Winter Sentinel-1 Backscatter as a Predictor of Spring Arctic Sea Ice Melt Pond Fraction

• Published in: Geophysical Research Letters
• Main Authors: Scharien, Randall K., Segal, Rebecca, Nasonova, Sasha, Nandan, Vishnu, Howell, Stephen E. L., Haas, Christian
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Geophysical Research Letters 2017
• Subjects: sea ice; melt ponds; microwave backscatter; Sentinel-1; seasonal forecast; Arctic; Canadian Arctic Archipelago; The Sentinel; Arctic Archipelago; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1828/10645; https://doi.org/10.1002/2017GL075547

Spring melt pond fraction (fp) has been shown to influence September sea ice extent and, with a growing need to improve melt pond physics in climate and forecast models, observations at large spatial scales are needed. We present a novel technique for estimating fp on sea ice at high spatial resolut...