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University of Washington: Seattle, US

2023-01-03 to present | Principal Research Scientist (Applied Physics Laboratory, Polar Science Center)
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Melinda Webster

University of Alaska Fairbanks: Fairbanks, US

2019-11-06 to 2023-01-02 | Research Assistant Professor (Geophysical Institute)
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Melinda Webster

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center: Greenbelt, US

2017-01 to 2019-08 | Research Physical Scientist (Cryospheric Sciences Laboratory)
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Melinda Webster

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center: Greenbelt, MD, US

2016-09 to 2016-12 | NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow (Cryospheric Sciences Laboratory)
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University of Washington: Seattle, US

2016-06 to 2016-08 | Research Scientist/Engineer (Applied Physics Laboratory - Polar Science Center)
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Melinda Webster

University of Washington: Seattle, US

2009-03 to 2010-09 | Research Scientist (Applied Physics Laboratory - Polar Science Center)
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Education and qualifications (3)

University of Washington: Seattle, US

2013-06 to 2016-06 | Doctor of Philosophy (Oceanography)
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Melinda Webster

University of Washington: Seattle, US

2010-09 to 2013-06 | Masters of Science (Oceanography)
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Melinda Webster

University of Washington: Seattle, US

2008-01 to 2010-06 | Bachelors of Science (Oceanography)
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Professional activities (7)

American Geophysical Union: Washington D.C., District of Columbia, US

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American Association For The Advancement of Science: Washington D.C., District of Columbia, US

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Melinda Webster

NASA NSIDC DAAC User Working Group: Boulder, US

2019 to present
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Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee: Washington, D.C., District of Columbia, US

2017 to present | Co-lead (Sea Ice Collaboration Team)
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Melinda Webster

NASA: Washington, D.C., District of Columbia, US

2016 | NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow
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Pacific Science Center: Seattle, Washington, US

2011 | Science Communication Fellow, 2011–2013
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Melinda Webster

NASA: Washington, D.C., District of Columbia, US

2011 | NASA's Group Achievement Award to the ICESCAPE Team
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Melinda Webster

Works (49)

In situ observations of sea ice

Reference Module in Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences
2024 | Book chapter
DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-323-85242-5.00006-3
Part of ISBN: 9780124095489
Contributors: Melinda A. Webster; Ignatius Rigor
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Melinda Webster

Summer snow on Arctic sea ice modulated by the Arctic Oscillation

Nature Geoscience
2024-09-06 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1038/s41561-024-01525-y
Part of ISSN: 1752-0894
Part of ISSN: 1752-0908
Contributors: Melinda Webster; Aku Riihelä; Sahra Kacimi; Thomas J. Ballinger; Edward Blanchard-Wrigglesworth; Chelsea L. Parker; Linette Boisvert
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Melinda Webster

Model Biases in Simulating Extreme Sea Ice Loss Associated With the Record January 2022 Arctic Cyclone

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
2024-08 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1029/2024jc021127
Part of ISSN: 2169-9275
Part of ISSN: 2169-9291
Contributors: Edward Blanchard-Wrigglesworth; Samuel Brenner; Melinda Webster; Christopher Horvat; Øyvind Foss; Cecilia Bitz
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Melinda Webster

The Effects of Summer Snowfall on Arctic Sea Ice Radiative Forcing

Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
2024-07-28 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1029/2023jd040667
Part of ISSN: 2169-897X
Part of ISSN: 2169-8996
Contributors: Hannah Chapman-Dutton; Melinda Webster
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Melinda Webster

Sea ice mass balance during the MOSAiC drift experiment: Results from manual ice and snow thickness gauges

Elem Sci Anth
2024-07-09 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1525/elementa.2023.00040
Part of ISSN: 2325-1026
Contributors: Ian Raphael; Donald K. Perovich; Christopher M. Polashenski; David Clemens-Sewall; Polona Itkin; Ruibo Lei; Marcel Nicolaus; Julia Regnery; Madison M. Smith; Melinda Webster et al.
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Melinda Webster

Inter-comparison of melt pond products from optical satellite imagery

Remote Sensing of Environment
2024-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2023.113920
Part of ISSN: 0034-4257
Contributors: Sanggyun Lee; Julienne Stroeve; Melinda Webster; Niels Fuchs; Donald K. Perovich
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Melinda Webster

The importance of sub-meter-scale snow roughness on conductive heat flux of Arctic sea ice

Journal of Glaciology
2024-01-04 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1017/jog.2023.105
Part of ISSN: 0022-1430
Part of ISSN: 1727-5652
Contributors: David Clemens-Sewall; Chris Polashenski; Don Perovich; Melinda Webster
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Melinda Webster

Rainy Days in the Arctic

Journal of Climate
2023-10-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1175/jcli-d-22-0428.1
Part of ISSN: 0894-8755
Part of ISSN: 1520-0442
Contributors: Linette Boisvert; Melinda A. Webster; Chelsea L. Parker; Richard M. Forbes
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Melinda Webster

Thin and transient meltwater layers and false bottoms in the Arctic sea ice pack—Recent insights on these historically overlooked features

Elem Sci Anth
2023-09-07 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1525/elementa.2023.00025
Part of ISSN: 2325-1026
Contributors: Madison M. Smith; Hélène Angot; Emelia J. Chamberlain; Elise S. Droste; Salar Karam; Morven Muilwijk; Alison L. Webb; Stephen D. Archer; Ivo Beck; Byron W. Blomquist et al.
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Melinda Webster

Observing the evolution of summer melt on multiyear sea ice with ICESat-2 and Sentinel-2

The Cryosphere
2023-08-31 | Journal article
DOI: 10.5194/tc-17-3695-2023
Part of ISSN: 1994-0424
Contributors: Ellen Buckley; Sinéad L. Farrell; Ute C. Herzfeld; Melinda A. Webster; Thomas Trantow; Oliwia N. Baney; Kyle A. Duncan; Huilin Han; Matthew Lawson
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Melinda Webster

A Database of Snow on Sea Ice in the Central Arctic Collected during the MOSAiC expedition

Scientific Data
2023-06-22 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41597-023-02273-1
Part of ISSN: 2052-4463
Contributors: Amy R. Macfarlane; Martin Schneebeli; Ruzica Dadic; Aikaterini Tavri; Antonia Immerz; Chris Polashenski; Daniela Krampe; David Clemens-Sewall; David N. Wagner; Donald K. Perovich et al.
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Melinda Webster

Relationships between summertime surface albedo and melt pond fraction in the central Arctic Ocean: The aggregate scale of albedo obtained on the MOSAiC floe

Elem Sci Anth
2023-06-15 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1525/elementa.2023.00001
Part of ISSN: 2325-1026
Contributors: Radiance Calmer; Gijs de Boer; Jonathan Hamilton; Dale Lawrence; Melinda A. Webster; Nicholas Wright; Matthew D. Shupe; Christopher J. Cox; John J. Cassano
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Melinda Webster

Evolution of the microstructure and reflectance of the surface scattering layer on melting, level Arctic sea ice

Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene
2023-04-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1525/elementa.2022.00103
Part of ISSN: 2325-1026
Contributors: Amy R. Macfarlane; Ruzica Dadic; Madison M. Smith; Bonnie Light; Marcel Nicolaus; Hannula Henna-Reetta; Melinda Webster; Felix Linhardt; Stefan Hämmerle; Martin Schneebeli
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Melinda Webster

Temporal evolution of under-ice meltwater layers and false bottoms and their impact on summer Arctic sea ice mass balance

Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene
2023-03-31 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1525/elementa.2022.00035
Part of ISSN: 2325-1026
Contributors: Evgenii Salganik; Christian Katlein; Benjamin A. Lange; Ilkka Matero; Ruibo Lei; Allison A. Fong; Steven W. Fons; Dmitry Divine; Marc Oggier; Giulia Castellani et al.
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Sea Ice Melt Pond Fraction Derived From Sentinel‐2 Data: Along the MOSAiC Drift and Arctic‐Wide

Geophysical Research Letters
2023-03-16 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1029/2022gl102102
Part of ISSN: 0094-8276
Part of ISSN: 1944-8007
Contributors: Hannah Niehaus; Gunnar Spreen; Gerit Birnbaum; Larysa Istomina; Evelyn Jäkel; Felix Linhardt; Niklas Neckel; Niels Fuchs; Marcel Nicolaus; Tim Sperzel et al.
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Melinda Webster

Alaska terrestrial and marine climate trends, 1957-2021

Journal of Climate
2023-03-10 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1175/jcli-d-22-0434.1
Part of ISSN: 0894-8755
Part of ISSN: 1520-0442
Contributors: Thomas J. Ballinger; Uma S. Bhatt; Peter A. Bieniek; Brian Brettschneider; Rick T. Lader; Jeremy S. Littell; Richard L. Thoman; Christine F. Waigl; John E. Walsh; Melinda A. Webster
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Melinda Webster

Preconditioning of Summer Melt Ponds From Winter Sea Ice Surface Temperature

Geophysical Research Letters
2023-02-28 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1029/2022gl101493
Part of ISSN: 0094-8276
Part of ISSN: 1944-8007
Contributors: Linda Thielke; Niels Fuchs; Gunnar Spreen; Bruno Tremblay; Gerit Birnbaum; Marcus Huntemann; Nils Hutter; Polona Itkin; Arttu Jutila; Melinda Webster
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Melinda Webster

Sea ice and snow characteristics from year-long transects at the MOSAiC Central Observatory

Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene
2023-02-16 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1525/elementa.2022.00048
Part of ISSN: 2325-1026
Contributors: Polona Itkin; Stefan Hendricks; Melinda Webster; Luisa von Albedyll; Stefanie Arndt; Dmitry Divine; Matthias Jaggi; Marc Oggier; Ian Raphael; Robert Ricker et al.
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Melinda Webster

Database of daily Lagrangian Arctic sea ice parcel drift tracks with coincident ice and atmospheric conditions

Scientific Data
2023-02-04 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41597-023-01987-6
Part of ISSN: 2052-4463
Contributors: Sean Horvath; Linette Boisvert; Chelsea Parker; Melinda Webster; Patrick Taylor; Robyn Boeke; Steven Fons; J. Scott Stewart
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Melinda Webster

Observing Arctic Sea Ice

Oceanography
2022 | Journal article
DOI: 10.5670/oceanog.2022.115
Part of ISSN: 1042-8275
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Melinda Webster

Record Arctic Cyclone of January 2022: Characteristics, Impacts, and Predictability

Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
2022-11-16 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1029/2022jd037161
Part of ISSN: 2169-897X
Part of ISSN: 2169-8996
Contributors: Edward Blanchard-Wrigglesworth; Melinda Webster; Linette Boisvert; Chelsea Parker; Christopher Horvat
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The influence of recent and future climate change on spring Arctic cyclones

Nature Communications
2022-11-09 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-34126-7
Part of ISSN: 2041-1723
Contributors: Chelsea Parker; Priscilla A. Mooney; Melinda Webster; Linette N. Boisvert
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Melinda Webster

Regional Geoengineering Using Tiny Glass Bubbles Would Accelerate the Loss of Arctic Sea Ice

Earth's Future
2022-10 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1029/2022ef002815
Part of ISSN: 2328-4277
Part of ISSN: 2328-4277
Contributors: Melinda Webster; Stephen Warren
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Melinda Webster

Arctic sea ice albedo: Spectral composition, spatial heterogeneity, and temporal evolution observed during the MOSAiC drift

Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene
2022-08-04 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1525/elementa.2021.000103
Part of ISSN: 2325-1026
Contributors: Melinda Webster; Bonnie Light; Madison M. Smith; Donald K. Perovich; Melinda A. Webster; Marika M. Holland; Felix Linhardt; Ian A. Raphael; David Clemens-Sewall; Amy R. Macfarlane et al.
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Melinda Webster

Quantifying false bottoms and under-ice meltwater layers beneath Arctic summer sea ice with fine-scale observations

Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene
2022-07-11 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1525/elementa.2021.000116
Part of ISSN: 2325-1026
Contributors: Melinda Webster; Madison M. Smith; Luisa von Albedyll; Ian A. Raphael; Benjamin A. Lange; Ilkka Matero; Evgenii Salganik; Melinda A. Webster; Mats A. Granskog; Allison Fong et al.
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Melinda Webster

Toward a more realistic representation of surface albedo in NASA CERES-derived surface radiative fluxes

Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene
2022-06-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1525/elementa.2022.00013
Part of ISSN: 2325-1026
Contributors: Melinda Webster; Yiyi Huang; Patrick C. Taylor; Fred G. Rose; David A. Rutan; Matthew D. Shupe; Melinda A. Webster; Madison M. Smith
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Melinda Webster

Spatiotemporal evolution of melt ponds on Arctic sea ice: MOSAiC observations and model results

Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene
2022-05-11 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1525/elementa.2021.000072
Part of ISSN: 2325-1026
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Melinda Webster

Less Surface Sea Ice Melt in the CESM2 Improves Arctic Sea Ice Simulation With Minimal Non‐Polar Climate Impacts

Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
2022-04 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1029/2021ms002679
Part of ISSN: 1942-2466
Part of ISSN: 1942-2466
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Melinda Webster

Thermodynamic and dynamic contributions to seasonal Arctic sea ice thickness distributions from airborne observations

Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene
2022-04-18 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1525/elementa.2021.00074
Part of ISSN: 2325-1026
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Melinda Webster

Overview of the MOSAiC expedition: Snow and sea ice

Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene
2022-02-07 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1525/elementa.2021.000046
Part of ISSN: 2325-1026
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Melinda Webster

The influence of snow on sea ice as assessed from simulations of CESM2

The Cryosphere
2021-10-28 | Journal article
DOI: 10.5194/tc-15-4981-2021
Part of ISSN: 1994-0424
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Melinda Webster

Meltwater sources and sinks for multiyear Arctic sea ice in summer

The Cryosphere
2021-09-27 | Journal article
DOI: 10.5194/tc-15-4517-2021
Part of ISSN: 1994-0424
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Melinda Webster

Interannual variability in Transpolar Drift summer sea ice thickness and potential impact of Atlantification

The Cryosphere
2021-06-15 | Journal article
DOI: 10.5194/tc-15-2575-2021
Part of ISSN: 1994-0424
Contributors: H. Jakob Bünger; Thomas Krumpen; Luisa von Albedyll; Tatiana Alekseeva; Gerit Birnbaum; Sergei V. Frolov; Stefan Hendricks; Andreas Herber; Igor Polyakov; Ian Raphael et al.
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Melinda Webster

Snow on Arctic Sea Ice in a Warming Climate as Simulated in CESM

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
2021-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1029/2020jc016308
Part of ISSN: 2169-9275
Part of ISSN: 2169-9291
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Melinda Webster

Intercomparison of Precipitation Estimates over the Southern Ocean from Atmospheric Reanalyses

Journal of Climate
2020-12-15 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1175/jcli-d-20-0044.1
Part of ISSN: 0894-8755
Part of ISSN: 1520-0442
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Melinda Webster

Decay of the Snow Cover Over Arctic Sea Ice From ICESat‐2 Acquisitions During Summer Melt in 2019

Geophysical Research Letters
2020-06-28 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1029/2020gl088209
Part of ISSN: 0094-8276
Part of ISSN: 1944-8007
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Melinda Webster

Going with the floe: tracking CESM Large Ensemble sea ice in the Arctic provides context for ship-based observations

The Cryosphere
2020-04-20 | Journal article
DOI: 10.5194/tc-14-1259-2020
Part of ISSN: 1994-0424
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Melinda Webster

Arctic Snow Depth and Sea Ice Thickness From ICESat‐2 and CryoSat‐2 Freeboards: A First Examination

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
2020-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1029/2019jc016008
Part of ISSN: 2169-9275
Part of ISSN: 2169-9291
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Melinda Webster

The role of cyclone activity in snow accumulation on Arctic sea ice

Nature Communications
2019-11-21 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-13299-8
ISSN: 2041-1723
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Melinda Webster

Melt Pond Conditions on Declining Arctic Sea Ice Over 1979–2016: Model Development, Validation, and Results

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
2018-11 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1029/2018jc014298
Part of ISSN: 2169-9275
Part of ISSN: 2169-9291
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Melinda Webster

The NASA Eulerian Snow on Sea Ice Model (NESOSIM) v1.0: initial model development and analysis

Geoscientific Model Development
2018-11-16 | Journal article
DOI: 10.5194/gmd-2018-84
DOI: 10.5194/gmd-11-4577-2018
Part of ISSN: 1991-962X
Part of ISSN: 1991-9603
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Melinda Webster
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Snow in the changing sea-ice systems

Nature Climate Change
2018-10-29 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41558-018-0286-7
ISSN: 1758-678X
ISSN: 1758-6798
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Melinda Webster

Intercomparison of Precipitation Estimates Over the Arctic Ocean and its peripheral seas from Reanalyses

Journal of Climate
2018-08-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1175/jcli-d-18-0125.1
Part of ISSN: 0894-8755
Contributors: Linette N. Boisvert; Melinda A. Webster; Alek A. Petty; Thorsten Markus; David H. Bromwich; Richard I. Cullather
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Reconstruction of Snow on Arctic Sea Ice

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
2018-05 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/2017jc013364
Part of ISSN: 2169-9275
Contributors: E. Blanchard-Wrigglesworth; M. A. Webster; S. L. Farrell; C. M. Bitz
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Intercomparison of snow depth retrievals over Arctic sea ice from radar data acquired by Operation IceBridge

Cryosphere
2017 | Journal article
DOI: 10.5194/tc-11-2571-2017
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2-s2.0-85034114929
Contributors: Kwok, R.; Kurtz, N.T.; Brucker, L.; Ivanoff, A.; Newman, T.; Farrell, S.L.; King, J.; Howell, S.; Webster, M.A.; Paden, J. et al.
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Optical properties of melting first-year Arctic sea ice

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
2015 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/2015JC011163
EID:

2-s2.0-84956767738
Contributors: Light, B.; Perovich, D.K.; Webster, M.A.; Polashenski, C.; Dadic, R.
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Physical and morphological properties of sea ice in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas during the 2010 and 2011 NASA ICESCAPE missions

Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography
2015 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2015.04.006
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2-s2.0-84938748639
Contributors: Polashenski, C.; Perovich, D.K.; Frey, K.E.; Cooper, L.W.; Logvinova, C.I.; Dadic, R.; Light, B.; Kelly, H.P.; Trusel, L.D.; Webster, M.
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Seasonal evolution of melt ponds on Arctic sea ice

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
2015 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/2015JC011030
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2-s2.0-84944679124
Contributors: Webster, M.A.; Rigor, I.G.; Perovich, D.K.; Richter-Menge, J.A.; Polashenski, C.M.; Light, B.
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Interdecadal changes in snow depth on Arctic sea ice

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
2014-08 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/2014jc009985
Part of ISSN: 2169-9275
Contributors: Melinda A. Webster; Ignatius G. Rigor; Son V. Nghiem; Nathan T. Kurtz; Sinead L. Farrell; Donald K. Perovich; Matthew Sturm
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