Comparison between SAR derived sea ice displacement and hindcasts by the operational ocean model HIROMB

• The purpose of this paper is to compare measurements of sea ice displacement from SAR imagery with ice floe drift trajectories modeled by the operational ocean circulation model HIROMB. The study examines the ice movement in the Fram Strait during a two-week period in April, 2011. The results indicate that the HIROMB model overestimates the drift speed by a factor 1 - 2.5, which may be attributed to an underestimated thickness of the ice. The model data also exhibit a directional offset in the positive clockwise direction of 10 - 30 degrees over the whole study region. The results of this study may be used to direct the model development and improve the model initialization.

Ämnesord

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Geovetenskap och miljövetenskap -- Oceanografi, hydrologi och vattenresurser (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Earth and Related Environmental Sciences -- Oceanography, Hydrology and Water Resources (hsv//eng)

TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Elektroteknik och elektronik -- Signalbehandling (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering -- Signal Processing (hsv//eng)

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Data- och informationsvetenskap -- Datorseende och robotik (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Computer and Information Sciences -- Computer Vision and Robotics (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

ice-ocean model

sea ice motion

SAR

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