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IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING
卷 59, 期 5, 页码 3764-3775出版社
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2020.3022945
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Buoyancy method; empirical method; Ice; Cloud; and Land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2); sea ice thickness (SIT); snow depth
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资金
- Programs for National Natural Science Foundation of China [41976212, 41830105]
- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2018YFC1407203]
The study examined sea ice thickness estimates derived from ICESat-2, showing its high reliability in total freeboard but notable differences in SIT estimates compared to IceBird data, likely due to uncertainties from other parameters. The BMA method proved to be the best for SIT estimation, with potential error sources in ice density and snow depth that require further investigation.
The successful launch of the Ice, Cloud, and Land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) provides a new and advanced tool for sea ice thickness (SIT) estimations in the Arctic. However, the performance of ICESat-2 for SIT estimations still remains unknown. In the present study, SIT estimates derived from ICESat-2 are examined using three retrieval methods, namely, two buoyancy methods with the merged snow depth and empirical snow depth (BMA and BME, respectively) and one empirical estimation method (EEM), and these estimates are compared to near-simultaneous airborne measurements from the IceBird mission in April 2019. Overall, the ICESat-2 total freeboard registers quite well with that from the near-concurrent IceBird mission with a mean bias of 2.5 cm, which demonstrates the high reliability of ICESat-2 data for SIT estimation. However, the much more evident difference between SIT estimations than total freeboard from ICESat-2 and IceBird indicates that other parameters (e.g., snow depth and snow/ice densities) may bring increased uncertainties to the SIT estimation. Overall, BMA is the best method for SIT estimation and has the closest thickness distribution to that of IceBird data with a mean bias of 0.11 m, followed by the BME and EEM methods. The dominate error sources for SIT estimation using the buoyancy method are ice density and snow depth that require further investigation in future studies.
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