Articles | Volume 11, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-2571-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-2571-2017
Research article
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13 Nov 2017
Research article |  | 13 Nov 2017

Intercomparison of snow depth retrievals over Arctic sea ice from radar data acquired by Operation IceBridge

Ron Kwok, Nathan T. Kurtz, Ludovic Brucker, Alvaro Ivanoff, Thomas Newman, Sinead L. Farrell, Joshua King, Stephen Howell, Melinda A. Webster, John Paden, Carl Leuschen, Joseph A. MacGregor, Jacqueline Richter-Menge, Jeremy Harbeck, and Mark Tschudi

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AR by Anna Mirena Feist-Polner on behalf of the Authors (11 Sep 2017)  Author's response
ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (21 Sep 2017) by Christian Haas
RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (28 Sep 2017)
ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (Editor review) (02 Oct 2017) by Christian Haas
AR by Anna Wenzel on behalf of the Authors (05 Oct 2017)  Author's response
ED: Publish as is (07 Oct 2017) by Christian Haas
AR by Ronald Kwok on behalf of the Authors (09 Oct 2017)  Author's response    Manuscript
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Short summary
Since 2009, the ultra-wideband snow radar on Operation IceBridge has acquired data in annual campaigns conducted during the Arctic and Antarctic springs. Existing snow depth retrieval algorithms differ in the way the air–snow and snow–ice interfaces are detected and localized in the radar returns and in how the system limitations are addressed. Here, we assess five retrieval algorithms by comparisons with field measurements, ground-based campaigns, and analyzed fields of snow depth.