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Re: Home brew AMSR2 extent & area calculation
« Reply #3350 on: June 15, 2018, 06:44:26 PM »
Seems the June melt pond fraction may be higher this year than it's been for a while.
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« Reply #3351 on: June 15, 2018, 07:16:16 PM »
How did the June melt pond fraction look like back in 2007-2008, 2010-2012 and 2016?

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Re: Home brew AMSR2 extent & area calculation
« Reply #3352 on: June 15, 2018, 07:53:27 PM »
Wipneus' graphs based on JAXA AMSR2 data suggest that surface melting has been below average in the last few weeks, compared to previous years.

Descending orbit:


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https://sites.google.com/site/arctischepinguin/home/sea-ice-extent-area/grf/jaxa-amsr2-melt-extent-ratioA.png
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Re: Home brew AMSR2 extent & area calculation
« Reply #3353 on: June 17, 2018, 11:58:10 AM »
As expected the fast ice has reappeared in the Laptev Sea. The "torching" expands to the ESS, where some curious scribbles can now be seen. Frozen leads was the best explanation if I remember correctly.

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« Reply #3354 on: June 17, 2018, 03:23:47 PM »
Thank you Wipneus. I consider your animated images of regions in the Arctic some of the most informative posts when it comes to tracking the melt season. Don't feel the need to match the volume of posts you have done in the past but occasionally zeroing in on regions of interest or rapid change is very much appreciated.

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Re: Home brew AMSR2 extent & area calculation
« Reply #3355 on: June 21, 2018, 06:45:07 PM »
Update of the Jaxa AMSR2 sea ice thickness/melt animation. During the melting season thickness is rather without meaning, but the melting area should be interesting.

Here I combine the Ascending and Descending data: in melting if detected in either, else average thicknesses.

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Re: Home brew AMSR2 extent & area calculation
« Reply #3356 on: July 05, 2018, 06:00:37 PM »
Area with melt has increased considerable (>70%) as the Jaxa AMSR2 thickness/melt data shows. Only 2012 and 2015 had a bigger ratio.


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Re: Home brew AMSR2 extent & area calculation
« Reply #3357 on: July 05, 2018, 06:03:39 PM »
For comparison here are 2012 and 2015 for the same data.

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« Reply #3358 on: July 05, 2018, 09:42:39 PM »
Area with melt has increased considerable (>70%) as the Jaxa AMSR2 thickness/melt data shows. Only 2012 and 2015 had a bigger ratio.

Concerning! In addition, your animations show the melt to dry ratio increasing.  Climate Reanalyzer has the current low pressure system moving to and then sitting over the CAB/CAA region over the next few days, so that shrinking green area may be somewhat protected for a little while, but there could well be considerable insolation elsewhere. 
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« Reply #3359 on: July 06, 2018, 05:15:48 AM »
Area with melt has increased considerable (>70%) as the Jaxa AMSR2 thickness/melt data shows. Only 2012 and 2015 had a bigger ratio.

Concerning! In addition, your animations show the melt to dry ratio increasing.  Climate Reanalyzer has the current low pressure system moving to and then sitting over the CAB/CAA region over the next few days, so that shrinking green area may be somewhat protected for a little while, but there could well be considerable insolation elsewhere.
The forecasts also have a lot of precipitation falling - there was considerable rain over the Laptev, ESS and across the Chukchi into the Beaufort.  There will be more waves coming in, and I'm sure that's contributing to the reduced albedo we are seeing over those regions.
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Re: Home brew AMSR2 extent & area calculation
« Reply #3360 on: July 06, 2018, 01:29:31 PM »
Ice concentration in the CAA "recovers" after an enthusiastic start in first half of June. In the regional area graph several ( if not most) other years show similar behavior.

In the animation watch the Nares arch collapse.

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Re: Home brew AMSR2 extent & area calculation
« Reply #3361 on: July 06, 2018, 03:06:17 PM »
Ice concentration in the CAA "recovers" after an enthusiastic start in first half of June. In the regional area graph several ( if not most) other years show similar behavior.

In the animation watch the Nares arch collapse.

Is that the sort of thing the algorithm would tend to show for a progression of dry snow>damp snow>damp ice as the surface?


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Re: Home brew AMSR2 extent & area calculation
« Reply #3362 on: July 09, 2018, 07:10:45 PM »
Highest surface melt ratio for the date of all years in the Jaxa/ADS thickness/melting data.


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« Reply #3363 on: July 09, 2018, 08:11:20 PM »
Highest surface melt ratio for the date of all years in the Jaxa/ADS thickness/melting data.

Please explain.

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« Reply #3364 on: July 09, 2018, 08:45:41 PM »
DR, I'm not sure which part you are asking about so I'll provide a (hopefully correct) full response. JAXA is calculating which parts of the ice surface are in current surface melt conditions (i.e. the ice top is "wet"), using data provided by the AMSR2 satellite. This is shown in the map Wipneus provided. Wipneus is calculating the percent of the surface in melting conditions out of the total surface, this is shown in the chart he provided. The black line represents this year's percentage, which is currently slightly above 90% and the highest of the years for which data is available (since mid-2012).

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« Reply #3365 on: July 09, 2018, 08:57:01 PM »
DR, I'm not sure which part you are asking about so I'll provide a (hopefully correct) full response. JAXA is calculating which parts of the ice surface are in current surface melt conditions (i.e. the ice top is "wet"), using data provided by the AMSR2 satellite. This is shown in the map Wipneus provided. Wipneus is calculating the percent of the surface in melting conditions out of the total surface, this is shown in the chart he provided. The black line represents this year's percentage, which is currently slightly above 90% and the highest of the years for which data is available (since mid-2012).

I sort of gathered that of the ice that is still there this is a whole lot that is currently melting on the surface, but I have no clue what that is trying to tell me.  I can see where ice melting on the surface for a long time means something, but I don't know what ice melting at the moment tells me.

With the Greenland melt, the number of days in the picture tells me a lot, but I never understood if the melt today told me anything....it is the same way here.

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Re: Home brew AMSR2 extent & area calculation
« Reply #3366 on: July 09, 2018, 09:12:33 PM »
The data is what it is and each can make their own conclusion. But I would assume that even a few days of top melt can lower albedo significantly. On the other hand to actually make the ice thinner the effect is cumulative and depends on how many days the ice spent in melt conditions. But in any case the chart shows general conditions in the arctic right now, something which is interesting by itself.

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« Reply #3367 on: July 09, 2018, 09:27:49 PM »
The data is what it is and each can make their own conclusion. But I would assume that even a few days of top melt can lower albedo significantly. On the other hand to actually make the ice thinner the effect is cumulative and depends on how many days the ice spent in melt conditions. But in any case the chart shows general conditions in the arctic right now, something which is interesting by itself.

Oh!  I think you are telling me that top melt now makes more melt later easier.  I can sort of understand that.  I guess it is the same with Greenland, really....though there you have a mountain to divide states.

It is still not an easy metric to follow....


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« Reply #3368 on: July 09, 2018, 09:32:44 PM »
The data is what it is and each can make their own conclusion. But I would assume that even a few days of top melt can lower albedo significantly. On the other hand to actually make the ice thinner the effect is cumulative and depends on how many days the ice spent in melt conditions. But in any case the chart shows general conditions in the arctic right now, something which is interesting by itself.

Oh!  I think you are telling me that top melt now makes more melt later easier.  I can sort of understand that.  I guess it is the same with Greenland, really....though there you have a mountain to divide states.

It is still not an easy metric to follow....

I agree - the implications are not necessarily intuitive.  One thing I find compelling about it is how it stands in contrast with the weather conditions which based on previously observed outcomes are highly conducive for preserving the ice. 

The contrasting forces suggest to me a system which is in a very chaotic state.
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« Reply #3369 on: July 09, 2018, 10:20:21 PM »

I sort of gathered that of the ice that is still there this is a whole lot that is currently melting on the surface, but I have no clue what that is trying to tell me.  I can see where ice melting on the surface for a long time means something, but I don't know what ice melting at the moment tells me.
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Re: Home brew AMSR2 extent & area calculation
« Reply #3370 on: July 10, 2018, 12:07:26 AM »
it certainly did not benefit the ice in 2012 to spend so many days at the top of Wip's melt ratio graph . Will be an interesting measure to follow in the coming weeks and years .

Any scale to the colour scheme on the JAXA thickness map ?   b.c.
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Re: Home brew AMSR2 extent & area calculation
« Reply #3371 on: July 10, 2018, 09:37:27 AM »
I agree the melt ratio does not fall into well established metrics. Jaxa is not very clear about it and suggest its use is "for the usages of research and validation of algorithms"
https://ads.nipr.ac.jp/vishop/#/extent

There was a presentation on the web that showed how the algorithm was developed but the link is dead now. I try to attach it to this message as it is a pdf.
[ EDIT: I found the new link: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-ByVbb5sQrDN1JvN3pvRkMwYlU ]

In the mean time I use the data as Jaxa suggests. The observation is that 2018 had a low melt ratio earlier in the year, that has now reversed. The theory says that early onset of melting is important for ice loss, so this is probably not going to catastrophic for the ice.
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« Reply #3372 on: July 10, 2018, 10:04:44 AM »
Oh there are no scales for the thickness and melt colors. I will provide them as soon as I can. In the mean time, see attached.

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Re: Home brew AMSR2 extent & area calculation
« Reply #3373 on: July 14, 2018, 08:52:34 AM »
Nearing a triple century (-276k) extent drop, more than half in the Hudson region very little in the Arctic Basin. Some Hudson ice may rebound in the coming days (it always does), but the trend is clear.
Update 20180713.


You will find the updated graphs in the top post

The details (in 1000 km2):


Extent:
   Central Arctic Basin       East Siberian Sea              Laptev Sea
                   -3.1                   -13.0                    -0.4
               Kara Sea             Barents Sea           Greenland Sea
                  -16.0                    -2.8                   -27.8
Baffin/Newfoundland Bay            St. Lawrence              Hudson Bay
                  -12.4                     0.0                  -142.2
   Canadian Archipelago            Beaufort Sea             Chukchi Sea
                  -31.6                    -4.4                   -23.4
             Bering Sea          Sea of Okhotsk            Total Extent
                    0.2                     0.6                  -276.2

Area:
   Central Arctic Basin       East Siberian Sea              Laptev Sea
                   -3.9                    -6.0                    -5.0
               Kara Sea             Barents Sea           Greenland Sea
                    2.2                    -0.4                   -27.9
Baffin/Newfoundland Bay            St. Lawrence              Hudson Bay
                   23.9                     0.0                   -82.9
   Canadian Archipelago            Beaufort Sea             Chukchi Sea
                  -49.8                   -24.9                   -39.5
             Bering Sea          Sea of Okhotsk              Total Area
                    0.2                     0.5                  -213.5


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« Reply #3374 on: July 14, 2018, 01:36:09 PM »
that's the kind of free fall i expect more often and in more places in the near future because there a quite a few places where is is thin and fragmented and given the right conditions it can happen this way all over the place.

considering that Kara is facing a similar situation right now, the next candidate IMO would be beaufort. southern beaufort is permanently fed with fresh and weak ice from the northern parts and it's going to melt out there, only that once the fountain will be either depleted, gone for good itself.

i posted on the idea a few days ago taking the barrows web cam as a source of observation. the bay was ice free already and now gets fed with fragments that melt out day after day, at least that's how i see it.

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« Reply #3375 on: July 14, 2018, 05:03:25 PM »
I agree the Kara has begun a period of aggressive melt and will melt out entirely by the end of the melt season which has been the case for the past 6 years. The Kara Sea melt can have no impact on achieving a new minimum.

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Re: Home brew AMSR2 extent & area calculation
« Reply #3376 on: July 29, 2018, 10:42:16 AM »
Today summary for the totals extent and area:

Update 20180728.

Extent: -109.2 (+38k vs 2017, +84k vs 2016, -113k vs 2015, -428k vs 2014, -221k vs 2013, +274k vs 2012)
Area: +5.7 (+23k vs 2017, +205k vs 2016, +3k vs 2015, -576k vs 2014, -360k vs 2013, +136k vs 2012)
 


2018 is well (over 3 centuries in either extent or area) below 2013 and 2014. Nearly 3 centuries above 2012 extent. The 2012 source is (UH) SSMIS, AMSR2 data does not start until August, so has some additional uncertainty.

Attached is an animation of the (North) Greenland Sea comparing 2018 with 2013 which has the lowest extent for end of July. Sea Ice looks rapidly melting, and more of the fast ice has become mobile.
 
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« Reply #3377 on: August 10, 2018, 05:21:00 PM »
I updated my 1 year average extent graph using these nsidc data ftp://sidads.colorado.edu/DATASETS/NOAA/G02135/north/daily/data/

It is a little bit out of topic at this time of the year, but I find interesting that even if we don't break absolute records right now, on yearly average we are quite low, the record being for the time frame 2016 03 29 to 2017 03 28 at 10.11361.

Values are in 10^6 sq km.
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« Reply #3378 on: August 10, 2018, 05:45:23 PM »
Hi etienne, some comments on your interesting chart:
* Since you use NSIDC data I think this belongs in the sea ice extent and area data thread, as this thread is dedicated to AMSR2 data. I suggest to move it there.
*  Why not update the chart all the way to the present? I assume it's a trailing 12 month average.
* Can you post the same for sea ice area? (Just don't be confused by the pole hole issue)

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« Reply #3379 on: August 10, 2018, 10:14:19 PM »
No problem, it is now posted in the other thread. Just that end 2016, I used to post it here.

It's a trailing 12 month average, didn't know the English word to describe such a graph. Thanks for the info.

The graph goes all the way to August 8th, 2018. It starts December 31st, 1989, which means that the datas used start on January 1st, 1989. There where too many holes in the dataset before that date to make it easy to use.

I could do it easily fot the sea ice area, just that I don't know where to find the dataset. If somebody provides a link... Jim Hunt provided the link to the dataset for this graph. A trailing average when you have the data in a csv format is just so easy to do.

In 2016, I also calculated a trend, and that was much more work. I gave up the trend concept because the general direction is easy to check, and since we don't know if it is linear, parabolic, exponential ... it doesn't bring much more information than telling the reader that I can calculate a linear trend line.


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« Reply #3380 on: August 12, 2018, 11:17:53 PM »
Attached is an animation of the (North) Greenland Sea comparing 2018 with 2013 which has the lowest extent for end of July. Sea Ice looks rapidly melting, and more of the fast ice has become mobile.
Do you offer a permanent link for the Greenland Extent png ?

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« Reply #3381 on: August 15, 2018, 08:14:44 PM »
Has there been any word on what's happened to the Uni-Bremen site?

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« Reply #3382 on: August 15, 2018, 08:36:25 PM »
Has there been any word on what's happened to the Uni-Bremen site?
I am sorry but I have no idea. I failed this morning to look at their latest information. And tonight it is still off-line. What I am very sure about is that there is no holiday in Bremen today.
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« Reply #3383 on: August 15, 2018, 10:11:28 PM »
Has there been any word on what's happened to the Uni-Bremen site?
I am sorry but I have no idea. I failed this morning to look at their latest information. And tonight it is still off-line. What I am very sure about is that there is no holiday in Bremen today.
No JAXA extent data since the 11th.
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« Reply #3384 on: August 16, 2018, 03:35:20 AM »
I created an account here:
https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search
Searched on cryosphere->sea ice->extent and AMSR2,
there is a data set:
AMSR2 DAILY L3 12.5 KM TB AND SEA ICE CONCENTRATION POLAR GRIDS V0
The latest file can be displayed, it is this one, from today:
AMSR_2_L3_SeaIce12km_P00_20180815.he5

I don't have the software to display it myself. I'm not sure why other sites are not updating.
Hope that helps.


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Re: Home brew AMSR2 extent & area calculation
« Reply #3385 on: April 22, 2019, 03:42:48 PM »
Large area drop in Greenland Sea Region today:

torching in Fram Strait and above.

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Re: Home brew AMSR2 extent & area calculation
« Reply #3386 on: May 28, 2019, 03:07:44 PM »
Animation of the Arctic Basin (with exaggerated contrast) sea ice concentration compared with 2016.

Click to start.

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Re: Home brew AMSR2 extent & area calculation
« Reply #3387 on: May 28, 2019, 04:15:07 PM »
Animation of the Arctic Basin (with exaggerated contrast)

Thanks very much Wipneus. Should we expect regular updates from you now that things are warming up in the Arctic, both literally and metaphorically?
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« Reply #3388 on: May 29, 2019, 01:37:01 AM »
Animation of the Arctic Basin (with exaggerated contrast)

Thanks very much Wipneus. Should we expect regular updates from you now that things are warming up in the Arctic, both literally and metaphorically?
Indeed, great stuff....

And DANG, that's an awful lot of open water in the Laptev!
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« Reply #3389 on: May 29, 2019, 02:01:41 AM »
Thanks Wipneus, very helpful indeed!


The big question: how do we interpret the dark areas - as indicated below?

Cloud artifacts &/or melting &/or rainwater?
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Re: Home brew AMSR2 extent & area calculation
« Reply #3390 on: May 29, 2019, 03:46:46 AM »
Animation of the Arctic Basin (with exaggerated contrast) sea ice concentration compared with 2016.

Thank you! Well, 2019 is in trouble...

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Re: Home brew AMSR2 extent & area calculation
« Reply #3391 on: June 01, 2019, 08:49:17 AM »
Thanks very much Wipneus. Should we expect regular updates from you now that things are warming up in the Arctic, both literally and metaphorically?

Do not hold your breath, to much other responsibilities. I will post when I notice something post-worthy.

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Re: Home brew AMSR2 extent & area calculation
« Reply #3392 on: June 01, 2019, 08:53:05 AM »
Thanks Wipneus, very helpful indeed!


The big question: how do we interpret the dark areas - as indicated below?

Cloud artifacts &/or melting &/or rainwater?

My interpretation : wet surface, either melting or precipitation.

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Re: Home brew AMSR2 extent & area calculation
« Reply #3393 on: June 01, 2019, 08:56:41 AM »
UH AMSR2 extent dropped -135k , Hudson Region had the biggest regional drop with -47k.

From the animation most of that is in the Hudson Strait.

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Re: Home brew AMSR2 extent & area calculation
« Reply #3394 on: June 02, 2019, 09:45:49 AM »
Wipneus, could you update the JAXA AMSR2 melt graphs on your website to include the year 2019?  Currently it's only up to 2018.  TIA.

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Re: Home brew AMSR2 extent & area calculation
« Reply #3395 on: June 02, 2019, 12:05:49 PM »
Wipneus, could you update the JAXA AMSR2 melt graphs on your website to include the year 2019?  Currently it's only up to 2018.  TIA.

Steven,

I have added 2019 to the graphs. Unfortunately I have managed to download the data only up to 22nd of May. Since then the ADS have changed their web interface again. I will have to add another flip and a loop to get it now (meaning that it will take some time).

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Re: Home brew AMSR2 extent & area calculation
« Reply #3396 on: June 02, 2019, 03:18:28 PM »
Since then the ADS have changed their web interface again. I will have to add another flip and a loop to get it now (meaning that it will take some time).

Done the required gymnastics. Should work now, updated to 31st.

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Re: Home brew AMSR2 extent & area calculation
« Reply #3397 on: July 29, 2019, 08:45:53 PM »
Wipneus - a question came up on the Melt thread relating to the attached graph:
https://sites.google.com/site/arctischepinguin/home/amsr2/grf/amsr2-area-all-cmpare.png

I was confused by the titling of this graph as 15% Area - I thought 15% threshold was used for extent based on a grid size while area relied on actual pixel counts. Am I totally confused.

Thanks for your assistance and I really appreciate all the data/analysis you provide.

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Re: Home brew AMSR2 extent & area calculation
« Reply #3398 on: July 29, 2019, 10:39:44 PM »
UCM, read this faq from NSIDC and the 15% area will be clear.
http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/faq/#area_extent
In order to emulate NSIDC area, Wipneus uses the same method, not counting area in grid cells that are below 15% concentration.
The other part of your question - I believe the pixel and the grid cell are one and the same, so it's not just counting pixels. Area is a sum of (concentration times cell size), while extent is just a sum of cell size. Both only for concentration>15%.

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Re: Home brew AMSR2 extent & area calculation
« Reply #3399 on: July 29, 2019, 11:42:47 PM »
Thanks Oren.