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Re: Piomas vs. CryoSat
« Reply #50 on: September 12, 2013, 08:45:11 AM »
Also see Joe Romm's post on this:
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/09/11/2603711/arctic-death-spiral/

Did PIOMAS also say volume was record low this spring?

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Re: Piomas vs. CryoSat
« Reply #51 on: September 12, 2013, 09:14:28 AM »
Also see Joe Romm's post on this:
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/09/11/2603711/arctic-death-spiral/

Did PIOMAS also say volume was record low this spring?

No and certainly not significantly (more than the uncertainty).

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Re: Piomas vs. CryoSat
« Reply #52 on: September 12, 2013, 11:29:37 AM »
I believe SMOS had volume 8% lower than 2012 at the end of the freezing season.
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Re: Piomas vs. CryoSat
« Reply #53 on: September 12, 2013, 02:17:58 PM »
From UniLeeds Pr Andrew Shepherd (through ThinkProgress 11092013):

“The volume of the sea ice at the end of last winter was less than 15 000 cubic km, which is lower than any other year going into summer and indicates less winter growth than usual.”

Interesting…PIOMAS in its graph has it on 21600 km3 mid April at maximum.

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Re: Piomas vs. CryoSat
« Reply #54 on: September 12, 2013, 02:46:38 PM »
Werther, the CryoSat domain is not the same as that of PIOMAS. Discussed in the beginning of this very thread.

See for instance this post, with the normal PIOMAS volume and the PIOMAS-volume-on-Cryosat-domain.

If I understand correctly, the data to compare are:

"spring"
year      Cryosat volume
2011     16.3
2012     15.9
2013     15.0
« Last Edit: September 12, 2013, 03:03:56 PM by Wipneus »

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Re: Piomas vs. CryoSat
« Reply #55 on: September 12, 2013, 04:51:55 PM »
Thanks, Wipneus,

I thought it would be something like that, Like Bering Sea, SoOchotsk cut out.
Haven't read this thread much or forgotten about the content.

Looking back, I saw your Feb map on the Cryosat domain. It cuts out a lot of other peripheral seas: the CAA, Hudson, EGS, Barentsz and Kara!
Leaving only 7.289 Mkm2. according to my CAD 'Total Arctic Ocean' map.
Not hard to guess how it arrives on 15000km3. And I remember, a lot of the PIOMAS volume at maximum came from extent growth in the Baffin/Barentsz/Kara seas.

The wait will be for Cryosat to assess the effects of this summer on coming winter's volume...

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Re: Piomas vs. CryoSat
« Reply #56 on: September 12, 2013, 05:14:57 PM »
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"spring"
year      Cryosat volume
2011     16.3
2012     15.9
2013     15.0

Ok, thanks, and what are the comparable PIOMAS-numbers, if they're available for 2013 in particular?

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Re: Piomas vs. CryoSat
« Reply #57 on: September 12, 2013, 06:25:43 PM »
I would have to compute them from the PIOMAS gridded data like I did here.

Tomorrow.

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Re: Piomas vs. CryoSat
« Reply #58 on: September 12, 2013, 08:43:14 PM »
That's great, Wipneus, thanks.

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Re: Piomas vs. CryoSat
« Reply #59 on: September 13, 2013, 07:43:34 AM »
Here you are. My estimate of IceSat domain is earlier this thread.

Year     
CryoSat2
PIOMAS
on IceSat domain
201116.315.36
201215.915.35
201315.015.21

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Re: Piomas vs. CryoSat
« Reply #60 on: September 13, 2013, 02:50:46 PM »
And what is the Cryosat volume for october/november 2012? Is it available? I can´t find the data...
Thanks  ;)

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Re: Piomas vs. CryoSat
« Reply #61 on: September 13, 2013, 03:01:13 PM »
Ok, thanks, so CryoSat and PIOMAS are getting closer in their results over these years/so far, and give almost the same number for this year's maximum. Only a little over 1% difference is way within both error/confidence ranges, as far as those have been estabilished for CryoSat (about 9% uncertainty range for PIOMAS and about 5-7% for CryoSat?).

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« Reply #62 on: September 14, 2013, 01:33:42 PM »
I believe SMOS had volume 8% lower than 2012 at the end of the freezing season.

Indeed, the interesting thing is you only get from SMOS' brightness temperature to sea ice thickness by knowing the atmosphere record (like PIOMAS), notably ice temperature. However, SMOS only works up to ~0.5m thickness. I remember the 8% figure too, but couldn't find the source, was CS2 data  already used? Nevertheless, PIOMAS having 11-13 April volume in the same ballpark makes me wonder.

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Re: Piomas vs. CryoSat
« Reply #63 on: September 14, 2013, 04:36:22 PM »
arctic.io,

I think the -8% thickness number(Cryosat April) was reported in the "Sea Ice Outlook", unfortunately NSIDC is down till Monday. I hope everyone and the servers are all right.

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Re: Piomas vs. CryoSat
« Reply #64 on: September 16, 2013, 05:54:03 PM »
What do you think about the map for october/november 2012 recently released by ESA?:



Eyeballing the maps, 2012 seems very close to 2011...  :o
(maybe my eyeballing is wrong, a pixel counting could clarify it)
Is there a bias in this Cryosat map? Or is it real? Quick recovery of the sea ice extent and thickness after the record minimum of september 2012?

In PIOMAS data, the volume doesn´t rebound above 2011 until spring 2013... Who is right?
And curiously, in april 2013, when PIOMAS volume catchs up with 2011 and 2012, Cryosat shows the opposite...  :o

« Last Edit: September 16, 2013, 06:14:00 PM by diablobanquisa »

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Re: Piomas vs. CryoSat
« Reply #65 on: September 16, 2013, 09:21:02 PM »
Diablobanquisa,

It's all just variation within the error bounds for PIOMAS, not sure what Cryosat error bounds are but I'd assume the same there. I don't know what to make of it. But last year catching up with 2011/10 winter maxima isn't a surprise, although I think it's informative. This year and last show what impacts weather can have either way on the melt.

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Re: Piomas vs. CryoSat
« Reply #66 on: September 18, 2013, 01:47:44 AM »



Sources:
Figure 5: http://imb.crrel.usace.army.mil/pdfs/kwok.ice%20thickness.jgr.2009.pdf
Table 1: http://www.personal.soton.ac.uk/pgc1g08/grl50193.pdf (autumn: unajusted data; winter: adjusted data)

It´s a rough approximation, please don´t fire me...

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Re: Piomas vs. CryoSat
« Reply #67 on: September 18, 2013, 08:33:57 AM »
Diablobanquisa,

There's something going on here but I'm not sure what. That comparison shows volume increase between the end of ICESat and start of Cryosat 2. Yet PIOMAS shows a drop in volume between those dates, and PIOMAS compares well with Cryosat 2 (the Laxon paper), and with ICESat Schweiger 2011 "Uncertainty in Modeled Arctic Sea Ice Volume").

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Re: Piomas vs. CryoSat
« Reply #68 on: September 18, 2013, 09:32:46 AM »
It is never wise (scientifically speaking) to compare numbers without considering their uncertainty.
Kwok et al specify a RMS (one sigma) error in volume of 2.28 [1000 km3] for fall, and 1.562  [1000 km3] in winter. When I was younger, I was never allowed to specify uncertainty in 4 decimals.
They also specify trends, but strangely enough without uncertainty. Perhaps it is the text somewhere that the derived trends numbers are meaningless.

Anyway, the difference between ice volume in fall is less than one sigma, and in winter well below two sigma. It cannot be said (meaningfully) that something is going on.

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Re: Piomas vs. CryoSat
« Reply #69 on: September 18, 2013, 09:44:57 AM »
Wipneus,

I did do a rough calculation using the uncertainties, and by my calculations only by selecting the highest for Kwok and lowest for Laxon did I get a reasonable drop between the two series. Which lead me to suspect something else was going on. But I didn't go as far as reading off values and spreadsheeting so perhaps you are correct and there is no issue.

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« Reply #70 on: September 18, 2013, 10:31:05 AM »
Which lead me to suspect something else was going on. But I didn't go as far as reading off values and spreadsheeting so perhaps you are correct and there is no issue.

There is nothing personal here Chris, but the when I saw Diablobanquisa's graph for the first time, I wondered about the error bars. They make the visible discrepancies meaningful or not. When I figured out what the error bar size was, I concluded probably not. Even without considering uncertainties in CryoSat and PIOMAS nrs.

My idea is that Laxon deliberately used averaged IceSat numbers because the trend in them is questionable.
And with just the average + the Cryosat2 + PIOMAS there is little remarkable going on. Or do you still see some discrepancy?

BTW, I haven't calculated anything and certainly not spreadcheated ;)


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« Reply #71 on: September 18, 2013, 02:49:12 PM »
The meereisportal.de has a CS2 thickness map for March 2013:



Regarding IceSat vs Cryosat, IIRC due to different orbits Icesat captured a full image within 3 month where CS2 only needs one month.

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Re: Piomas vs. CryoSat
« Reply #72 on: September 18, 2013, 03:26:59 PM »
The meereisportal.de has a CS2 thickness map for March 2013:

Thank you! They have the downloadable data as NetCDF files as well.

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« Reply #73 on: September 18, 2013, 03:39:59 PM »
Wipeus,

I do see what you say, and my conclusion was using a calculator at 06:00 - so was far from sound. I was just treating it as an early morning 'can I solve it issue'. I think your idea regards average numbers is probably correct and you were correct to point out error bounds.

Nothing personal taken. But as for spreadcheating... Hey! That's what I do!


A***,

Thanks for that, it goes to show how blunt a tool PIOMAS is, there's much more small scale variation in the Cryosat image. But it does support the predominant FYI state of last winter. Unfortunate that that didn't lead to a massive melt this year. But the feed through of thicker ice into next March will be a good further test of Cryosat.

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« Reply #74 on: September 18, 2013, 03:46:11 PM »
For that 'feed through', a good refreeze will be necessary, Chris. It remains to be seen whether '13-'14 is going to provide that.

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« Reply #75 on: September 18, 2013, 04:30:24 PM »
All this on a 720x720 EASE2 25km grid:

      radar_freeboard:long_name = "Sea-ice freeboard" ;
      n_valid_radar_freeboard:long_name = "Total number of valid radar freeboard data points inside one grid cell" ;
      sea_ice_thickness:long_name = "Sea-ice thickness" ;
      n_valid_ice_thickness:long_name = "Total number of valid sea-ice thickness data points inside one grid cell" ;
      sea_surface_anomaly:long_name = "Sea surface anomaly" ;
      radar_freeboard_uncertainty:long_name = "Radar_freeboard_uncertainty" ;
      ice_thickness_uncertainty:long_name = "Sea-ice thickness uncertainty" ;
      snow_depth:long_name = "Snow depth (modified climatology)" ;
      radar_penetration:long_name = "Maximum radar penetration into snow (parameterized)" ;
      ice_density:long_name = "Ice density (modified climatology)" ;
      snow_density:long_name = "Snow density (Warren climatology)" ;
      ice_type:long_name = "Sea-ice type" ;
      ice_concentration:long_name = "Sea-ice concentration" ;

Now lets start. EASE is equal area, so not the hassle with grid cell area calculation, hmm sounds too easy.

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Re: Piomas vs. CryoSat
« Reply #76 on: September 18, 2013, 04:44:41 PM »

Nothing personal taken. But as for spreadcheating... Hey! That's what I do!


The spelling checker did not like spreadsheeting either and suggested "spearheading"

I know that you use spreadsheets and I also know that you are happy with it.

Not for me though.

Can you handle NetCDF and HDF files?

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« Reply #77 on: September 18, 2013, 04:52:25 PM »
Tried 4 tools to read the *.nc files, all give me invalid data for all variables. Asked via the contact form for a reply...

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« Reply #78 on: September 18, 2013, 04:59:48 PM »
... there's much more small scale variation in the Cryosat image.
I suspect these are mostly artifacts of how the sensor scans the planets surface...


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Re: Piomas vs. CryoSat
« Reply #79 on: September 18, 2013, 05:25:35 PM »

Nothing personal taken. But as for spreadcheating... Hey! That's what I do!


The spelling checker did not like spreadsheeting either and suggested "spearheading"

I know that you use spreadsheets and I also know that you are happy with it.

Not for me though.

Can you handle NetCDF and HDF files?

I've got an app that copies netcdf into Excel files, but haven't spent the time writing a macro to get the data into arrays because Excel 2007 can't handle massive files, and some of the data I've been looking at for NCEP/NCAR is in >100Mb files.

Arcticio is right that I should move to a better platform, but I balk at the time involved in learning a new language to the degree that I can use Excel and VBA.

On the subject of spellchecks, my blog's spell check doesn't like spreadsheet either, more weird is that it doesn't like the word blog.

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Re: Piomas vs. CryoSat
« Reply #80 on: September 18, 2013, 05:28:27 PM »
Arcticio,

Looking at the meereiportal image above shows more of the sort of variation I'd expect. When I first saw the PIOMAS thickness data my initial response was surprise at it being so smoothed.

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« Reply #81 on: September 18, 2013, 05:45:17 PM »
For that 'feed through', a good refreeze will be necessary, Chris. It remains to be seen whether '13-'14 is going to provide that.

I'm looking at trying to make a prediction for this winter's maximum volume. There's a relationship between autumn/winter volume growth and area/extent/volume at the minimum such that in recent years lower minimum leads to greater autumn/winter volume growth. I've done quite a few blog posts recently and want some time off, but my preliminary playing around with the data produces the following tentative figures- based on the three stated indexes at minimum, with a rough guess of 4.9k km^3 for the volume minimum.

NSIDC Extent 21.68 (0.52)
CT Area 21.62 (0.53)
PIOMAS Volume 22.79 (0.77)

The latter PIOMAS volume is the one I'm least happy with as the increased ice growth in autumn/winter isn't really related to volume but to the increasing amount of open water in the last few years. I've not worked out proper error bounds for those yet, the RMS error for the ten years used in each case is in brackets.

However I'm not sure I'm happy with the other calculations though - if CT Area and NSIDC Extent based calculations are correct then that suggests a lower maximum volume due to the growth/thickness response than over the last three years! Adding on the RMS error brings about 22.2k km^3, between 2011 and 2010, but closer to 2011 than 2010 - which fits my gut instinct better.

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« Reply #82 on: September 18, 2013, 06:21:29 PM »
Tried 4 tools to read the *.nc files, all give me invalid data for all variables. Asked via the contact form for a reply...

I have no problem (in R using ncdf4 lib). There are a *lot* of invalid grid cells, especially the ones that fall off the globe due to the projection: the earth's surface is a circle within the square grid.

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« Reply #83 on: September 18, 2013, 06:24:44 PM »
Chris, I think I proposed a different platform 2 years ago. If you haven't spend the time improving Excel skills, you might have already gained enough time to develop a new part time hobby like fishing on top :) (pun intended)

Re. smoothness, an eye opener to me was the ice bridge data. Everything else looks heavily smoothed since then. The thing with CS2 is pixels side by side might have a time diff of 30 days, look the ray pattern following the latitudes.

Panoply lets me import these *.nc, but resists to plot them. An export of the thickness then starts like this:

196.27345,0.0,1.4E-44,2.8E-45,2.8E-45,1.8416428E34,1.009E-42,2.8E-45,7.366571E34 ... with NaNs spreaded without any system. Makes no sense at all.

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« Reply #84 on: September 18, 2013, 06:48:16 PM »
Diablobanquisa,

There's something going on here but I'm not sure what. That comparison shows volume increase between the end of ICESat and start of Cryosat 2. Yet PIOMAS shows a drop in volume between those dates, and PIOMAS compares well with Cryosat 2 (the Laxon paper), and with ICESat Schweiger 2011 "Uncertainty in Modeled Arctic Sea Ice Volume").


PIOMAS vs. ICESAT+CRYOSAT

Fall (they are in quite good agreement):


Winter (there are some discrepancies):




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Re: Piomas vs. CryoSat
« Reply #85 on: September 18, 2013, 07:16:08 PM »

Panoply lets me import these *.nc, but resists to plot them. An export of the thickness then starts like this:

196.27345,0.0,1.4E-44,2.8E-45,2.8E-45,1.8416428E34,1.009E-42,2.8E-45,7.366571E34 ... with NaNs spreaded without any system. Makes no sense at all.

That is not good. Here the numbers that are not NaN, are  between 0.19583 and 7.548747.

(I opened 201303, the 201101 did not look too well on the website: incomplete)

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« Reply #86 on: September 19, 2013, 12:56:05 PM »
Now lets start. EASE is equal area, so not the hassle with grid cell area calculation, hmm sounds too easy.
Equal area is nice to do the math, but plotting involves regridding, which consumes a lot of machine cycles and let the virtual machines I use in the cloud die. Don't tell me R does this out of the box.

How far are you already? Does AWI meets the CPOM results?

Here is a deep link into the archive showing all Cryosat data on maps: http://mep-datasrv1.awi.de/gallery/index.php?region=n&ice-type=thickness&maps=cryosat&minYear=2011&minMonth=1&maxYear=2013&maxMonth=4

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« Reply #87 on: September 19, 2013, 06:50:51 PM »
Now lets start. EASE is equal area, so not the hassle with grid cell area calculation, hmm sounds too easy.
Equal area is nice to do the math, but plotting involves regridding, which consumes a lot of machine cycles and let the virtual machines I use in the cloud die. Don't tell me R does this out of the box.

I don't see why you need regridding. Just plot pixel by pixel as x,y and there is a recognizable image. In fact I think the images on http://www.meereisportal.de/ are in this projection.
And yes, from an array called "sit", filled with sea ice thickness values, it is a one liner to create an image file:
Code: [Select]
writePNG(sit,"tmp.png")
The result with NaN's coded as white is attached. I also need a landmask in this projection for nice images, it does not seem to be in the nc files.

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I have been on the road all day, I came as far as calculating:

ice_concentration/100 * sea_ice_thickness [m] * 625 [km2]/106

This gives:
         date     volume
1  2011-01-15  4.9076324
2  2011-02-15 21.4862610
3  2011-03-15 24.0387541
4  2011-04-15 23.8183315
5  2011-05-15 19.2770542
6  2011-06-15  8.7775311
7  2011-07-15  0.3688989
8  2011-08-15  0.9055647
9  2011-09-15  2.1313803
10 2011-10-15  6.0696818
11 2011-11-15 13.7727295
12 2011-12-15 17.0248964
13 2012-01-15 17.6107925
14 2012-02-15 20.2405418
15 2012-03-15 21.4576165
16 2012-04-15 22.3840891
17 2012-05-15 18.6044975
18 2012-06-15  6.3298891
19 2012-07-15  0.2171291
20 2012-08-15  0.5552755
21 2012-09-15  1.7820316
22 2012-10-15  5.9148132
23 2012-11-15 12.4787856
24 2012-12-15 15.5528900
25 2013-01-15 16.0443608
26 2013-02-15 18.4534215
27 2013-03-15 22.4041133

So these data need to be restricted to the IceSat domain as well. The March 2013 value looks  not good. Suggestions welcome.

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Thanks.

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Re: Piomas vs. CryoSat
« Reply #88 on: September 19, 2013, 07:03:44 PM »
Arcticio,

It's just that I have so much on my plate, my list of papers to read keeps growing, and I've still got nowhere trying to use 2013 as a control to figure out what's causing the post 2007 summer atmospheric pattern. Maybe if the pack were behaving like it did 10 years ago I'd be able to make the time...

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« Reply #89 on: September 20, 2013, 12:02:31 AM »
Chris, was just kidding. I have the same problem when I look what people do with R. But wasn't a butterfly in the Amazonas causing the weather patterns? Are you diving chaos theory?

Wipneus, yes, the landmask is it what forces me to regrid. I want SMOS, PIOMAS and CS2 all on same map (style). Plotting an aray works similar with Python.

Why is sea ice conc. in your formular? Was thinking it's already included (like thickness for complete grid point). Have to check the docs....

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Re: Piomas vs. CryoSat
« Reply #90 on: September 20, 2013, 08:22:26 AM »
Wipneus, yes, the landmask is it what forces me to regrid. I want SMOS, PIOMAS and CS2 all on same map (style). Plotting an aray works similar with Python.

I see. I am actually considering moving my calculations to Python this winter. R is using too much resources to put on small server as is my intention.

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Why is sea ice conc. in your formular? Was thinking it's already included (like thickness for complete grid point). Have to check the docs....

This is from the Laxon et al. paper:

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In common with earlier satellite radar altimeters CS-2 sea ice thickness estimates
exclude open water [Laxon et al., 2003]. To compute sea ice volume we therefore
take the product of the area, the thickness excluding open water obtained from CS-2
and the ice concentration obtained from SSM/I

Laxon did not use the same data source, so in principle it is possible that "thickness" in the nc files means thickness averaged over the full cell surface. There is no indication in the NetCDF meta data that this is so though. The meta data is very meager anyway.

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Re: Piomas vs. CryoSat
« Reply #91 on: September 20, 2013, 01:40:08 PM »
Wipneus, you're right, area * concentration * thickness = volume. Got it confirmed.

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Re: Piomas vs. CryoSat
« Reply #92 on: September 21, 2013, 09:48:53 AM »
I found EASE land masks at http://www.usna.edu/Users/oceano/ghenders/NASA/measures.php

With that a much prettier image (201303):

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Re: Piomas vs. CryoSat
« Reply #93 on: September 25, 2013, 08:42:28 PM »
Diablobanquisa,

There's something going on here but I'm not sure what. That comparison shows volume increase between the end of ICESat and start of Cryosat 2. Yet PIOMAS shows a drop in volume between those dates, and PIOMAS compares well with Cryosat 2 (the Laxon paper), and with ICESat Schweiger 2011 "Uncertainty in Modeled Arctic Sea Ice Volume").


PIOMAS vs. ICESAT+CRYOSAT

Fall (they are in quite good agreement):


Winter (there are some discrepancies):


For further testing of the winter discrepancies, I have included the MYI area anomaly (rough numbers extracted from http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/files/2013/04/Figure52.png and ftp://sidads.colorado.edu/DATASETS/NOAA/G02135/Mar/N_03_area.txt):



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Re: Piomas vs. CryoSat
« Reply #94 on: September 27, 2013, 08:33:35 PM »
Diablobanquisa,

Thanks for that. It's lucky I popped in to see what's going on. I missed the post you quote.

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« Reply #95 on: September 28, 2013, 02:00:53 AM »
I've found a recent presentation about the German CryoSat data. It gives some interesting insights into error handling, but most importantly it details a bit on the 11-13 winter thickness trend, which is flat in PIOMAS and downwards with CryoSat.


   

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Re: Piomas vs. CryoSat
« Reply #96 on: September 28, 2013, 12:37:37 PM »
I've found a recent presentation about the German CryoSat data.

Thanks arcticio. Very interesting! I note that additional information, including higher resolution graphics, is available from: http://www.meereisportal.de/cryosat

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Re: Piomas vs. CryoSat
« Reply #97 on: September 28, 2013, 03:35:09 PM »
I've found a recent presentation about the German CryoSat data. It gives some interesting insights into error handling, but most importantly it details a bit on the 11-13 winter thickness trend, which is flat in PIOMAS and downwards with CryoSat.
The presentation suggests that snow cover on top of the sea ice is still a source of uncertainty for the CryoSat-2 thickness calculations.

They use climatological data for the snow depth (with a few modifications).  So if the actual snow depth in the winter of 2012/2013 was reduced compared to the two preceding winters (as suggested by the patterns for sea level pressure), perhaps that explains part of the decline in the CryoSat-2 thickness over the last 3 winters.  It's hard to say since the recent results are not published yet.

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« Reply #98 on: September 29, 2013, 08:17:48 PM »
Thanks Steven, that should have occurred to me before.

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Re: Piomas vs. CryoSat
« Reply #99 on: October 11, 2013, 12:51:04 PM »
Cryosat-2 in trouble?

(found here)

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03 Oct 2013

CryoSat acquisition stopped

CryoSat SIRAL acquisitions stopped yesterday (2nd October) at 16:23:01 UTC due to an onboard issue which is under investigation.

Science measurements will resume as soon as possible but not earlier than the beginning of next week.

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08 Oct 2013

CryoSat acquisition stopped - Investigation ongoing

Activities to recover from the platform problem experienced on Wednesday 02 October at 16:23:01 are ongoing according to plan. The SIRAL instrument still remains switched off.

CryoSat teams are working around the clock to resolve the anomaly and resume science measurements as soon as possible.

SIRAL (Synthetic Aperture Interferometric Radar Altimeter) is the main instrument on board CryoSat-2.