Title :
Melt pond coverage statistics from classified satellite data
Author :
Fetterer, Florence ; Untersteine, Norbert
Author_Institution :
Cooperative Inst. for Res. in Environ. Sci., Colorado Univ., Boulder, CO, USA
Abstract :
Melt pond development over one summer in the Beaufort Sea was monitored with high resolution satellite data. These data resolve individual melt ponds, and were used to obtain pond coverage measurements for ice floes. If pond coverage is known, floe albedo can be estimated. Pond coverage ranged from 30 to 40% at the beginning of melt to about 15% at freezeup. The range in coverage from floe to floe on any day was about 10%
Keywords :
oceanographic techniques; remote sensing; sea ice; Arctic Ocean; Beaufort Sea; albedo; classified satellite data; coverage statistics; ice floe; ice melting; measurement technique; melt pond; ocean; optical imaging; remote sensing; sea ice; summer; Atmospheric measurements; Ice surface; Monitoring; Ocean temperature; Satellites; Sea measurements; Sea surface; Snow; Solar radiation; Statistics;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium Proceedings, 1998. IGARSS '98. 1998 IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Seattle, WA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4403-0
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.1998.703706
