Arctic sea ice concentration retrieval using the DT-ASI algorithm based on FY-3B/MWRI data

Hairui Hao; Jie Su; Qian Shi; Lele Li

doi:10.1007/s13131-021-1839-6

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Hairui Hao, Jie Su, Qian Shi, Lele Li. Arctic sea ice concentration retrieval using the DT-ASI algorithm based on FY-3B/MWRI data[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2021, 40(11): 176-188. doi: 10.1007/s13131-021-1839-6

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Hairui Hao, Jie Su, Qian Shi, Lele Li. Arctic sea ice concentration retrieval using the DT-ASI algorithm based on FY-3B/MWRI data[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2021, 40(11): 176-188. doi: 10.1007/s13131-021-1839-6

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Arctic sea ice concentration retrieval using the DT-ASI algorithm based on FY-3B/MWRI data

doi: 10.1007/s13131-021-1839-6

Hairui Hao^{1, 2},
Jie Su^{1, 2, 3
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Qian Shi^{1, 4},
Lele Li⁵

1.
Key Laboratory of Physical Oceanography of Ministry of Education, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266100, China
2.
University Corporation for Polar Research, Beijing 100875, China
3.
Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology (Qingdao), Qingdao 266237, China
4.
Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), Zhuhai 519082, China
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Faculty of Information Science and Engineering, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266100, China

Funds: The National Key Research and Development Program of China under contract No. 2016YFC1402704; the National Natural Science Foundation of China under contract Nos 41941012 and 42076228; the Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation under contract No. 2019A1515110295.

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Corresponding author: E-mail: sujie@ouc.edu.cn
Received Date: 2020-05-19
Accepted Date: 2021-04-02

Available Online: 2021-06-28

Publish Date: 2021-11-30

Abstract

Abstract

Sea ice concentration (SIC) is one of the most important indicators when monitoring climate changes in the polar region. With the development of the Chinese satellite technology, the FengYun (FY) series has been applied to retrieve the sea ice parameters in the polar region. In this paper, to improve the SIC retrieval accuracy from the passive microwave (PM) data of the Microwave Radiation Imager (MWRI) aboard on the FengYun-3B (FY-3B) Satellite, the dynamic tie-point (DT) Arctic Radiation and Turbulence Interaction Study (ARTIST) Sea Ice (ASI) (DT-ASI) SIC retrieval algorithm is applied and obtained Arctic SIC data for nearly 10 a (from November 18, 2010 to August 19, 2019). Also, by applying a land spillover correction scheme, the erroneous sea ice along coastlines in melt season is removed. The results of FY-3B/DT-ASI are obviously improved compared to that of FY-3B/NT2 (NASA-Team2) in both SIC and sea ice extent (SIE), and are highly consistent with the results of similar products of AMSR2 (Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2)/ASI and AMSR2/DT-ASI. Compared with the annual average SIC of FY-3B/NT2, our result is reduced by 2.31%. The annual average SIE difference between the two FY-3Bs is 1.65×10⁶ km², of which the DT-ASI algorithm contributes 87.9% and the land spillover method contributes 12.1%. We further select 58 MODIS (Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) cloud-free samples in the Arctic region and use the tie-point method to retrieve SIC to verify the accuracy of these SIC products. The root mean square difference (RMSD) and mean absolute difference (MAD) of the FY-3B/DT-ASI and MODIS results are 17.2% and 12.7%, which is close to those of two AMSR2 products with 6.25 km resolution and decreased 8% and 7.2% compared with FY-3B/NT2. Further, FY-3B/DT-ASI has the most significant improvement where the SIC is lower than 60%. A high-quality SIC product can be obtained by using the DT-ASI algorithm and our work will be beneficial to promote the application of FengYun Satellite.
- DT-ASI,
- FY-3B/MWRI,
- sea ice concentration,
- MODIS

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