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Article Dans Une Revue The Cryosphere Année : 2024

Assessing sea ice microwave emissivity up to submillimeter waves from airborne and satellite observations

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Upcoming submillimeter wave satellite missions require an improved understanding of sea ice emissivity to separate atmospheric and surface microwave signals under dry polar conditions. This work investigates hectometerscale observations of airborne sea ice emissivity between 89 and 340 GHz, combined with high-resolution visual imagery from two Arctic airborne field campaigns that took place in summer 2017 and spring 2019 northwest of Svalbard, Norway. Using k-means clustering, we identify four distinct sea ice emissivity spectra that occur predominantly across multiyear ice, first-year ice, young ice, and nilas. Nilas features the highest emissivity, and multiyear ice features the lowest emissivity among the clusters. Each cluster exhibits similar nadir emissivity distributions from 183 to 340 GHz. To relate hectometer-scale airborne measurements to kilometerscale satellite footprints, we quantify the reduction in the variability of airborne emissivity as footprint size increases. At 340 GHz, the emissivity interquartile range decreases by almost half when moving from the hectometer scale to a footprint of 16 km, typical of satellite instruments. Furthermore, we collocate the airborne observations with polar-orbiting satellite observations. After resampling, the absolute relative bias between airborne and satellite emissivities at similar channels lies below 3 %. Additionally, spectral variations in emissivity at nadir on the satellite scale are low, with slightly decreasing emissivity from 183 to 243 GHz, which occurs for all hectometer-scale clusters except those predominantly composed of multiyear ice. Our results will enable the development of microwave retrievals and assimilation over sea ice in current and future satellite missions, such as the Ice Cloud Imager (ICI) and EUMETSAT Polar System -Sterna (EPS-Sterna).

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hal-04787267 , version 1 (17-11-2024)

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Nils Risse, Mario Mech, Catherine Prigent, Gunnar Spreen, Susanne Crewell. Assessing sea ice microwave emissivity up to submillimeter waves from airborne and satellite observations. The Cryosphere, 2024, 18, pp.4137 - 4163. ⟨10.5194/tc-18-4137-2024⟩. ⟨hal-04787267⟩
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