Verification of a New NOAA/NSIDC Passive Microwave Sea-Ice Concentration Climate Record
A new satellite-based passive microwave sea-ice concentration product developed for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)Climate Data Record (CDR) programme is evaluated via comparison with other passive microwave-derived estimates. The new product leverages two well-established...
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ftnasantrs:oai:casi.ntrs.nasa.gov:20150011077 2023-05-15T17:14:20+02:00 Verification of a New NOAA/NSIDC Passive Microwave Sea-Ice Concentration Climate Record Scott, Donna J. Peng, Ge Meier, Walter N. Savoie, Matt H. Unclassified, Unlimited, Publicly available December 22, 2014 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/2060/20150011077 unknown Document ID: 20150011077 http://hdl.handle.net/2060/20150011077 Copyright, Distribution as joint owner in the copyright CASI Meteorology and Climatology Oceanography GSFC-E-DAA-TN20253 Polar Research; 33 2014 ftnasantrs 2019-07-21T00:07:14Z A new satellite-based passive microwave sea-ice concentration product developed for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)Climate Data Record (CDR) programme is evaluated via comparison with other passive microwave-derived estimates. The new product leverages two well-established concentration algorithms, known as the NASA Team and Bootstrap, both developed at and produced by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). The sea ice estimates compare well with similar GSFC products while also fulfilling all NOAA CDR initial operation capability (IOC) requirements, including (1) self describing file format, (2) ISO 19115-2 compliant collection-level metadata,(3) Climate and Forecast (CF) compliant file-level metadata, (4) grid-cell level metadata (data quality fields), (5) fully automated and reproducible processing and (6) open online access to full documentation with version control, including source code and an algorithm theoretical basic document. The primary limitations of the GSFC products are lack of metadata and use of untracked manual corrections to the output fields. Smaller differences occur from minor variations in processing methods by the National Snow and Ice Data Center (for the CDR fields) and NASA (for the GSFC fields). The CDR concentrations do have some differences from the constituent GSFC concentrations, but trends and variability are not substantially different. Other/Unknown Material National Snow and Ice Data Center Sea ice NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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A new satellite-based passive microwave sea-ice concentration product developed for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)Climate Data Record (CDR) programme is evaluated via comparison with other passive microwave-derived estimates. The new product leverages two well-established concentration algorithms, known as the NASA Team and Bootstrap, both developed at and produced by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). The sea ice estimates compare well with similar GSFC products while also fulfilling all NOAA CDR initial operation capability (IOC) requirements, including (1) self describing file format, (2) ISO 19115-2 compliant collection-level metadata,(3) Climate and Forecast (CF) compliant file-level metadata, (4) grid-cell level metadata (data quality fields), (5) fully automated and reproducible processing and (6) open online access to full documentation with version control, including source code and an algorithm theoretical basic document. The primary limitations of the GSFC products are lack of metadata and use of untracked manual corrections to the output fields. Smaller differences occur from minor variations in processing methods by the National Snow and Ice Data Center (for the CDR fields) and NASA (for the GSFC fields). The CDR concentrations do have some differences from the constituent GSFC concentrations, but trends and variability are not substantially different. |
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Verification of a New NOAA/NSIDC Passive Microwave Sea-Ice Concentration Climate Record |
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Verification of a New NOAA/NSIDC Passive Microwave Sea-Ice Concentration Climate Record |
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Verification of a New NOAA/NSIDC Passive Microwave Sea-Ice Concentration Climate Record |
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Verification of a New NOAA/NSIDC Passive Microwave Sea-Ice Concentration Climate Record |
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Verification of a New NOAA/NSIDC Passive Microwave Sea-Ice Concentration Climate Record |
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verification of a new noaa/nsidc passive microwave sea-ice concentration climate record |
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