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Validation of EOS Aqua AMSR Sea Ice Products for East AntarcticaThis paper presents results from AMSR-E validation activities during a collaborative international cruise onboard the RV Aurora Australis to the East Antarctic sea ice zone (64-65 deg.S, 110-120 deg.E) in the early Austral spring of 2003. The validation strategy entailed an IS-day survey of the statistical characteristics of sea ice and snowcover over a Lagrangian grid 100 x 50 km in size (demarcated by 9 drifting ice beacons) i.e. at a scale representative of Ah4SR pixels. Ice conditions ranged h m consolidated first-year ice to a large polynya offshore from Casey Base. Data sets collected include: snow depth and snow-ice interface temperatures on 24 (?) randomly-selected floes in grid cells within a 10 x 50 km area (using helicopters); detailed snow and ice measurements at 13 dedicated ice stations, one of which lasted for 4 days; time-series measurements of snow temperature and thickness at selected sites; 8 aerial photography and thermal-IR radiometer flights; other satellite products (SAR, AVHRR, MODIS, MISR, ASTER and Envisat MERIS); ice drift data; and ancillary meteorological (ship-based, meteorological buoys, twice-daily radiosondes). These data are applied to a validation of standard AMSR-E ice concentration, snowcover thickness and ice-temperature products. In addition, a validation is carried out of ice-surface skin temperature products h m the NOAA AVHRR and EOS MODIS datasets.
Document ID
20040079837
Acquisition Source
Goddard Space Flight Center
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Massom, Rob
(Tasmania Univ. Hobart, Australia)
Lytle, Vicky
(ACE Australia)
Allison, Ian
(ACE Australia)
Worby, Tony
(ACE Australia)
Markus, Thorsten
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Scambos, Ted
(Colorado Univ. Boulder, CO, United States)
Haran, Terry
(Colorado Univ. Boulder, CO, United States)
Enomoto, Hiro
(Kitami Inst. of Tech. Hokkaido, Japan)
Tateyama, Kazu
(Hokkaido Univ. Sapporo, Japan)
Pfaffling, Andi
(Alfred-Wegener-Inst. for Polar Research Bremerhaven, Germany)
Date Acquired
August 21, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 2004
Subject Category
Meteorology And Climatology
Meeting Information
Meeting: IGARSS 04
Location: Anchorage, AK
Country: United States
Start Date: September 20, 2004
End Date: September 24, 2004
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
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