English
 
Privacy Policy Disclaimer
  Advanced SearchBrowse

Item

ITEM ACTIONSEXPORT
Add to Basket
  Local TagsRelease HistoryDetailsSummary

Released
Conference Paper

Sea Ice-thickness product iNter-comparison eXerciSe – The ESA SIN’XS project

Authors

Da Silva,  Elodie
IUGG 2023, General Assemblies, 1 General, International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG), External Organizations;

Haas,  Christian
IUGG 2023, General Assemblies, 1 General, International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG), External Organizations;

Fleury,  Sara
IUGG 2023, General Assemblies, 1 General, International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG), External Organizations;

Hendricks,  Stefan
IUGG 2023, General Assemblies, 1 General, International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG), External Organizations;

Paul,  Stephan
IUGG 2023, General Assemblies, 1 General, International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG), External Organizations;

Tsamados,  Michel
IUGG 2023, General Assemblies, 1 General, International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG), External Organizations;

Munesa,  Eric
IUGG 2023, General Assemblies, 1 General, International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG), External Organizations;

Pastor,  Javier
IUGG 2023, General Assemblies, 1 General, International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG), External Organizations;

External Ressource
No external resources are shared
Fulltext (public)
There are no public fulltexts stored in GFZpublic
Supplementary Material (public)
There is no public supplementary material available
Citation

Da Silva, E., Haas, C., Fleury, S., Hendricks, S., Paul, S., Tsamados, M., Munesa, E., Pastor, J. (2023): Sea Ice-thickness product iNter-comparison eXerciSe – The ESA SIN’XS project, XXVIII General Assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) (Berlin 2023).
https://doi.org/10.57757/IUGG23-3974


Cite as: https://gfzpublic.gfz-potsdam.de/pubman/item/item_5019859
Abstract
The SIN’XS project is a three-year activity (May 2022 – May 2025) funded by ESA in the frame of the Polar Science Cluster. In light of rapid changes of the Arctic and Antarctic sea ice cover, continued and improved observations, understanding, and predictions of its thickness are particularly important for a range of fields from climate studies to offshore operations in ice. Systematic and accurate ice thickness observations are now available from several satellite missions. However, they differ in used processing algorithms and assumptions, temporal and spatial coverage and resolution, and applicability to stakeholder needs like modelling and assimilation, numerical weather prediction, and ship routing. These differences between products have so far complicated the consistent use of the various data products and there is little consensus about Arctic and Antarctic Sea ice volume variability and change. The Sea Ice-thickness product iNter-comparison eXerciSe (SIN’XS) will identify some of these gaps by carrying out in-depth intercomparisons of a wide range of satellite ice thickness products from altimetry and other methods, in close collaboration with an international community of scientific and operational sea ice experts, and in partnership with the WMO Global Cryosphere Watch (GCW). It will develop joint protocols for the intercomparison of ice thickness products and their validation, based on established approaches from the QA4EO project and by further developing a framework for Fiducial Reference Measurements (FRMs). SIN’XS will develop an online system to engage the community with data submission and to support scientific analysis of the data sets and intercomparisons.