Variability of Arctic Sea Ice: The View from Space, An 18-year Record

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Parkinson, Claire L.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 2000
• Subjects: Arctic sea ice; climate change; polar climate; remote sensing; glace marine arctique; changement climatique; climat polaire; télédétection; Arctic; Baffin Bay; Baie de Baffin; Barents Sea; Bering Sea; Détroit de Davis; Greenland; Mer du Labrador; Okhotsk; Arctique*; Baffin; Climate change; Davis Strait; Greenland Sea; Labrador Sea; Mer de Barents; Mer de Béring; Mer de Norvège; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/63923

A recently compiled 18-year record (1979 to 1996) of sea ice concentrations derived from four passive-microwave satellite instruments has allowed the quantification of a variety of measures of Arctic sea ice variability. Earlier maps generated using data through August 1987 have been updated to 18-y...