Published February 23, 2024 | Version v1
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Combined cyclone and sea-ice lead data for the Arctic for 2002 to 2020

Creators

  • 1. Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research
  • 2. ROR icon A.M. Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics
  • 3. ROR icon University of Trier

Description

This dataset provides daily lead maps for the Arctic as well as cyclone occurrence information based on a cyclone tracking algorithm (Akperov et al., 2020), which was applied to 6-hourly ERA5 (Hersbach et al., 2020) sea level pressure fields. The data is available on a daily time scale from 2002 to 2020 (leads only available for the months November to April) and has a horizontal resolution of 12.5 km². The purpose of the dataset is to analyze lead formation in the Arctic sea ice in response to cyclone passages (publication currently in preparation). The lead data is based on the ArcLeads product (https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.955561) derived from MODIS thermal infrared imagery with 1 km² spatial resolution (Reiser et al., 2020).

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Dataset: 10.1594/PANGAEA.955561 (DOI)

References

  • Hersbach H, Bell B, Berrisford P, et al. (2020), The ERA5 global reanalysis, Q J R Meteorol Soc., 146, 1999–2049, https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.3803
  • Akperov, M., V. A. Semenov, I. I. Mokhov, W. Dorn, and A. Rinke (2020), Impact of atlantic water inflow on winter cyclone activity in the barents sea: insights from coupled regional climate model simulations, Environmental Research Letters, 15(2), 024009, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab6399
  • Reiser, F., Willmes, S., and Heinemann, G. (2020), A New Algorithm for Daily Sea Ice Lead Identification in the Arctic and Antarctic Winter from Thermal-Infrared Satellite Imagery, Remote Sens, 12, 1957, https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12121957