DOI: 10.5194/tc-14-165-2020
论文题名: Broadband albedo of Arctic sea ice from MERIS optical data
作者: Pohl C. ; Istomina L. ; Tietsche S. ; Jäkel E. ; Stapf J. ; Spreen G. ; Heygster G.
刊名: Cryosphere
ISSN: 19940416
出版年: 2020
卷: 14, 期: 1 起始页码: 165
结束页码: 182
语种: 英语
英文关键词: albedo
; data set
; energy balance
; heat flux
; MERIS
; optical property
; parameterization
; sea ice
; snowmelt
; spectral analysis
; Arctic
英文摘要: Arctic summer sea ice experiences rapid changes in its sea-ice concentration, surface albedo, and the melt pond fraction. This affects the energy balance of the region and demands an accurate knowledge of those surface characteristics in climate models. In this paper, the broadband albedo (300-3000 nm) of Arctic sea ice is derived from MEdium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) optical swath data by transforming the spectral albedo as an output from the Melt Pond Detector (MPD) algorithm with a newly developed spectral-to-broadband conversion (STBC). The new STBC replaces the previously applied spectral averaging method to provide a more accurate broadband albedo product, which approaches the accuracy of 0.02-0.05 required in climate simulations and allows a direct comparison to broadband albedo values from climate models. The STBC is derived empirically from spectral and broadband albedo measurements over landfast ice. It is validated on a variety of simultaneous spectral and broadband field measurements over Arctic sea ice, is compared to existing conversion techniques, and performs better than the currently published algorithms. The root-mean-square deviation (RMSD) between broadband albedo that was measured and converted by the STBC is 0.02. Other conversion techniques, the spectral averaging method and the linear combination of albedo values from four MERIS channels, result in higher RMSDs of 0.09 and 0.05, respectively. The improved MERIS-derived broadband albedo values are validated with airborne measurements. Results show a smaller RMSD of 0.04 for landfast ice than the RMSD of 0.07 for drifting ice. The MERIS-derived broadband albedo is compared to broadband albedo from ERA5 reanalysis to examine the albedo parameterization used in ERA5. Both albedo products agree over large scales and in temporal patterns. However, consistency in point-to-point comparison is rather poor, with differences up to 0.20, correlations between 0.69 and 0.79, and RMSDs in excess of 0.10. Differences in sea-ice concentration and cloud-masking uncertainties play a role, but most discrepancies can be attributed to climatological sea-ice albedo values used in ERA5. They are not adequate and need revising, in order to better simulate surface heat fluxes in the Arctic. The advantage of the resulting broadband albedo data set from MERIS over other published data sets is the accompanied data set of available melt pond fraction. Melt ponds are the main reason for the sea-ice albedo change in summer but are currently not represented in climate models and atmospheric reanalysis. Additional information about melt evolution, together with accurate albedo retrievals, can aid the challenging representation of sea-ice optical properties in those models in summer. © 2020 BMJ Publishing Group. All rights reserved. Citation statistics:
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标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/164559
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作者单位: Institute of Environmental Physics, University of Bremen, Otto-Hahn-Allee 1, Bremen, 28359, Germany; European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Shinfield Park, Reading, RG2 9AX, United Kingdom; Leipzig Institute for Meteorology, University of Leipzig, Stephanstr. 3, Leipzig, 04103, Germany
Recommended Citation:
Pohl C.,Istomina L.,Tietsche S.,et al. Broadband albedo of Arctic sea ice from MERIS optical data[J]. Cryosphere,2020-01-01,14(1)