Abstract
The ocean-sea ice-atmosphere interface (hereafter referred to as the marine cryosphere) is a major component of the high-latitude Earth system. Its presence or absence over the polar oceans is an important factor in the overall heat exchange at high latitudes (e.g. Maykut 1978) and is generally accepted as an important component in the climate system because of its potential to amplify small changes through a variety of feedback mechanisms. Energy flows through the marine cryosphere as a function of thermodynamic and dynamic processes, both of which affect, and in turn are affected by, the physical properties of the volume. This results in an integrated system whereby hydrospheric and atmospheric forcings are linked with changes in the geophysical and electrical characteristics of the snow-covered sea ice volume.
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Barber, D.G., Thomas, A., Papakyriakou, T.N. (1998). Role of SAR in Surface Energy Flux Measurements Over Sea Ice. In: Analysis of SAR Data of the Polar Oceans. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60282-5_3
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