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

Marko Mäkynen; Jari Haapala; Giuseppe Aulicino; Beena Balan-Sarojini; Magdalena Balmaseda; Alexandru  Gegiuc; Fanny Girard-Ardhuin; Stefan Hendricks; Georg Heygster; Larysa Istomina; Lars Kaleschke; Juha Karvonen; Thomas Krumpen; Mikko Lensu; Michael Mayer; Flavio Parmiggiani; Robert Ricker; Eero Rinne; Amelie Schmitt; Markku Similä; Steffen Tietsche; Rasmus Tonboe; Peter Wadhams; Mai Winstrup; Hao Zuo

doi:10.3390/rs12071214

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

Marko Mäkynen
, Jari Haapala
, Giuseppe Aulicino
, Beena Balan-Sarojini
, Magdalena Balmaseda
, Alexandru Gegiuc
, Fanny Girard-Ardhuin
, Stefan Hendricks
, Georg Heygster
, Larysa Istomina
, Lars Kaleschke
, Juha Karvonen
, Thomas Krumpen
, Mikko Lensu
, Michael Mayer
, Flavio Parmiggiani
, Robert Ricker
, Eero Rinne
, Amelie Schmitt
, Markku Similä

Steffen Tietsche, Rasmus Tonboe, Peter Wadhams, Mai Winstrup, Hao Zuo

Department of Meteorology and Geophysics

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Abstract

The 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.

Original language	English
Article number	1214
Number of pages	20
Journal	Remote Sensing
Volume	12
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12071214
Publication status	Published - 10 Apr 2020

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

105204 Climatology

Keywords

ALBEDO RETRIEVAL
ALGORITHMS
Arctic
IDENTIFICATION
MELT POND FRACTION
MERIS DATA
SCATTEROMETER
SNOW DEPTH
TEMPERATURE
THICKNESS RETRIEVAL
VALIDATION
forecasting
remote sensing
sea ice
Forecasting
Remote sensing
Sea ice

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Mäkynen, M., Haapala, J., Aulicino, G., Balan-Sarojini, B., Balmaseda, M., Gegiuc, A., Girard-Ardhuin, F., Hendricks, S., Heygster, G., Istomina, L., Kaleschke, L., Karvonen, J., Krumpen, T., Lensu, M., Mayer, M., Parmiggiani, F., Ricker, R., Rinne, E., Schmitt, A., ... Zuo, H. (2020). 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. Remote Sensing, 12(7), Article 1214. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12071214

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