Sea ice drift and arch evolution in the Robeson Channel using the daily coverage of Sentinel-1 SAR data for the 2016–2017 freezing season

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: M. E. Shokr, Z. Wang, T. Liu
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2020
• Subjects: geo; envir; Arctic; Baffin Bay; Ellesmere Island; Greenland; Robeson Channel; The Sentinel; Baffin; Robeson channel; Sea ice; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3611-2020; https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/14/3611/2020/tc-14-3611-2020.pdf; https://doaj.org/article/e389b828aafc4251bed6b8b3d76ccdd9

The Robeson Channel is a narrow sea water passage between Greenland and Ellesmere Island in the Arctic. It is a pathway of sea ice from the central Arctic and out to Baffin Bay. In this study, we used a set of daily synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images from the Sentinel-1A/1B satellites, acquired b...