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Variability and trends in the Arctic Sea ice cover: Results from different techniques
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Variability and trend studies of sea ice in the Arctic have been conducted using products derived from the same raw passive microwave data but by different groups using different algorithms. This study provides consistency assessment of four of the leading products, namely, Goddard Bootstrap (SB2), Goddard NASA Team (NT1), EUMETSAT Ocean and Sea Ice Satellite Application Facility (OSI‐SAF 1.2), and Hadley HadISST 2.2 data in evaluating variability and trends in the Arctic sea ice cover. All four provide generally similar ice patterns but significant disagreements in ice concentration distributions especially in the marginal ice zone and adjacent regions in winter and meltponded areas in summer. The discrepancies are primarily due to different ways the four techniques account for occurrences of new ice and meltponding. However, results show that the different products generally provide consistent and similar representation of the state of the Arctic sea ice cover. Hadley and NT1 data usually provide the highest and lowest monthly ice extents, respectively. The Hadley data also show the lowest trends in ice extent and ice area at −3.88%/decade and −4.37%/decade, respectively, compared to an average of −4.36%/decade and −4.57%/decade for all four. Trend maps also show similar spatial distribution for all four with the largest negative trends occurring at the Kara/Barents Sea and Beaufort Sea regions, where sea ice has been retreating the fastest. The good agreement of the trends especially with updated data provides strong confidence in the quantification of the rate of decline in the Arctic sea ice cover.
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“Integrated over the entire Arctic, these differences accumulate up to a 20 % uncertainty in the long-term trends of sea-ice extent and seaice area (Comiso et al., 2017b), which hinders a robust evaluation and bias correction of climate models, and in particular hinders a robust estimate of the…”
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- Comiso, J. C., Meier, W. N., & Gersten, R.
- Venue
- Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
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- American Geophysical Union (AGU)
- Published
- 2017-08
- Volume
- 122
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- 6883-6900
- ISSN
- 2169-9275 (ISSN-L)
- 2169-9291
- OpenAlex
- W2735878005
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- 283
- References
- 34
- FWCI
- 15.13
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- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
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