal Infrared and Passive Microwave Satellite Data in the Arctic |
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Evaluation of a New Merged Sea-Ice Concentration Dataset at 1 km Resolution from Thermal Infrared and Passive Microwave Satellite Data in the Arctic |
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evaluation of a new merged sea-ice concentration dataset at 1 km resolution from thermal infrared and passive microwave satellite data in the arctic |
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