New Insights into Remote Sensing Techniques, Analysis and Modeling for the Observation of Ocean Waves and Sea Ice Monitoring
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Ocean Remote Sensing".
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Interests: SAR; optical imagery; ocean winds; waves; sea ice; internal waters; water quality
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Interests: ocean waves; winds; sea ice; wave propagation
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Interests: granular materials; sea ice dynamics; wave–ice interactions
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Ocean waves and sea ice are intimately connected. As ocean waves can affect the sea ice types, floes distribution and concentration, and thus the fluxes through the ocean-atmosphere interface, it is demanding to include waves-in-ice into the earth system of observation and modeling. The dramatic shrinking of the sea ice extent and volume allows winds to blow over longer fetches, thus developing higher and more energetic waves. Such waves favour the formation of grease and pancakes in the marginal ice zone and the fragmentation of ice floes in the depth of icefields, thereby contributing to the overall reduction of sea ice in the polar regions.
Therefore, it is challenging to refine and extend the observation techniques and analysis methods to monitor the evolution of both ocean waves and sea ice. These include the sensing of proximity carried by in situ instrumentations, suitable for local descriptions of both sea ice distribution (e.g., floes size distribution) and alteration of waves dispersion (both attenuation and wavenumber) as well as the synoptic imaging and non-imaging observations from aerial and spaceborne active/passive microwave (e.g., SAR and radiometers) and optical sensors. In addition, sea ice and wave data gathered by remote observations need to be coupled to or assimilated into numerical wave models to improve forecasts.
This Special Issue, entitled “New insights into remote sensing techniques, analysis and modeling for the observation of ocean waves and sea ice monitoring” is aimed at gathering research works on all the aspects related to the measurement, observation, analysis methods of ocean waves and sea ice, also in conjunction with theoretical description, modeling and forecast in the polar, sub-polar and marginal seas. This can be achieved either by taking advantage of the available microwave, optical, acoustic data and imagery provided from above by space-, air-, ship-borne, UAV systems and from below by submarine and underwater vehicles. The description of relevant case studies is also welcome.
Dr. Giacomo De Carolis
Dr. Francesca De Santi
Prof. Dr. Hayley H. Shen
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- ocean waves
- sea ice types
- thickness concentration
- wave models
- forecasts
- SAR
- radiometers
- optical sensors
- UAV
- ship-based instrumentations
- submarine
- autonomous underwater vehicles
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