Relevance of warm air intrusions for Arctic satellite sea ice concentration time series
Winter warm air intrusions entering the Arctic region can strongly modify the microwave emission of the snow-covered sea ice system due to temperature-induced snow metamorphism and ice crust formations, e.g., after melt–refreeze events. Common microwave radiometer satellite sea ice concentration ret...
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ftnonlinearchiv:oai:noa.gwlb.de:cop_mods_00068735 2023-10-09T21:48:48+02:00 Relevance of warm air intrusions for Arctic satellite sea ice concentration time series Rostosky, Philip Spreen, Gunnar 2023-09 electronic https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-3867-2023 https://noa.gwlb.de/receive/cop_mods_00068735 https://noa.gwlb.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/cop_derivate_00067153/tc-17-3867-2023.pdf https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/17/3867/2023/tc-17-3867-2023.pdf eng eng Copernicus Publications The Cryosphere -- ˜Theœ Cryosphere -- http://www.bibliothek.uni-regensburg.de/ezeit/?2393169 -- http://www.the-cryosphere.net/ -- 1994-0424 https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-3867-2023 https://noa.gwlb.de/receive/cop_mods_00068735 https://noa.gwlb.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/cop_derivate_00067153/tc-17-3867-2023.pdf https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/17/3867/2023/tc-17-3867-2023.pdf https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ uneingeschränkt info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article Verlagsveröffentlichung article Text doc-type:article 2023 ftnonlinearchiv https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-3867-2023 2023-09-10T23:21:43Z Winter warm air intrusions entering the Arctic region can strongly modify the microwave emission of the snow-covered sea ice system due to temperature-induced snow metamorphism and ice crust formations, e.g., after melt–refreeze events. Common microwave radiometer satellite sea ice concentration retrievals are based on empirical models using the snow-covered sea ice emissivity and thus can be influenced by strong warm air intrusions. Here, we carry out a long-term study analyzing 41 years of winter sea ice concentration observations from different algorithms to investigate the impact of warm air intrusions on the retrieved ice concentration. Our results show that three out of four algorithms underestimate the sea ice concentration during (and up to 10 d after) warm air intrusions which increase the 2 m air temperature (daily maximum) above − 5 ∘C. This can lead to sea ice area underestimations in the order of 104 to 105 km2. If the 2 m temperature during the warm air intrusions crosses − 2 ∘C, all algorithms are impacted. Our analysis shows that the strength of these strong warm air intrusions increased in recent years, especially in April. With a further climate change, such warm air intrusions are expected to occur more frequently and earlier in the season, and their influence on sea ice climate data records will become more important. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Climate change Sea ice The Cryosphere Niedersächsisches Online-Archiv NOA Arctic The Cryosphere 17 9 3867 3881 |
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Winter warm air intrusions entering the Arctic region can strongly modify the microwave emission of the snow-covered sea ice system due to temperature-induced snow metamorphism and ice crust formations, e.g., after melt–refreeze events. Common microwave radiometer satellite sea ice concentration retrievals are based on empirical models using the snow-covered sea ice emissivity and thus can be influenced by strong warm air intrusions. Here, we carry out a long-term study analyzing 41 years of winter sea ice concentration observations from different algorithms to investigate the impact of warm air intrusions on the retrieved ice concentration. Our results show that three out of four algorithms underestimate the sea ice concentration during (and up to 10 d after) warm air intrusions which increase the 2 m air temperature (daily maximum) above − 5 ∘C. This can lead to sea ice area underestimations in the order of 104 to 105 km2. If the 2 m temperature during the warm air intrusions crosses − 2 ∘C, all algorithms are impacted. Our analysis shows that the strength of these strong warm air intrusions increased in recent years, especially in April. With a further climate change, such warm air intrusions are expected to occur more frequently and earlier in the season, and their influence on sea ice climate data records will become more important. |
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Relevance of warm air intrusions for Arctic satellite sea ice concentration time series |
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Relevance of warm air intrusions for Arctic satellite sea ice concentration time series |
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Relevance of warm air intrusions for Arctic satellite sea ice concentration time series |
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Relevance of warm air intrusions for Arctic satellite sea ice concentration time series |
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Relevance of warm air intrusions for Arctic satellite sea ice concentration time series |
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relevance of warm air intrusions for arctic satellite sea ice concentration time series |
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