Snow Thickness Estimation on First-Year Sea Ice from Microwave and Optical Remote Sensing and Melt Modelling

• Main Author: Zheng, Jiacheng
• Other Authors: Yackel, John, Else, Brent, Michael, Sideris
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Graduate Studies 2017
• Subjects: Physical Geography; Remote Sensing; Sea ice; Modelling; Snow; Microwave; Cryosphere; Canadian Arctic; Arctic; Canada; Dease Strait; Nunavut
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11023/3574; https://doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/27807

Late-winter snow thickness on first-year sea ice is estimated based on the duration of snowmelt. The study encompasses the late-winter to advanced-melt period. The beginning of snowmelt is detected using space-borne C-band microwave scatterometer measurements, and the end of snowmelt is detected usi...