• A 10-year record of Arctic summer sea ice freeboard from CryoSat-2 

      Dawson, Geoffrey; Landy, Jack Christopher; Tsamados, Michel; Komarov, Alexander S.; Howell, Stephen; Heorten, Harold; Krumpen, Thomas (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-10-29)
      Satellite observations of pan-Arctic sea ice thickness have so far been constrained to winter months. For radar altimeters, conventional methods cannot differentiate leads from meltwater ponds that accumulate at the ice surface in summer months, which is a critical step in the ice thickness calculation. Here, we use over 350 optical and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images from the summer months ...
    • Coastal Polynya Disrupts the Acoustic Backscatter Diurnal Signal Over the Eastern Laptev Sea Shelf 

      Dmitrenko, Igor A.; Petrusevich, Vladislav; Kosobokova, Ksenia; Komarov, Alexander S.; Bouchard, Caroline; Geoffroy, Maxime; Koldunov, Nikolay V.; Babb, David G.; Kirillov, Sergey A.; Barber, David G. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-12-16)
      The diel vertical migration (DVM) of zooplankton is one of the largest species migrations to occur globally and is a key driver of regional ecosystems and the marine carbon pump. The dramatic changes in the Arctic environment in recent years, mainly associated with sea-ice decline, may have wide significance for the Arctic shelf ecosystems including DVM. Observations have revealed the occurrence of ...
    • A year-round satellite sea-ice thickness record from CryoSat-2 

      Landy, Jack Christopher; Dawson, Geoffrey; Tsamados, Michel; Bushuk, Mitchell; Stroeve, Julienne C.; Howell, Stephen; Krumpen, Thomas; Babb, David G.; Komarov, Alexander S.; Heorton, Harold; Belter, H. Jakob; Aksenov, Yevgeny (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-09-14)
      Arctic sea ice is diminishing with climate warming at a rate unmatched for at least 1,000 years. As the receding ice pack raises commercial interest in the Arctic, it has become more variable and mobile, which increases safety risks to maritime users. Satellite observations of sea-ice thickness are currently unavailable during the crucial melt period from May to September, when they would be most ...