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Re: AMSR2 Snow & Ice Volume/Thickness
« Reply #50 on: March 07, 2019, 02:12:18 PM »
Only moderate increases in the AMSR2 Snow & Ice Volume. The St. Lawrence and Sea of Okhotsk ice
is too thin affect the overal numbers much.

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Re: AMSR2 Snow & Ice Volume/Thickness
« Reply #51 on: April 02, 2019, 11:16:09 AM »
Only a moderate thickness increase and a complete volume stall in the second half of March, probably caused by the Bering Sea and Gulf of St Lawrence melt out.

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Re: AMSR2 Snow & Ice Volume/Thickness
« Reply #52 on: April 02, 2019, 03:24:17 PM »
<snippage>Full size images and February animation at:
https://cryospherecomputing.tk/SIT
Thanks for this Tealight. I carelessly missed the February animation. Can I download it from somewhere?

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Re: AMSR2 Snow & Ice Volume/Thickness
« Reply #53 on: April 03, 2019, 12:49:18 AM »
<snippage>Full size images and February animation at:
https://cryospherecomputing.tk/SIT
Thanks for this Tealight. I carelessly missed the February animation. Can I download it from somewhere?

Sorry, but to keep the update process simple I only create one gif file per month which always replaces the old one.

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Re: AMSR2 Snow & Ice Volume/Thickness
« Reply #54 on: May 03, 2019, 11:29:48 AM »
Another month of low overall gain, but above average thickness.

Full size images and April animation at:
https://cryospherecomputing.tk/SIT
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Re: AMSR2 Snow & Ice Volume/Thickness
« Reply #55 on: June 02, 2019, 01:01:30 AM »
Volume continued below the mean, but thickness went up at the end of the month. It looks like the Beaufort gyre compacted sea ice against eastern Siberia and Hudson Bay ice was compacted against the southern coast.

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Re: AMSR2 Snow & Ice Volume/Thickness
« Reply #56 on: June 02, 2019, 01:46:06 AM »
Tealight, I have to say that Avatar of yours, Nico Sun, has got the gift, and boy, doesn't he use it well.

Stunning stuff. It will be fascinating to compare it with the output from PIOMAS, or has Nico got it in hand already?

No chance of numerical data in .csv format?

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Re: AMSR2 Snow & Ice Volume/Thickness
« Reply #57 on: June 02, 2019, 02:18:27 AM »
Thanks Tealight! Great stuff and very much appreciated!  :)

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Re: AMSR2 Snow & Ice Volume/Thickness
« Reply #58 on: July 02, 2019, 08:41:19 PM »
Volume and thickness crashed to lowest during the second half of June. In the first half melt was apparently below average. The gif shows the Beaufort gyre in action transporting ice into the melt zone.

One should keep in mind that the product doesn't try to calculate actual ice thickness, but average thickness per ice covered gridcell. If you have an even 50/50 split of water and ice than the gridcell thickness is just 50% of the ice floes.

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Re: AMSR2 Snow & Ice Volume/Thickness
« Reply #59 on: July 02, 2019, 09:17:10 PM »
Wow. It's not often that the term "crashed" feels like an understatement.

It looks like a 1/3 reduction in volume in 3 weeks if I'm reading the chart correctly.

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Re: AMSR2 Snow & Ice Volume/Thickness
« Reply #60 on: July 03, 2019, 02:58:43 AM »
A question on the attached gif if you don't mind.

I'm quite surprised at the dramatic reduction in volume of the ice in the CAB north of Ellesmere and the CAA.

In the beginning of June, there is quite a bit of ice pack which is colored white (350+ cm) and that all seems to lose half of it's volume in June.

Keeping an eye on the weather this past month, I was caught by surprise that this area would change so much.

Any comment related to the root cause of change in this region would be welcome.


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Re: AMSR2 Snow & Ice Volume/Thickness
« Reply #61 on: July 03, 2019, 03:13:09 AM »
It's probably related to the appearance of melt ponds in the CAB. Please bear in mind the limitations of the instrument making these measurements.

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Re: AMSR2 Snow & Ice Volume/Thickness
« Reply #62 on: July 03, 2019, 03:41:09 AM »
Thanks Oren.

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Re: AMSR2 Snow & Ice Volume/Thickness
« Reply #63 on: August 02, 2019, 10:03:48 AM »
Volume and thickness were record low until the second half of the month and then lost slightly out to 2012 and 2016.

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Re: AMSR2 Snow & Ice Volume/Thickness
« Reply #64 on: September 02, 2019, 06:54:43 PM »
Volume and thickness are the same league as 2012 and 2016, but the minimum might have already happened.

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