Journal article
Satellite observations for detecting and forecasting sea-ice conditions: A summary of advances made in the SPICES Project by the EU's Horizon 2020 Programme
Finnish Meteorological Institute1
Danish Meteorological Institute2
Marche Polytechnic University3
National Space Institute, Technical University of Denmark4
Geodesy and Earth Observation, National Space Institute, Technical University of Denmark5
University of Naples Parthenope6
European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts7
Université de Bretagne Occidentale8
Alfred Wegener Institute - Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research9
University of Bremen10
University of Vienna11
National Research Council of Italy12
University of Hamburg13
...and 3 moreThe detection, monitoring, and forecasting of sea-ice conditions, including their extremes, is very important for ship navigation and offshore activities, and for monitoring of sea-ice processes and trends. We summarize here recent advances in the monitoring of sea-ice conditions and their extremes from satellite data as well as the development of sea-ice seasonal forecasting capabilities.
Our results are the outcome of the three-year (2015-2018) SPICES (Space-borne Observations for Detecting and Forecasting Sea-Ice Cover Extremes) project funded by the EU's Horizon 2020 programme. New SPICES sea-ice products include pancake ice thickness and degree of ice ridging based on synthetic aperture radar imagery, Arctic sea-ice volume and export derived from multisensor satellite data, and melt pond fraction and sea-ice concentration using Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) radiometer data.
Forecasts of July sea-ice conditions from initial conditions in May showed substantial improvement in some Arctic regions after adding sea-ice thickness (SIT) data to the model initialization. The SIT initialization also improved seasonal forecasts for years with extremely low summer sea-ice extent.
New SPICES sea-ice products have a demonstrable level of maturity, and with a reasonable amount of further work they can be integrated into various operational sea-ice services.
| Language: | English |
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| Publisher: | MDPI AG |
| Year: | 2020 |
| Pages: | 1214 |
| ISSN: | 20724292 |
| Types: | Journal article |
| DOI: | 10.3390/rs12071214 |
| ORCIDs: | 0000-0003-1250-6300 , 0000-0001-6406-8715 , 0000-0002-6999-1813 , 0000-0002-8840-0636 , 0000-0001-7090-1291 , 0000-0001-6928-7757 , 0000-0003-3346-9748 , 0000-0003-4799-0446 , 0000-0002-2961-0289 and Winstrup, Mai |
