Data
Within ARCTEX, we will construct multivariate datasets of key physical parameters spanning land and sea ice for each of our identified case studies, and exploit parameters relevant to describe inter-actions between the atmosphere and ocean from available sources.
Advancements in remote sensing technologies have significantly enhanced our ability to monitor land ice and sea ice changes in the Arctic. Recent years have seen great advances within monitoring capabilities of the Arctic, with both increased number of Earth Observation (EO) satellites and satellites with advanced measuring techniques, but also within projects that have been focused on deriving essential climate variable in the Arctic, and more sophisticated re-processing methods of existing EO data. However, there has been a clear tendency that these projects and effort have been carried within each of their scientific communities (e.i. ice sheets, glaciers, sea ice, ice shelves etc) with limited interdisciplinary collaboration.
Within ARCTEX, we will create novel EO-based datasets for the specific study sites to identify tele-connections at the critical boundary zone, as well as use existing datasets. An overview of the datasets is presented below.