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SPICES

Space-borne observations for detecting and forecasting sea ice cover extremes

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Project "SPICES" data sheet

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Coordinator
ILMATIETEEN LAITOS 

Organization address
address: Erik Palmenin aukio 1
city: HELSINKI
postcode: 560
website: www.fmi.fi

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 Coordinator Country Finland [FI]
 Project website http://www.h2020-spices.eu
 Total cost 2˙995˙678 €
 EC max contribution 2˙995˙678 € (100%)
 Programme 1. H2020-EU.2.1.6. (INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies – Space)
 Code Call H2020-EO-2014
 Funding Scheme RIA
 Starting year 2015
 Duration (year-month-day) from 2015-06-01   to  2018-05-31

 Partnership

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# participants  country  role  EC contrib. [€] 
1    ILMATIETEEN LAITOS FI (HELSINKI) coordinator 297˙500.00
2    STIFTELSEN NANSEN SENTER FOR MILJOOG FJERNMALING NO (BERGEN) participant 257˙193.00
3    EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS UK (READING) participant 256˙250.00
4    DANMARKS METEOROLOGISKE INSTITUT DK (KOBENHAVN) participant 248˙750.00
5    ALFRED-WEGENER-INSTITUT HELMHOLTZ-ZENTRUM FUR POLAR- UND MEERESFORSCHUNG DE (BREMERHAVEN) participant 245˙375.00
6    MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV DE (MUENCHEN) participant 245˙375.00
7    UNIVERSITAET BREMEN DE (BREMEN) participant 245˙375.00
8    UNIVERSITAET HAMBURG DE (HAMBURG) participant 245˙375.00
9    DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET DK (KGS LYNGBY) participant 242˙750.00
10    METEOROLOGISK INSTITUTT NO (OSLO) participant 199˙235.00
11    UNIVERSITA POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE IT (ANCONA) participant 187˙500.00
12    INSTITUT FRANCAIS DE RECHERCHE POUR L'EXPLOITATION DE LA MER FR (PLOUZANE) participant 162˙500.00
13    CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE IT (ROMA) participant 93˙750.00
14    ISTANBUL TEKNIK UNIVERSITESI TR (MASLAK ISTANBUL) participant 68˙750.00

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 Project objective

The main objective of this proposal is to develop new methods to retrieve sea ice parameters from existing (and imminent) satellite sensors to provide enhanced products for polar operators and prediction systems, specifically addressing extreme and unexpected conditions. Automatic remote sensing products traditionally provide general information on sea ice conditions such as ice extent and concentration. However, for ice charting, tactical navigation and management of off-shore activities much more important is to know and avoid hazardous sea ice conditions. In general, sea ice hazards are related to sea ice thickness. More often than not polar ships and off-shore platforms are only operating during summer seasons and certain regions. This is because they are designed to resist typical forces of induced by pack ice, but they are not designed to resist the extreme sea ice conditions.

Ongoing climate warming has manifested as shrinking and thinning of pack ice in the Arctic. This is a primary driver for the increasing shipping, oil and gas explorations and mining activities in the Arctic. However, severe sea ice conditions still exist and in consequence many locations are impossible for ship based operations. Moreover, year-to-year variability of sea ice is very large and hazardous multiyear ice (MYI) floes sometimes appear also in typically seasonally ice free regions.

In order to response needs of increase polar activities, we propose to focus on detection of sea ice extremes and automatic production of “sea ice warnings” products. In particular, we aim for a detection of MYI floes in a area composed mostly first-year ice from synthetic aperture radar (SAR), heavily ridged ice regions from SAR, the thickest ice from radar altimeter (RA) thickness profiles, regional anomalies of thick or thin ice via passive microwave (PMW) data, sea ice areas vulnerable for the wave action, detection of early/late melting season and improving capabilities to forecast seasonal sea ice extremes.

 Deliverables

List of deliverables.
Assimilation of CryoSat-2 orbit data in seasonal forecast models Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes 2019-05-24 12:23:45
Co-located dataset of daily data along buoy tracks for forward model development Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes 2019-05-24 12:24:11
Operational sea-ice freeboard and thickness data from synthetic aperture radar altimetry Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes 2019-05-24 12:23:49
Improved mean sea-surface height product with near-real time availability Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes 2019-05-24 12:23:37
Data Management Plan Documents, reports 2019-05-24 12:23:54
OE-tool for large scale sea ice and snow parameters from satellite and NWP data Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes 2019-05-24 12:23:36
Second Progress Report Documents, reports 2019-05-24 12:23:55
Dataset of SAR based sea ice products Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes 2019-05-24 12:24:12
Definition of new set of observation-based metrics relevant for regional applications, and corresponding verification dataset Documents, reports 2019-05-24 12:23:52
Forward models for large scale sea ice and snow parameters from satellite and NWP data Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes 2019-05-24 12:23:34
Validation of SAR based sea ice products Documents, reports 2019-05-24 12:24:05
Final Report Documents, reports 2019-05-24 12:23:56
Report on retrieval of sea ice thickness from the SAR wave-spectrum and validation Documents, reports 2019-05-24 12:23:35
Innovation Management and Service Development Plan Documents, reports 2019-05-24 12:23:55
Evaluation of impact of new initialization on forecasts using new metrics Documents, reports 2019-05-24 12:24:05
Datasets of ice and snow parameters for ice thickness retrieval and for input to WP8 Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes 2019-05-24 12:23:39
Communication Activity Plan Documents, reports 2019-05-24 12:23:53
Albedo and MPF data set Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes 2019-05-24 12:23:52
Sea-ice freeboard, thickness from CryoSat-2 and snow-depth with weekly resolution Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes 2019-05-24 12:23:40
Report on 1.4 GHz sea ice thickness retrieval validation Documents, reports 2019-05-24 12:23:34
Albedo and MPF retrieval methodology based on PM observations Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes 2019-05-24 12:23:34
Dataset of snow (and related ice) parameters over sea ice along IMB buoy trajectories. Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes 2019-05-06 12:56:01
Plan for buoy deployments (including in-kind buoys from other projects) Documents, reports 2019-05-06 12:56:01
Statistical relation between (albedo and MPF) and brightness temperatures of PM sensors from 1.4 to 89 GHz Documents, reports 2019-05-06 12:56:01
Report on SMOS and SMAP TB data quality and comparison Documents, reports 2019-05-06 12:56:01
Retrieval algorithm for albedo and MPF from Sentinel-3 observations Documents, reports 2019-05-06 12:56:01
First Progress Report Documents, reports 2019-05-06 12:56:01
Arctic sea ice type product from satellite altimetry Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes 2019-05-06 12:56:01
Comparison of sea ice type estimates from satellite radar altimetry and auxilliary sea ice type products Documents, reports 2019-05-06 12:56:01
Influence of MPF on sea ice concentration retrieval Documents, reports 2019-05-06 12:56:01
Gridded product of sea ice thickness from SMOS and SMAP and uncertainties Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes 2019-05-06 12:56:01
Uncertainty analysis of CryoSat-2 orbit data of the fast-delivery-mode data product Documents, reports 2019-05-06 12:56:01
Limit of sea ice thickness determination from SMOS in onset of melt Documents, reports 2019-05-06 12:56:01
Project web site Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. 2019-05-06 12:56:01
Provision of new observational products for initialization (SMOS+CRYOSAT2 thickness and along track sea ice concentration) Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes 2019-05-06 12:56:01
Adjusted sea ice classification methodology to satellite altimeter data based on existing airborne altimeter methodology Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes 2019-05-06 12:56:01
Novel sea ice classification algorithms for SAR images Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes 2019-05-06 12:56:01
Gridded product of SMOS and SMAP TB (daily average; resolution 12-15 km) and uncertainties Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes 2019-05-06 12:56:01
Gridded product of SMAP sigma-0 (daily average; resolution 1-3 km) and uncertainties Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes 2019-05-06 12:56:01
Dataset of snow (and related ice-) parameters from OIB and CryoVex campaigns Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes 2019-05-06 12:56:01
Pre-processing methods for dual-polarized Sentinel-1 IW/EM and RADARSAT-2 ScanSAR images Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes 2019-05-06 12:56:01
Retrieval methodology to retrieve applied WMO ice classes from RA data Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes 2019-05-06 12:56:01

Take a look to the deliverables list in detail:  detailed list of SPICES deliverables.

 Publications

year authors and title journal last update
List of publications.
2018 Robert Ricker, Fanny Girard-Ardhuin, Thomas Krumpen, Camille Lique
Satellite-derived sea ice export and its impact on Arctic ice mass balance
published pages: 3017-3032, ISSN: 1994-0424, DOI: 10.5194/tc-12-3017-2018
The Cryosphere 12/9 2019-10-08
2018 Alexandru Gegiuc, Markku Similä, Juha Karvonen, Mikko Lensu, Marko Mäkynen, Jouni Vainio
Estimation of degree of sea ice ridging based on dual-polarized C-band SAR data
published pages: 343-364, ISSN: 1994-0424, DOI: 10.5194/tc-12-343-2018
The Cryosphere 12/1 2019-05-29
2018 Juha Karvonen
Estimation of Arctic land-fast ice cover based on dual-polarized Sentinel-1 SAR imagery
published pages: 2595-2607, ISSN: 1994-0424, DOI: 10.5194/tc-12-2595-2018
The Cryosphere 12/8 2019-05-29
2017 M. Moctezuma-Flores, F. Parmiggiani
Tracking of the iceberg created by the Nansen Ice Shelf collapse
published pages: 1224-1234, ISSN: 0143-1161, DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2016.1275054
International Journal of Remote Sensing 38/5 2019-05-29
2018 F. Parmiggiani, M. Moctezuma-Flores, P. Wadhams, G. Aulicino
Image processing for pancake ice detection and size distribution computation
published pages: 1-16, ISSN: 0143-1161, DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2018.1541367
International Journal of Remote Sensing 2019-05-29
2018 Amelie Schmitt, Lars Kaleschke
A Consistent Combination of Brightness Temperatures from SMOS and SMAP over Polar Oceans for Sea Ice Applications
published pages: 553, ISSN: 2072-4292, DOI: 10.3390/rs10040553
Remote Sensing 10/4 2019-05-29
2018 P. Wadhams, G. Aulicino, F. Parmiggiani, P. O. G. Persson, B. Holt
Pancake Ice Thickness Mapping in the Beaufort Sea From Wave Dispersion Observed in SAR Imagery
published pages: 2213-2237, ISSN: 2169-9275, DOI: 10.1002/2017jc013003
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 123/3 2019-05-29
2017 Robert Ricker, Stefan Hendricks, Fanny Girard-Ardhuin, Lars Kaleschke, Camille Lique, Xiangshan Tian-Kunze, Marcel Nicolaus, Thomas Krumpen
Satellite-observed drop of Arctic sea ice growth in winter 2015-2016
published pages: 3236-3245, ISSN: 0094-8276, DOI: 10.1002/2016GL072244
Geophysical Research Letters 44/7 2019-05-29
2018 A. Di Bella, H. Skourup, J. Bouffard, T. Parrinello
Uncertainty reduction of Arctic sea ice freeboard from CryoSat-2 interferometric mode
published pages: , ISSN: 0273-1177, DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2018.03.018
Advances in Space Research 2019-05-29
2017 Marko Makynen, Juha Karvonen
Incidence Angle Dependence of First-Year Sea Ice Backscattering Coefficient in Sentinel-1 SAR Imagery Over the Kara Sea
published pages: 6170-6181, ISSN: 0196-2892, DOI: 10.1109/tgrs.2017.2721981
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 55/11 2019-05-29
2017 Marko Mäkynen; Juha Karvonen
MODIS Sea Ice Thickness and Open Water–Sea Ice Charts over the Barents and Kara Seas for Development and Validation of Sea Ice Products from Microwave Sensor Data
published pages: 1324, ISSN: 2072-4292, DOI: 10.3390/rs9121324
Remote Sensing 9/12 2019-05-29
2017 Miguel Moctezuma-Flores, Flavio Parmiggiani, Corrado Fragiacomo, Lorenzo Guerrieri
Synthetic aperture radar analysis of floating ice at Terra Nova Bay—an application to ice eddy parameter extraction
published pages: 26041, ISSN: 1931-3195, DOI: 10.1117/1.jrs.11.026041
Journal of Applied Remote Sensing 11/2 2019-05-29
2018 Peng Lu, Matti Leppäranta, Bin Cheng, Zhijun Li, Larysa Istomina, Georg Heygster
The color of melt ponds on Arctic sea ice
published pages: 1331-1345, ISSN: 1994-0424, DOI: 10.5194/tc-12-1331-2018
The Cryosphere 12/4 2019-05-29

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