Monitoring of Arctic Conditions from a Virtual Constellation of Synthetic Aperture Radar Satellites

• Main Authors: Graber, Hans C, Minnett, Peter J
• Other Authors: MIAMI UNIV FL ROSENSTIEL SCHOOL OF MARINE AND ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Snow; Ice and Permafrost; *ARCTIC OCEAN; *CYCLES; *SEA ICE; FORECASTING; FREEZING; MELTING; MONITORING; SATELLITE CONSTELLATIONS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; BEAUFORT SEA; CHUKCHI SEA; BERING SEA; SUMMER ICE EDGE DETERMINATION; ICE COVERAGE; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Bering Sea; Chukchi Sea; Beaufort Sea; Chukchi; Ice; permafrost; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA572172; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA572172

LONG-TERM GOALS: Utilize a constellation of satellite radars to monitor the melting and freezing cycles of the Arctic Ocean north of 65 deg. From difference maps of a timeseries of images deduce changes in ice extent, ice-type, and lead expansion/contraction with temporal resolutions from hours to days. Ultimately provide a routine Arctic coverage and generate products for operational purposes, and as validation, boundary conditions, and initialization to numerical ice-ocean forecast models.