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ASPB AND CIMSS WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK ENDING SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

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Paper Published on Intercomparison of Satellite-derived Sea Ice Thickness: A paper titled "Comparison of sea ice thickness from satellites, aircraft, and PIOMAS data" was recently published in the journal Remote Sensing (2016, 8, 713, doi:10.3390/rs8090713). The paper, by Xuanji Wang (Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies, CIMSS), Jeff Key (STAR), Ron Kwok (NASA JPL), and Jinlun Zhang (University of Washington), compares Arctic sea ice thickness from the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) Polar Pathfinder-extended (APP-x) using the algorithm developed for the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer (VIIRS), the ICESat laser altimeter, the CryoSat-2 radar altimeter, the IceBridge aircraft campaign laser altimeter and snow radar, the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) sensor, and the Pan-Arctic Ice Ocean Modeling and Assimilation System (PIOMAS) ice model. All satellite-retrieved ice thickness products and PIOMAS overestimate the thickness of thin ice (1 m or less) compared to IceBridge. The spatial correlation between the datasets indicates that APP-x and PIOMAS are the most similar, followed by APP-x and CryoSat-2. (J. Key, E/RA2, 608-263-2605, jkey@ssec.wisc.edu; X. Wang, CIMSS, 608-261-1390)

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