Seasonal thickness changes of Arctic sea ice north of Svalbard and implications for satellite remote sensing, ecosystem, and environmental management
Sebastian Gerland1, Anja Rösel1, Jennifer King1, Gunnar Spreen2, Dmitry Divine1, Torbjørn Eltoft3, Jean-Charles Gallet1, Stephen R Hudson1, Polona Itkin1, Thomas Krumpen4, Glen E Liston5, Ioanna Merkouriadi1, Jean Negrel1, Marcel Nicolaus4, Chris Polashenski6, Phillip Assmy7, David G Barber8, Pedro Duarte7, Anthony P Doulgeris9, Christian Haas10, Nick Hughes11, Malin Johansson12, Walter Meier13, Donald K Perovich14, Christine Provost15, Jacqueline Richter-Menge14, Henriette Skourup16, Penelope Wagner11, Jeremy Wilkinson17, Dr. Mats A Granskog, PhD18 and Harald Steen1, (1)Norwegian Polar Institute, Tromsø, Norway, (2)University of Bremen, Institute of Environmental Physics, Bremen, Germany, (3)UiT – The Arctic University of Norway, Department of Physics and Technology, Tromso, Norway, (4)Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany, (5)Colorado State University, Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA), Fort Collins, United States, (6)U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Ft Wainwright, United States, (7)Norwegian Polar Institute, Biological Oceanography, Tromsø, Norway, (8)University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, (9)The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway, (10)York University, Toronto, ON, Canada, (11)Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Oslo, Norway, (12)UiT – The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway, (13)National Snow and Ice Data Center, CIRES, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States, (14)U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, NH, United States, (15)LOCEAN, Paris Cedex 05, France, (16)National Space Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark, (17)NERC British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (18)Norwegian Polar Institute, Fram Centre, Tromsø, Norway
