We are very pleased to have an early look at sea
ice thickness data from recent NASA - sponsored «IceBridge» flights.
Johannes Fürst, a researcher at the University of Erlangen - Nuremberg's Institute of Geography in Germany, and colleagues report in Nature Climate Change that they analysed years
of ice thickness data from European Space Agency satellites and airborne measurements.
August 2017... Expert Contributor to the UCAR Climate Data Guide: «Sea
Ice Thickness Data Sets: Overview & Comparison Table» [Website]
This year, an effort was made to provide rapid -
release ice thickness data through coordinated measurement campaign in March and April by NASA's IceBridge Team, the SIZONet Arctic Observing Network project, the Naval Research Laboratory and industry (Fugro).
This year we continued the effort to provide rapid - release
ice thickness data through coordinated measurement campaign in March and April by NASA's IceBridge Team.
On an anecdotal side note, I am sorry that I (and Canada...) was not able to provide any
more ice thickness data this summer to nail down some of the issues discussed by so many of you.
The model simulation does not contain
assimilated ice thickness data and shows significant differences in particular in the region north of Greenland.
Less is known about southwest Greenland glaciers due to a lack
of ice thickness data but the glaciers have accelerated there as well and are likely to be strongly out of balance despite thickening of the interior.
As a result of limited satellite observations of sea ice thickness (for more information: Sea
Ice Thickness Data Sets: Overview and Comparison), few climate modeling experiments have isolated the role of changing sea ice thickness.
Zhang, J., D.R. Thomas, D.A. Rothrock, R.W. Lindsay, Y. Yu, and R. Kwok, «Assimilation of ice motion observations and comparisons with
submarine ice thickness data ``, J. Geophys.
As in 2012, sea ice thinning and not just anomalous weather should contribute to September 2013 sea ice loss (see the discussion of the IceBridge sea
ice thickness data from the June Report).
Millan, a UCI graduate student researcher in Earth system science, and his colleagues analyzed 20 major outlet glaciers in southeast Greenland using high - resolution airborne gravity measurements and
ice thickness data from NASA's Operation IceBridge mission; bathymetry information from NASA's Oceans Melting Greenland project; and results from the BedMachine version 3 computer model, developed at UCI.
In addition, sea
ice thickness data from three different projects were used to correct the PIOMAS sea ice thickness distribution estimates for 1 April 2013.
The Outlook also underscored important lessons for improvements in future efforts, including: a need for additional work on remote sensing of spring and summer sea ice conditions; sea
ice thickness data; and more formal forecasting and evaluation methods.
NASA Icebridge - Snow depth and sea
ice thickness data from the Quick Look data product.
Scientists report in Environmental Research Letters journal that they used satellite data from 1991 to 2015, and
ice thickness data from a separate NASA study, to calculate ice loss from the Queen Elizabeth Islands.