Assessment of AMSR2 Ice Extent and Ice Edge in the Arctic Using IMS

Yinghui Liu; Sean Helfrich; Walter N. Meier; Richard Dworak

doi:10.3390/rs12101582

Remote Sensing (May 2020)

Assessment of AMSR2 Ice Extent and Ice Edge in the Arctic Using IMS

Yinghui Liu,
Sean Helfrich,
Walter N. Meier,
Richard Dworak

Affiliations

Yinghui Liu: Center for Satellite Applications and Research, NOAA/NESDIS, 1225 West Dayton St., Madison, WI 53706, USA
Sean Helfrich: Center for Satellite Applications and Research, NOAA/NESDIS, 5830 University Research Ct, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Walter N. Meier: National Snow and Ice Data Center, CIRES, 449 UCB, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
Richard Dworak: Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1225 West Dayton St., Madison, WI 53706, USA

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12101582
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 12, no. 10
p. 1582

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This work assesses the AMSR2 (the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2) ice extent and ice edge in the Arctic using the ice extent products of NOAA’s Interactive Multisensor Snow and Ice Mapping System (IMS) from the period of July 2015 to July 2019. Daily values and monthly means of four statistical scores (hit rate, false alarm ratio, false alarm rate, and Hanssen-Kuiper Skill Score) over the Arctic Ocean show distinct annual cycles. IMS ice edges often extend further south compared to those from AMSR2, with up to 100 km differences over the Beaufort, Chukchi, and East Siberian Seas in August and September.

Published in Remote Sensing

ISSN: 2072-4292 (Online)
Publisher: MDPI AG
Country of publisher: Switzerland
LCC subjects: Science
Website: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing/

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