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A new sea ice concentration product in the polar regions derived from the FengYun-3 MWRI sensors
Ying Chen
Chinese Antarctic Center of Surveying and Mapping, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430079, China
Ruibo Lei
Key Laboratory for Polar Science of the Ministry of Natural Resources, Polar Research Institute of China, Shanghai, China
Chinese Antarctic Center of Surveying and Mapping, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430079, China
Xi Zhao
School of Geospatial Engineering and Science, Sun Yat-Sen University & Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory, Zhuhai, China
Shengli Wu
Key Laboratory of Radiometric Calibration and Validation for
Environmental Satellites, National Satellite Meteorological Center (National
Center for Space Weather), China Meteorological Administration, Beijing,
China
Innovation Center for FengYun Meteorological Satellite (FYSIC),
Beijing, China
Yue Liu
Jiangsu Provincial Surveying and Mapping Engineering Institute,
Nanjing, China
Chinese Antarctic Center of Surveying and Mapping, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430079, China
Pei Fan
Chinese Antarctic Center of Surveying and Mapping, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430079, China
Qing Ji
Chinese Antarctic Center of Surveying and Mapping, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430079, China
Peng Zhang
Key Laboratory of Radiometric Calibration and Validation for
Environmental Satellites, National Satellite Meteorological Center (National
Center for Space Weather), China Meteorological Administration, Beijing,
China
Innovation Center for FengYun Meteorological Satellite (FYSIC),
Beijing, China
Xiaoping Pang
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Chinese Antarctic Center of Surveying and Mapping, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430079, China
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The sea ice concentration product derived from the Microwave Radiation Image sensors on board the FengYun-3 satellites can reasonably and independently identify the seasonal and long-term changes of sea ice, as well as extreme cases of annual maximum and minimum sea ice extent in polar regions. It is comparable with other sea ice concentration products and applied to the studies of climate and marine environment.
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