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AMSR-E Sea Ice Products
Thorsten Markus
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt, MD
Footprint size
58 km
37 km
21 km
11 km
5 km
Level 2A TBs
Arctic and Antarctic:
NASA Team2 NASA Team 2 - AMSR Bootstrap
Arctic and Antarctic:
NASA Team2 NASA Team 2 - Bootstrap
AMSR Bootstrap/Ice temperature
Footprint size
58 km
37 km
21 km
11 km
5 km
AMSR Bootstrap/Ice temperature
Bootstrap
Footprint size
58 km
37 km
21 km
11 km
5 km
AMSR Bootstrap/Ice temperature
Bootstrap
NASA Team 2/Snow depth
Footprint size
58 km
37 km
21 km
11 km
5 km
Ice concentration algorithms
Algorithms: Channels used:NASA Team 2: 19V, 19H, 22V, 37V, 89V, 89HBootstrap: 19V, 37V, 37HAMSR Bootstrap: 6V, 19V, 37V
NASA Team 2: Overcomes some of the problems of the “original” NASA Team algorithm through the additional use of the 89 GHz channels. Usage of these requires correction for atmospheric effects, which is done utilizing radiative transfer modeling.
Bootstrap (for 12.5 km product):“Standard” Bootstrap with the difference that 37H was previously only used for the Arctic but is now used for both hemispheres.
AMSR Bootstrap (for 25 km product):Accounts for temperature effects in the ice concentration retrievals using 6 GHz data.
Jan. 6, 2006
Sep. 20, 2005
Snow depth on sea ice
Approach: Similar to snow on land; difference in snow scattering between 19 and 37 GHz
Input data: TB(19V), TB(37V), NT2 ice concentration
Notes:
• 12.5 km grid product
• 5-day averages; temporal information is used to flag wet snow
• no snow depth retrievals over multi-year ice
• maximum retrievable snow depth about 50 cm (penetration depth @37GHz)
Jan. 6, 2006 Sep. 20, 2005
Ice temperature
Approach: Part of the AMSR Bootstrap (ABA) ice concentration algorithm; TB=e Ti
Input data: TB(6.9V), ABA ice concentration
Notes:
• Temperature of (or close to) snow-ice interface
• 25 km grid product
TB = e Ti
TB(6V); NT2 sea ice concentration
Jan. 6, 2006 Sep. 20, 2005
Comments from the community:
- HDF-files are large (about 50 MB @ 12.5 km) for each day.
- HDF is not easy to handle (suggestions for additional data formats included geoTIFF etc.).
- No separate sea ice concentration product.
- Requests for monthly ice concentration maps.
- Passive microwave ice drift/ice motion is widely used; should it become a standard product?