FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI Satellite Observations for Detecting and Forecasting Sea-Ice Conditions: A Summary of Advances Made in the SPICES Project by the EU’s Horizon 2020 Programme BT AF Mäkynen, Marko Haapala, Jari Aulicino, Giuseppe Balan-Sarojini, Beena Balmaseda, Magdalena Gegiuc, Alexandru GIRARD-ARDHUIN, Fanny Hendricks, Stefan Heygster, Georg Istomina, Larysa Kaleschke, Lars Karvonen, Juha Krumpen, Thomas Lensu, Mikko Mayer, Michael Parmiggiani, Flavio Ricker, Robert Rinne, Eero Schmitt, Amélie Similä, Markku Tietsche, Steffen Tonboe, Rasmus Wadhams, Peter Winstrup, Mai Zuo, Hao AS 1:1;2:1;3:2;4:3;5:3;6:1;7:4;8:5;9:6;10:5;11:5;12:1;13:5;14:1;15:3,7;16:8;17:4,5;18:1;19:9;20:1;21:3;22:10;23:11;24:12;25:3; FF 1:;2:;3:;4:;5:;6:;7:PDG-ODE-LOPS-SIAM;8:;9:;10:;11:;12:;13:;14:;15:;16:;17:PDG-ODE-LOPS;18:;19:;20:;21:;22:;23:;24:;25:; C1 Finnish Meteorological Institute, PB 503, FI-00101 Helsinki, Finland Department of Science and Technology—DiST, Università degli Studi di Napoli Parthenope, Centro Direzionale Is C4, 80143 Napoli, Italy European Centre for Medium-Range Weather forecasts, Shinfield Park, Reading RG2 9AX, UK Ifremer, Univ. Brest, CNRS, IRD, Laboratoire d’Océanographie Physique et Spatiale, IUEM, 29280 Brest, France Alfred Wegener Institute, Am Handelshafen 12, 27570 Bremerhaven, Germany Institute of Environmental Physics, University of Bremen, 28359 Bremen, Germany Department of Meteorology and Geophysics, University of Vienna, UZA II, Althanstrasse 14, 1090 Vienna, Austria Department of Satellite Meteorology, ISAC-CNR, Via Piero Gobetti 101, 40129 Bologna, Italy Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences, University of Hamburg, Bundesstr. 53, 20146 Hamburg, Germany Danish Meteorological Institute, Lyngbyvej 100, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark Department of Life and Environmental Sciences - DiSVA, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Via Brecce Bianche, 60131 Ancona, Italy DTU Space, National Space Institute, Technical University of Denmark, Elektrovej Bygning 327, 2800 Kongens Lyngby, Denmark C2 FINNISH METEOROL INST, FINLAND UNIV NAPLES, ITALY ECMWF, UK IFREMER, FRANCE INST A WEGENER, GERMANY UNIV BREMEN, GERMANY UNIV VIENNA, AUSTRIA CNR ISAC, ITALY UNIV HAMBURG, GERMANY DANISH METEOROL INST, DENMARK UNIV POLITECN MARCHE, ITALY UNIV TECH DENMARK (DTU AQUA), DENMARK SI BREST SE PDG-ODE-LOPS-SIAM PDG-ODE-LOPS UM LOPS IN WOS Ifremer UMR DOAJ copubli-europe IF 2.1 TC 14 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00622/73389/72601.pdf LA English DT Article DE ;Arctic;sea ice;remote sensing;forecasting AB The detection, monitoring, and forecasting of sea-ice conditions, including their extremes, is very important for ship navigation and offshore activities, and for monitoring of sea-ice processes and trends. We summarize here recent advances in the monitoring of sea-ice conditions and their extremes from satellite data as well as the development of sea-ice seasonal forecasting capabilities. Our results are the outcome of the three-year (2015–2018) SPICES (Space-borne Observations for Detecting and Forecasting Sea-Ice Cover Extremes) project funded by the EU’s Horizon 2020 programme. New SPICES sea-ice products include pancake ice thickness and degree of ice ridging based on synthetic aperture radar imagery, Arctic sea-ice volume and export derived from multisensor satellite data, and melt pond fraction and sea-ice concentration using Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) radiometer data. Forecasts of July sea-ice conditions from initial conditions in May showed substantial improvement in some Arctic regions after adding sea-ice thickness (SIT) data to the model initialization. The SIT initialization also improved seasonal forecasts for years with extremely low summer sea-ice extent. New SPICES sea-ice products have a demonstrable level of maturity, and with a reasonable amount of further work they can be integrated into various operational sea-ice services. PY 2020 PD APR SO Remote Sensing SN 2072-4292 PU MDPI AG VL 12 IS 7 UT 000537709600164 DI 10.3390/rs12071214 ID 73389 ER EF