An Assessment of State-of-the-Art Mean Sea Surface and Geoid Models of the Arctic Ocean: Implications for Sea Ice Freeboard Retrieval

• Main Authors: Skourup, H, Farrell, SL, Hendricks, S, Ricker, R, Armitage, TWK, Ridout, A, Andersen, OB, Haas, C, Baker, S
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Arctic; sea ice; mean sea surface; geoid model; error estimation; altimetry; Arctic Ocean; Gakkel Ridge; ice pack; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10039581/1/Skourup_et_al-2017-Journal_of_Geophysical_Research__Oceans.pdf; https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10039581/

State-of-the-art Arctic Ocean mean sea surface (MSS) models and global geoid models (GGMs) are used to support sea ice freeboard estimation from satellite altimeters, as well as in oceanographic studies such as mapping sea level anomalies and mean dynamic ocean topography. However, errors in a given...