From observation to information and users: The Copernicus Marine Service perspective

PY Le Traon, A Reppucci, E Alvarez Fanjul… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service (CMEMS) provides regular and
systematic reference information on the physical and biogeochemical ocean and sea-ice …

Ocean reanalyses: recent advances and unsolved challenges

A Storto, A Alvera-Azcárate, MA Balmaseda… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Ocean reanalyses combine ocean models, atmospheric forcing fluxes, and observations
using data assimilation to give a four-dimensional description of the ocean. Metrics …

The scientific legacy of NASA's Operation IceBridge

JA MacGregor, LN Boisvert, B Medley, AA Petty… - 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)'s Operation IceBridge
(OIB) was a 13‐year (2009–2021) airborne mission to survey land and sea ice across the …

Winter Arctic sea ice thickness from ICESat‐2 freeboards

AA Petty, NT Kurtz, R Kwok, T Markus… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA's) Ice, Cloud, and land
Elevation Satellite‐2 (ICESat‐2) mission was launched in September 2018 with the primary …

Improving Met Office seasonal predictions of Arctic sea ice using assimilation of CryoSat-2 thickness

EW Blockley, KA Peterson - The Cryosphere, 2018 - tc.copernicus.org
Interest in seasonal predictions of Arctic sea ice has been increasing in recent years owing,
primarily, to the sharp reduction in Arctic sea-ice cover observed over the last few decades …

[HTML][HTML] An improved estimate of the coupled Arctic energy budget

M Mayer, S Tietsche, L Haimberger… - Journal of …, 2019 - journals.ametsoc.org
An Improved Estimate of the Coupled Arctic Energy Budget in: Journal of Climate Volume 32
Issue 22 (2019) Jump to Content Jump to Main Navigation Logo Logo Logo Logo Logo Logo …

Polar ocean observations: A critical gap in the observing system and its effect on environmental predictions from hours to a season

GC Smith, R Allard, M Babin, L Bertino… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
There is a growing need for operational oceanographic predictions in both the Arctic and
Antarctic polar regions. In the former, this is driven by a declining ice cover accompanied by …

A 10-year record of Arctic summer sea ice freeboard from CryoSat-2

G Dawson, J Landy, M Tsamados, AS Komarov… - Remote Sensing of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Satellite observations of pan-Arctic sea ice thickness have so far been constrained to winter
months. For radar altimeters, conventional methods cannot differentiate leads from …

[HTML][HTML] Assessment of contemporary satellite sea ice thickness products for Arctic sea ice

H Sallila, SL Farrell, J McCurry, E Rinne - The Cryosphere, 2019 - tc.copernicus.org
Advances in remote sensing of sea ice over the past two decades have resulted in a wide
variety of satellite-derived sea ice thickness data products becoming publicly available …

A facet-based numerical model for simulating SAR altimeter echoes from heterogeneous sea ice surfaces

JC Landy, M Tsamados… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cryosat-2 has provided measurements of pan-Arctic sea ice thickness since 2010 with
unprecedented spatial coverage and frequency. However, it remains uncertain how the Ku …