Sentences with phrase «calculated sea ice thickness»
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Predicting sea ice extent is easy if you can mentally calculate wind variations, momentum, sea currents, multi year ice compression ratios, tidal synergy with weather patterns, the AO, the temperature of ice sea water and air, how cloudy it will be, salinity, pycnocline convection rates, sea surface to air interface, CO2 exchange, ice thickness distributions.....
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Further: We calculate Arctic sea ice thickness and volume values from the standard, publically available CryoSat data as well as from near real time (NRT) CryoSat data provided directly to us from the European Space Agency.
However, our monthly sea ice volumes calculated from NRT and standard data agree to within 0.5 % on average, which shows that the NRT data allow us provide users with a reliable operational thickness and volume product.