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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">ESSDD</journal-id>
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<journal-title>Earth System Science Data Discussions</journal-title>
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<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="nlm-ta">Earth Syst. Sci. Data Discuss.</abbrev-journal-title>
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<issn pub-type="epub">1866-3591</issn>
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<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/essd-2026-471</article-id>
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<article-title>Thirteen Winters (2012&amp;ndash;2025) of Penetration-Aware Arctic Sea-Ice Emissivity and Emission Temperature from AMSR2</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Kang</surname>
<given-names>Eui-Jong</given-names>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Sohn</surname>
<given-names>Byung-Ju</given-names>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<sup>2</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Song</surname>
<given-names>Hwan-Jin</given-names>
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<sup>3</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Kim</surname>
<given-names>Wonho</given-names>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff4">
<sup>4</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Liu</surname>
<given-names>Chao</given-names>
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<sup>2</sup>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University (SNU), Seoul, South Korea</addr-line>
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<label>2</label>
<addr-line>School of Remote Sensing and Geomatics Engineering, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology (NUIST), Nanjing, China</addr-line>
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<label>3</label>
<addr-line>Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Kyungpook National University (KNU), Daegu, South Korea</addr-line>
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<label>4</label>
<addr-line>Korea Institute of Atmospheric Prediction Systems (KIAPS), Seoul, South Korea</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>24</day>
<month>08</month>
<year>2026</year>
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<volume>2026</volume>
<fpage>1</fpage>
<lpage>45</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2026 Eui-Jong Kang et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2026</copyright-year>
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<p>Passive microwave observations enable long-term, all-weather monitoring of Arctic sea ice, but their physical interpretation depends on how surface emission is represented. In conventional satellite emissivity products, emissivity is typically retrieved under a skin-emission assumption, even though low-frequency microwave radiation over sea ice can originate from a deeper, non-isothermal subsurface layer. This study presents a new satellite-derived dataset of low-frequency sea-ice emissivity representative of the microwave-emitting layer and the corresponding emission temperature for wintertime Arctic sea ice. The dataset is generated using a simulation-trained retrieval framework in which penetration-aware sea-ice surface emission parameters are combined with reanalysis atmospheric profiles in radiative transfer calculations to construct forward-consistent training data, and neural-network inversion models are trained separately for emissivity and emission temperature to retrieve each variable independently from top-of-atmosphere brightness temperatures.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;With the developed algorithm applied to Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2 (AMSR2) observations, a 13-winter record (2012/2013&amp;ndash;2024/2025) of penetration-aware emissivity and emission temperature is produced over the Arctic Ocean north of 70&amp;deg;N under high sea-ice concentration (Kang, 2026; https://tinyurl.com/5n6843r8). Because neither emissivity nor emission temperature has a direct observational reference, the retrieval is evaluated in observation space via radiative-transfer closure. Brightness temperatures forward-simulated from the retrieved parameters agree closely with AMSR2 observations across all winters (r &amp;asymp; 0.99, spread of about 1 K), demonstrating radiative consistency despite training on simulation-based data. Comparable agreement is obtained at the 23.8 GHz horizontally polarized channel, which is not used in the retrieval, supporting cross-channel physical consistency. The dataset is temporally stable across winters and is intended to support radiative-transfer applications, satellite retrieval development, sea-ice characterization, and polar data assimilation.</p>
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<funding-source>National Research Foundation of Korea</funding-source>
<award-id>RS-2025-02633368</award-id>
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<funding-source>National Research Foundation of Korea</funding-source>
<award-id>RS-2023-00301914</award-id>
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