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ISSN 2070-7401 (Print), ISSN 2411-0280 (Online)
Sovremennye problemy distantsionnogo zondirovaniya Zemli iz kosmosa
CURRENT PROBLEMS IN REMOTE SENSING OF THE EARTH FROM SPACE

  

Sovremennye problemy distantsionnogo zondirovaniya Zemli iz kosmosa, 2018, Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 139-147

Variability of the Arctic sea ice microwave emission at 89 GHz under winter conditions

E.V. Zabolotskikh 1 , M.A. Zhivotovskaya‎ 1 , N.Yu.‎ Zakhvatkina‎ 2, 3, 1 , B. Chapron 4, 1 
1 Russian State Hydrometeorological University, Saint Petersburg, Russia
2 Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, Saint Petersburg, Russia
3 Scientific Foundation “Nansen International Environmental and Remote Sensing Centre”, Saint Petersburg, Russia
4 Institut Français de Recherche pour l’Exploitation de la Mer, Plouzané, France
Accepted: 20.02.2018
DOI: 10.21046/2070-7401-2018-15-3-139-147
Spatial variability of the sea ice vertically and horizontally polarized microwave radiation at 89 GHz in January and February 2015 is studied using the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2 (AMSR2) measurements from GCOM-W1 satellite. Physical modeling of the microwave radiation transfer in the sea-ice-atmosphere system under non-scattering conditions is used to calculate the brightness temperatures (BTs) of the sea ice microwave radiation at 89 GHz from the AMSR2 measured brightness and Era-Interim re-analysis data, taken to estimate the atmospheric emission and absorption. Era-Interim data on the sea ice temperature are also used to downscale the sea ice BTs to the sea ice emissivities. Totally consolidated sea ice areas are selected on the basis of the Sentinel-1 Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) image expert analysis. The analysis of the results ensured the selection of the areas of high and low microwave radiation of the Arctic sea ice. The areas of low microwave radiation intensity are found both in multi year ice and in first year ice regions. The regions of comparatively high values (>20 K) of the polarization difference at 89 GHz are defined. For these regions the standard algorithms of the sea ice concentration retrieval will definitely underestimate the real concentration values.
Keywords: sea ice, Arctic, microwave radiation, brightness temperatures, physical modeling, AMSR2, Sentinel-1, Era-Interim
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