Arctic sea ice velocity in summer from AMSR2 (2013-2023)

• Main Authors: Shi, Qian, Yang, Qinghua
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: Zenodo 2024
• Subjects: remote sensing; Arctic sea ice; sea ice velocity; summer; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12618229

Sea ice drift in summer plays a key role in Arctic sea ice mass balance and navigation safety of the Arctic Passage. Resulted from surface melt over sea ice and atmospheric water vapor, previous passive microwave sea ice velocity data present relatively poor quality in summer than in winter. Here, based on an improved sea ice velocity retrieval method, we produced daily Arctic sea ice velocity data during summertime (May 1st to September 30th) from 2013 to 2023. These sea ice velocity data are derived from the daily gridded AMSR2 brightness temperature (TB) at 36.5 GHz channel distributed by the University of Bremen using the continuous maximum cross-correlation algorithm. We used the polarization difference of TB to track the displacement of the sea ice templates. The size of templates is 11×11 pixels, and the spatial spacing between adjacent templates is five pixels. The time interval of this data is 24 h, and the spatial resolution is 62.5 km. Outliers were identified and discarded by surface wind (10-m wind derived from ERA5 atmospheric reanalysis) and surrounding sea ice velocity vectors. Vectors over open water areas were discarded by sea ice concentration with 6.25 km distributed by the University of Bremen.