Validating satellite derived and modelled sea-ice drift in the Laptev Sea with in situ measurements from the winter of 2007/08

Type Article
Date 2011
Language English
Author(s) Rozman Polona1, Hoelemann Jens A.2, Krumpen Thomas1, Gerdes Ruediger1, Koeberle Cornelia1, Lavergne Thomas3, Adams Susanne4, Ardhuin FannyORCID5
Affiliation(s) 1 : Alfred Wegener Inst Polar & Marine & Res, DE-27570 Bremerhaven, Germany.
2 : Alfred Wegener Inst Polar & Marine Res, DE-27570 Bremerhaven, Germany.
3 : Norwegian Meteorol Inst, NO-0313 Oslo, Norway.
4 : Univ Trier, Dept Environm Meteorol, DE-54286 Trier, Germany.
5 : IFREMER, Ctr Brest, Spatial Oceanog Lab, FR-29280 Plouzane, France.
Source Polar Research (0800-0395) (Co-action Publishing), 2011 , Vol. 30 , P. -
DOI 10.3402/polar.v30i0.7218
WOS© Times Cited 27
Keyword(s) Shelf seas, sea-ice drift, sea-ice-ocean coupled model, acoustic Doppler current profiler, fast ice
Abstract A correct representation of the ice movement in an Arctic sea-ice-ocean coupled model is essential for a realistic sea-ice and ocean simulation. The aim of this study is to validate the observational and simulated sea-ice drift for the Laptev Sea Shelf region with in situ measurements from the winter of 2007/08. Several satellite remote-sensing data sets are first compared to mooring measurements and afterwards to the sea-ice drift simulated by the coupled sea-ice-ocean model. The different satellite products have a correlation to the in situ data ranging from 0.56 to 0.86. The correlations of sea-ice direction or individual drift vector components between the in situ data and the observations are high, about 0.8. Similar correlations are achieved by the model simulations. The sea-ice drift speed derived from the model and from some satellite products have only moderate correlations of about 0.6 to the in situ record. The standard errors for the satellite products and model simulations drift components are similar to the errors of the satellite products in the central Arctic and are about 0.03 m/s. The fast-ice parameterization implementation in the model was also successfully tested for its influence on the sea-ice drift. In contrast to the satellite products, the model drift simulations have a full temporal and spatial coverage and results are reliable enough to use as sea-ice drift estimates on the Laptev Sea Shelf.
Full Text
File Pages Size Access
Publisher's official version 15 10 MB Open access
Top of the page

How to cite 

Rozman Polona, Hoelemann Jens A., Krumpen Thomas, Gerdes Ruediger, Koeberle Cornelia, Lavergne Thomas, Adams Susanne, Ardhuin Fanny (2011). Validating satellite derived and modelled sea-ice drift in the Laptev Sea with in situ measurements from the winter of 2007/08. Polar Research, 30, -. Publisher's official version : https://doi.org/10.3402/polar.v30i0.7218 , Open Access version : https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00049/15983/