Physics
Scientific paper
Jun 2005
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005georl..3211502w&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 32, Issue 11, CiteID L11502
Physics
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Cryosphere: Sea Ice (4540), Geographic Location: Arctic Region (0718, 4207), Cryosphere: Instruments And Techniques, Oceanography: General: Ocean Observing Systems, Cryosphere: Properties
Scientific paper
Measurements of arctic sea-ice draft have been taken by Navy submarines for nearly five decades. The data are in two inherently different forms, analog paper charts and digitally recorded data. ``Raw'' analog drafts digitized from paper charts are biased toward thicker ice by over 30 cm compared with the digital drafts. This is due to the coarser temporal resolution of the paper charts compared the digital data. We examine coincident analog and digital data to determine how they can be made equivalent in mean draft and draft distribution (the histogram of draft vs. fractional frequency of observation). Image processing techniques are used to thin vertical features in the scanned chart images; this produces a ``final'' analog mean draft that is essentially unbiased (2 +/- 6 cm) relative to the digital mean and final draft distributions that are in good agreement.
Rothrock Andrew D.
Wensnahan Mark
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