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A 12-year climate record of wintertime wave-affected marginal ice zones in the Atlantic Arctic based on CryoSat-2
Weixin Zhu
Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Siqi Liu
Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
University Corporation of Polar Research, Beijing, China
Department of Earth Science, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, Department of Physics, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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In the polar ocean, wind waves generate and propagate into the sea ice cover, forming marginal ice zones (MIZs). Using ESA's CryoSat-2, we construct a 12-year dataset of the MIZ in the Atlantic Arctic, a key region for climate change and human activities. The dataset is validated with high-resolution observations by ICESat2 and Sentinel-1. MIZs over 300 km wide are found under storms in the Barents Sea. The new dataset serves as the basis for research areas, including wave–ice interactions.
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