New Way to Estimate Sea Ice Thickness
Scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey and the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, have developed a new way to estimate the thickness of sea ice (New Method to Estimate Sea Ice Thickness).
The method uses a new modeling approach--the only model based entirely on historical observations--"uses sea ice motion data to follow parcels of ice backward in time at monthly intervals for up to 3 years while accumulating a history of solar radiation and air temperature to which the ice was exposed."
The report shares information on Arctic sea ice data from 1982 to 2003 that was collected by this new method.
