Observations of sea ice melt from Operation IceBridge imagery

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: N. C. Wright, C. M. Polashenski, S. T. McMichael, R. A. Beyer
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2020
• Subjects: geo; envir; Arctic; Pleiades; albedo; Sea ice; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3523-2020; https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/14/3523/2020/tc-14-3523-2020.pdf; https://doaj.org/article/3d5cb27a185f49b2983ee384fb7997d6

The summer albedo of Arctic sea ice is heavily dependent on the fraction and color of melt ponds that form on the ice surface. This work presents a new dataset of sea ice surface fractions along Operation IceBridge (OIB) flight tracks derived from the Digital Mapping System optical imagery set. This...