Abstract
In sea ice studies, there appear to be natural scale divisions (Overland et al. 1995), and the regional scale (10-50 km) is crucial because the processes on this scale interact with both the climate scale (100-300 km) sea ice processes and floe scale (1 km) processes. Understanding the intermediate regional scale sea ice deformation can help bridge the gap between the sea ice behavior on the floe scale, which is in situ measurable, and the one on the climate scale, which is used as a direct input to climate models. At the intermediate scale, the sea ice deformation behavior is observable from remote sensing data. In fact, the current generation of Earth-viewing radar satellites provides regular observations of the behavior of large areas of the Arctic pack ice. Only the extremely large image data stream poses difficulties for the rapid and efficient extraction of useful geophysical information, and thus requires the development of a variety of automated procedures. This is why the present chapter concentrates on the quantitative characterization of intermediate scale sea ice deformation.
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Li, S., Cheng, Z., Weeks, W.F. (1998). Extraction of Intermediate Scale Sea Ice Deformation Parameters from SAR Ice Motion Products. In: Analysis of SAR Data of the Polar Oceans. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60282-5_4
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