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Sea surface wind and Sea ice in the Barents Sea using microwave sensing data from Meteor-M N1 and GCOM-W1 satellites in January–March 2013

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Application of satellite passive microwave sensing for the retrieval of key climatic parameters in the Barents Sea is considered. Fields of surface wind, atmosphere water vapor content and cloud liquid water content were found from MTVZA-GY radiometer onboard the Meteor-M N1 satellite and AMSR2 onboard the GCOM-W1 satellite with the use of original algorithms. The fields are in a good agreement with the ancillary remote and in situ measurements, which follows from the analysis of the evolution of the extra tropical and polar cyclones and cold air outbreaks with storm winds leading to intense air-sea interaction, and the formation and drift of sea ice.

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  1. V.I. Il’ichev Pacific Oceanological Institute, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, Russia

    L. M. Mitnik, M. L. Mitnik, A. V. Vykochko & M. K. Pichugin

  2. Scientific Technological Center Kosmonit, JSC Russian Space Systems, Moscow, Russia

    G. M. Chernyavsky & I. V. Cherny

  3. Russian State Hydrometeorological University, St. Petersburg, Russia

    E. V. Zabolotskikh

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Original Russian Text © L.M. Mitnik, M.L. Mitnik, G.M. Chernyavsky, I.V. Cherny, A.V. Vykochko, M.K. Pichugin, E.V. Zabolotskikh, 2015, published in Issledovanie Zemli iz Kosmosa, 2015, No. 6, pp. 36–46.

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Mitnik, L.M., Mitnik, M.L., Chernyavsky, G.M. et al. Sea surface wind and Sea ice in the Barents Sea using microwave sensing data from Meteor-M N1 and GCOM-W1 satellites in January–March 2013. Izv. Atmos. Ocean. Phys. 52, 1041–1050 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S000143381609019X

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