Fine-scale features on the sea surface in SAR satellite imagery &ndash; Part 2: Numerical modeling

Matt, S.; Fujimura, A.; Soloviev, A.; Rhee, S. H.; Romeiser, R.

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Fine-scale features on the sea surface in SAR satellite imagery – Part 2: Numerical modeling

S. Matt, A. Fujimura, A. Soloviev, S. H. Rhee, and R. Romeiser

S. Matt

Nova Southeastern University Oceanographic Center, Dania Beach, FL, USA

now at: NRC Research Associate at Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS, USA

A. Fujimura

University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, Miami, FL, USA

A. Soloviev

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6519-1547

Nova Southeastern University Oceanographic Center, Dania Beach, FL, USA

University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, Miami, FL, USA

S. H. Rhee

Seoul National University, Department of Naval Architecture & Ocean Engineering, Seoul, South Korea

R. Romeiser

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8793-0686

University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, Miami, FL, USA

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Instantaneous sea ice drift speed from TanDEM-X interferometry

Dyre Oliver Dammann, Leif E. B. Eriksson, Joshua M. Jones, Andrew R. Mahoney, Roland Romeiser, Franz J. Meyer, Hajo Eicken, and Yasushi Fukamachi

The Cryosphere, 13, 1395–1408, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-1395-2019,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-1395-2019, 2019

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We evaluate single-pass synthetic aperture radar interferometry (InSAR) as a tool to assess sea ice drift and deformation. Initial validation shows that TanDEM-X phase-derived drift speed corresponds well with ground-based radar-derived motion. We further show that InSAR enables the identification of potentially important short-lived dynamic processes otherwise difficult to observe, with possible implication for engineering and sea ice modeling.

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