Selected publications related to the CCI Sea Ice project

Lavergne, T., Sørensen, A. M., Kern, S., Tonboe, R., Notz, D., Aaboe, S., Bell, L., Dybkjær, G., Eastwood, S., Gabarro, C., Heygster, G., Killie, M. A., Kreiner, M. B., Lavelle, J., Saldo, R., Sandven, S., and Pedersen, L. T.: Version 2 of the EUMETSAT OSI SAF and ESA CCI Sea Ice Concentration Climate Data Records, The Cryosphere Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2018-127, in review, 2018.

Quartly, G. D., Rinne, E., Passaro, M., Andersen, O. B., Dinardo, S., Fleury, S., Guerreiro, K., Guillot, A., Hendricks, S., Kurekin, A. A., Müller, F. L., Ricker, R., Skourup, H., and Tsamados, M.: Review of Radar Altimetry Techniques over the Arctic Ocean: Recent Progress and Future Opportunities for Sea Level and Sea Ice Research, The Cryosphere Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2018-148, in review, 2018.

Philip Rostosky, Sinead L. Farrell, Gunnar Spreen, Christian Melsheimer, Georg Heygster, Torben Frost. Snow Depth Retrieval on Arctic Sea Ice from Passive Microwave Radiometers – Extension to lower Frequencies, submitted to JGR Ocean, 2018

Kaminski, T., Kauker, F., Toudal Pedersen, L., Voßbeck, M., Haak, H., Niederdrenk, L., Hendricks, S., Ricker, R., Karcher, M., Eicken, H., and Gråbak, O.: Arctic Mission Benefit Analysis: impact of sea ice thickness, freeboard, and snow depth products on sea ice forecast performance, The Cryosphere, 12, 2569-2594, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-2569-2018, 2018.

Shalina, E. V. and Sandven, S.: Snow depth on Arctic sea ice from historical in situ data, The Cryosphere, 12, 1867-1886, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-1867-2018, 2018

Paul, S., Hendricks, S., Ricker, R., Kern, S., and Rinne, E.: Empirical parametrization of Envisat freeboard retrieval of Arctic and Antarctic sea ice based on CryoSat-2: progress in the ESA Climate Change Initiative, The Cryosphere, 12, 2437-2460, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-2437-2018, 2018.

Lauer et al. Benchmarking CMIP5 models with a subset of ESA CCI Phase 2 data using

the ESMValTool. Remote Sensing of Environment 203 (2017) 9–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2017.01.007

Ricker, R., Hendricks, S., Kaleschke, L., Tian-Kunze, X., King, J., and Haas, C.: A weekly Arctic sea-ice thickness data record from merged CryoSat-2 and SMOS satellite data, The Cryosphere, 11, 1607-1623, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-1607-2017, 2017

Scarlat, R., Heygster, G., Pedersen, L.T. Experiences With an Optimal Estimation Algorithm for Surface and Atmospheric Parameter Retrieval From Passive Microwave Data in the Arctic. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing (Volume: 10, Issue: 9, Sept. 2017 ) 

Kern, S., Rösel, A., Pedersen, L. T., Ivanova, N., Saldo, R., and Tonboe, R. T.: The impact of melt ponds on summertime microwave brightness temperatures and sea-ice concentrations, The Cryosphere, 10, 2217-2239, doi:10.5194/tc-10-2217-2016, 2016.

Kern, S., B. Ozsoy-Cicek, and A. P. Worby. Antarctic sea-ice thickness retrieval from ICESat: Inter-comparison of different approaches. Remote Sensing special issue about “Sea ice remote sensing and analysis”, 2016 8(7), 538, doi:10.3390/rs8070538 

Khvorostovsky, K. and Rampal, P.: On retrieving sea ice freeboard from ICESat laser altimeter, The Cryosphere, 10, 2329-2346, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-2329-2016, 2016.

Schwegmann, S., Rinne, E., Ricker, R., Hendricks, S., and Helm, V.: About the consistency between Envisat and CryoSat-2 radar freeboard retrieval over Antarctic sea ice, The Cryosphere, 10, 1415-1425, doi:10.5194/tc-10-1415-2016, 2016.

Tonboe, R. T., Eastwood, S., Lavergne, T., Sørensen, A. M., Rathmann, N., Dybkjær, G., Pedersen, L. T., Høyer, J. L., and Kern, S.: The EUMETSAT sea ice concentration climate data record, The Cryosphere, 10, 2275-2290, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-2275-2016, 2016.

Kern, S., Khvorostovsky, K., Skourup, H., Rinne, E., Parsakhoo, Z. S., Djepa, V., Wadhams, P., and Sandven, S.: The impact of snow depth, snow density and ice density on sea ice thickness retrieval from satellite radar altimetry: results from the ESA-CCI Sea Ice ECV Project Round Robin Exercise, The Cryosphere, 9, 37-52, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-9-37-2015, 2015.

Ivanova, N., Pedersen, L. T., Tonboe, R. T., Kern, S., Heygster, G., Lavergne, T., Sørensen, A., Saldo, R., Dybkjær, G., Brucker, L., and Shokr, M.: Inter-comparison and evaluation of sea ice algorithms: towards further identification of challenges and optimal approach using passive microwave observations, The Cryosphere, 9, 1797-1817, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-9-1797-2015, 2015.