IceBird

Much of AWI’s research is conducted in the inaccessible, ice-covered regions of the Arctic and Antarctic, making research aircraft indispensable. Currently AWI relies on the research planes <link en expedition aircraft polar-5-6.html>Polar 5 and Polar 6. These two Basler BT-67 planes are old DC-3 aircraft specially modified for flying under extreme polar conditions and for scientific or logistical missions.

2024

• Chen, F., Wang, D., Zhang, Y., Zhou, Y., Chen, C. (2024), Intercomparisons and Evaluations of Satellite-Derived Arctic Sea Ice Thickness Products. Remote Sens. 16, 508. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs16030508

2023

• Nab, C., Mallett, R., Gregory, W., Landy, J., Lawrence, I., Willatt, R., et al. (2023). Synoptic variability in satellite altimeter-derived radar freeboard of Arctic sea ice. Geophysical Research Letters, 50, e2022GL100696. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL100696
• Shi, H. et al. (2023), Estimation of Arctic Winter Snow Depth, Sea Ice Thickness and Bulk Density, and Ice Freeboard by Combining CryoSat-2, AVHRR, and AMSR Measurements, in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 61, pp. 1-18, 2023, Art no. 4300718, doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2023.3265274
• Rückert, J. E., Huntemann, M., Tonboe, R. T., & Spreen, G. (2023). Modeling snow and ice microwave emissions in the Arctic for a multi-parameter retrieval of surface and atmospheric variables from microwave radiometer satellite data. Earth and Space Science, 10, e2023EA003177. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023EA003177
• Sievers, I., Skourup, H., and Rasmussen, T. A. S.: The Variability of CryoSat-2 derived Sea Ice Thickness introduced by modelled vs. empirical snow thickness, sea ice density and water density, The Cryosphere Discuss. [preprint], https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2023-122, in review, 2023.
• Min, C. , Yang, Q. , Luo, H. , Chen, D. , Krumpen, T. , Mamnun, N. , Liu, X. and Nerger, L. (2023): Improving Arctic sea-ice thickness estimates with the assimilation of CryoSat-2 summer observations , Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Research, 2 . doi: 10.34133/olar.0025

2022

• Jutila, A., Hendricks, S., Ricker, R., von Albedyll, L., Krumpen, T., and Haas, C.: Retrieval and parameterisation of sea-ice bulk density from airborne multi-sensor measurements, The Cryosphere, 16, 259–275, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-259-2022, 2022.
• Landy, J. C. , Dawson, G. J. , Tsamados, M. , Bushuk, M. , Stroeve, J. C. , Howell, S. E. L. , Krumpen, T. , Babb, D. G. , Komarov, A. S. , Heorton, H. D. B. S. , Belter, H. J. and Aksenov, Y. (2022): A year-round satellite sea-ice thickness record from CryoSat-2 , Nature, 609 (7927), pp. 517-522 . doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05058-5
• von Albedyll, L. , Hendricks, S. , Grodofzig, R. , Krumpen, T. , Arndt, S. , Belter, H. J. , Birnbaum, G. , Cheng, B. , Hoppmann, M. , Hutchings, J. , Itkin, P. , Lei, R. , Nicolaus, M. , Ricker, R. , Rohde, J. , Suhrhoff, M. , Timofeeva, A. , Watkins, D. , Webster, M. and Haas, C. (2022): Thermodynamic and dynamic contributions to seasonal Arctic sea ice thickness distributions from airborne observations , Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 10 (1) . doi: 10.1525/elementa.2021.00074
• Dawson, G. , Landy, J. , Tsamados, M. , Komarov, A. S. , Howell, S. , Heorton, H. and Krumpen, T. (2022): A 10-year record of Arctic summer sea ice freeboard from CryoSat-2 , Remote Sensing of Environment, 268 , p. 112744 . doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2021.112744

2021

• Belter, H. J., Krumpen, T., von Albedyll, L., Alekseeva, T. A., Birnbaum, G., Frolov, S. V., Hendricks, S., Herber, A., Polyakov, I., Raphael, I., Ricker, R., Serovetnikov, S. S., Webster, M., and Haas, C. (2021). Interannual variability in Transpolar Drift summer sea ice thickness and potential impact of Atlantification, The Cryosphere, 15, 2575–2591, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-2575-2021.
• von Albedyll, L., Haas, C., and Dierking, W. (2021). Linking sea ice deformation to ice thickness redistribution using high-resolution satellite and airborne observations, The Cryosphere, 15, 2167–2186, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-2167-2021.
• Shen, X., Ke, C. -Q., Wang, Q., Zhang, J., Shi, L.  and X. Zhang (2021), Assessment of Arctic Sea Ice Thickness Estimates From ICESat-2 Using IceBird Airborne Measurements, in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 59, no. 5, pp. 3764-3775, May 2021, doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2020.3022945
• Krumpen, T. , von Albedyll, L. , Goessling, H. F. , Hendricks, S. , Juhls, B. , Spreen, G. , Willmes, S. , Belter, H. J. , Dethloff, K. , Haas, C. , Kaleschke, L. , Katlein, C. , Tian-Kunze, X. , Ricker, R. , Rostosky, P. , Rückert, J. , Singha, S. and Sokolova, J. (2021): MOSAiC drift expedition from October 2019 to July 2020: sea ice conditions from space and comparison with previous years , The Cryosphere, 15 (8), pp. 3897-3920 . doi: 10.5194/tc-15-3897-2021

2020

• Babb, D. G., Landy, J. C., Lukovich, J. V., Haas, C., Hendricks, S., Barber, D. G., & Galley, R. J. (2020). The 2017 reversal of the Beaufort Gyre: Can dynamic thickening of a seasonal ice cover during a reversal limit summer ice melt in the Beaufort Sea? Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 125, e2020JC016796. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JC016796
• Hartmann, M., K. Adachi, O. Eppers, C. Haas, A. Herber, R. Holzinger, A. Hünerbein, E. Jäkel, C. Jentzsch, M. van Pinxteren, H. Wex, S. Willmes, and F. Stratmann (2020). Wintertime airborne measurements of ice nucleating particles in the high Arctic: A hint to a marine, biogenic source for ice nucleating particles. Geophysical Research Letters, 47, e2020GL087770. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL087770
• Jutila, A. et al. (2020), High-Resolution Snow Depth on Arctic Sea Ice From Low-Altitude Airborne Microwave Radar Data, in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 60, pp. 1-16, 2022, Art no. 4300716, doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2021.3063756