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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2024-227
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2024-227
12 Aug 2024
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A sea ice deformation and rotation rates dataset (2017–2023) from the Environment and Climate Change Canada Automated Sea Ice Tracking System (ECCC-ASITS)

Mathieu Plante, Jean-François Lemieux, L. Bruno Tremblay, Amélie Bouchat, Damien Ringeisen, Philippe Blain, Stephen Howell, Mike Brady, Alexander S. Komarov, Béatrice Duval, and Lekima Yakuden

Abstract. Sea ice forms a thin but horizontally extensive boundary between the ocean and the atmosphere, with a complex crust-like dynamics characterized by intermittent sea ice deformations. The heterogeneity and localisation of these sea ice deformations are important characteristics of the sea ice cover that can be used to evaluate the performance of dynamical sea-ice models against observations across multiple spatial and temporal scales. Here, we present a new pan-Arctic sea-ice deformation and rotation rates (SIDRR) dataset derived from the RADARSAT Constellation Mission (RCM) and Sentinel-1 (S1) synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery from 01 September 2017 to 31 August 2023. The SIDRR estimates are derived from contour integrals of triangulated ice motion data, obtained from the Environment and Climate Change Canada automated sea ice tracking system (ECCC-ASITS). The SIDRR dataset is not regularised, and consist in stacked data from multiple SAR images computed on a range of temporal (0.5–6 days) and spatial (4–10 km) scales. It covers the entire Arctic Ocean and all peripheral seas except the Okhotsk Sea. Uncertainties associated with the propagation of tracking errors on the deformation values are included. We show that rectangular patterns of deformation features are visible when the sampled deformation rates are lower than the propagation error. This limits the meaningful information the can be extracted in areas with low SIDRR values, but allows for the characterisation of SIDRR in Linear Kinematic Features. The spatial coverage and range of resolutions of the SIDRR dataset provides an interesting opportunity to investigate regional and seasonal variability of sea-ice deformation statistics across scales, and can be used to determine metrics for model evaluation.

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Mathieu Plante, Jean-François Lemieux, L. Bruno Tremblay, Amélie Bouchat, Damien Ringeisen, Philippe Blain, Stephen Howell, Mike Brady, Alexander S. Komarov, Béatrice Duval, and Lekima Yakuden

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Mathieu Plante, Jean-François Lemieux, L. Bruno Tremblay, Amélie Bouchat, Damien Ringeisen, Philippe Blain, Stephen Howell, Mike Brady, Alexander S. Komarov, Béatrice Duval, and Lekima Yakuden

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Sea ice deformation and rotation rates (SIDRR) from the ECCC-ASITS Mathieu Plante, Jean-François Lemieux, L. Bruno Tremblay, Amélie Bouchat, Damien Ringeisen, Philippe Blain, Stephen Howell, Mike Brady, Alexander S. Komarov, Béatrice Duval, Lekima Yakuden, and Frédérique Labelle https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11520803

Mathieu Plante, Jean-François Lemieux, L. Bruno Tremblay, Amélie Bouchat, Damien Ringeisen, Philippe Blain, Stephen Howell, Mike Brady, Alexander S. Komarov, Béatrice Duval, and Lekima Yakuden

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Sea ice forms a thin boundary between the ocean and the atmosphere, with a complex crust-like dynamics and ever-changing networks of sea ice leads and ridges. Statistics of these dynamical features are often used to evaluate sea ice models. Here, we present a new pan-Arctic dataset of sea ice deformations derived from satellite imagery, from 01 September 2017 to 31 August 2023. We discuss the dataset coverage and some limitations associated with uncertainties in the computed values.
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