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Arctic sea ice concentration is often coarsely observed and numerically computed despite its importance for polar climate system. In this work we present three machine-learning methods to recover the original high-resolution images from the…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2021-09-02 Jun Zhai , Cecilia M. Bitz

In situ and remotely sensed observations have potential to facilitate data-driven predictive models for oceanography. A suite of machine learning models, including regression, decision tree and deep learning approaches were developed to…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Stefan Wolff , Fearghal O'Donncha , Bei Chen

Machine learning and statistical tools are applied to identify how parameters, such as temperature, influence peak stress and ice behavior. To enable the analysis, a common and small scale experimental data base is established.

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2019-03-13 Leon Kellner , Merten Stender , Hauke Herrnring , Rüdiger U. Franz von Bock und Polach , Sören Ehlers , Norbert Hoffmann , Knut V. Høyland

A model-data inversion is applied to a very large observational dataset collected in the Southern Ocean north of the Ross Sea during late autumn to early winter, producing estimates of the frequency-dependent rate of dissipation by sea ice.…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2020-06-16 W. Erick Rogers , Michael H. Meylan , Alison L. Kohout

Sea ice motions play an important role in the polar climate system by transporting pollutants, heat, water and salt as well as changing the ice cover. Numerous physics-based models have been constructed to represent the sea ice dynamical…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2021-08-26 Jun Zhai , Cecilia M. Bitz

Arctic sea ice plays an important role in the global climate. Sea ice models governed by physical equations have been used to simulate the state of the ice including characteristics such as ice thickness, concentration, and motion. More…

Climate science is critical for understanding both the causes and consequences of changes in global temperatures and has become imperative for decisive policy-making. However, climate science studies commonly require addressing complex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Juan Carrillo , Daniel Garijo , Mark Crowley , Rober Carrillo , Yolanda Gil , Katherine Borda

Sea ice, crucial to the Arctic and Earth's climate, requires consistent monitoring and high-resolution mapping. Manual sea ice mapping, however, is time-consuming and subjective, prompting the need for automated deep learning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Behzad Vahedi , Benjamin Lucas , Farnoush Banaei-Kashani , Andrew P. Barrett , Walter N. Meier , Siri Jodha Khalsa , Morteza Karimzadeh

In this study we perform online sea ice bias correction within a GFDL global ice-ocean model. For this, we use a convolutional neural network (CNN) which was developed in a previous study (Gregory et al., 2023) for the purpose of predicting…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2024-02-01 William Gregory , Mitchell Bushuk , Yongfei Zhang , Alistair Adcroft , Laure Zanna

Deploying deep learning on Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data is becoming more common for mapping purposes. One such case is sea ice, which is highly dynamic and rapidly changes as a result of the combined effect of wind, temperature, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Morteza Karimzadeh , Rafael Pires de Lima

This research presents a novel application of computer vision (CV) and deep learning methods for real-time sea state recognition, aiming to contribute to improving the operational safety and energy efficiency of seagoing vessels, key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Aleksandar Vorkapic , Miran Pobar , Marina Ivasic-Kos

Accurately forecasting Arctic sea ice from subseasonal to seasonal scales has been a major scientific effort with fundamental challenges at play. In addition to physics-based earth system models, researchers have been applying multiple…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2022-02-09 Sahara Ali , Yiyi Huang , Xin Huang , Jianwu Wang

Lake ice, as part of the Essential Climate Variable (ECV) lakes, is an important indicator to monitor climate change and global warming. The spatio-temporal extent of lake ice cover, along with the timings of key phenological events such as…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-08 Manu Tom , Roberto Aguilar , Pascal Imhof , Silvan Leinss , Emmanuel Baltsavias , Konrad Schindler

Sea ice plays a critical role in the global climate system and maritime operations, making timely and accurate classification essential. However, traditional manual methods are time-consuming, costly, and have inherent biases. Automating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Samira Alkaee Taleghan , Andrew P. Barrett , Walter N. Meier , Farnoush Banaei-Kashani

The deep learning, which is a dominating technique in artificial intelligence, has completely changed the image understanding over the past decade. As a consequence, the sea ice extraction (SIE) problem has reached a new era. We present a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Anzhu Yu , Wenjun Huang , Qing Xu , Qun Sun , Wenyue Guo , Song Ji , Bowei Wen , Chunping Qiu

Variation of Arctic sea ice has significant impacts on polar ecosystems, transporting routes, coastal communities, and global climate. Tracing the change of sea ice at a finer scale is paramount for both operational applications and…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2024-10-15 Jingyi Xu , Siwei Tu , Weidong Yang , Shuhao Li , Keyi Liu , Yeqi Luo , Lipeng Ma , Ben Fei , Lei Bai

The Marginal Ice Zone is a highly dynamic region where the atmosphere, ocean, waves and sea ice meet. Waves play a fundamental role in this coupled system, but progress in our understanding of wave-ice interactions is currently hindered by…

Geophysics · Physics 2023-05-12 J. J. Voermans , J. Rabault , A. Marchenko , T. Nose , T. Waseda , A. V. Babanin

Accurate estimation of sea ice drift is critical for Arctic navigation, climate research, and operational forecasting. While optical flow, a computer vision technique for estimating pixel wise motion between consecutive images, has advanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Daniela Martin , Joseph Gallego

Rapid changes in Earth's cryosphere caused by human activity can lead to significant environmental impacts. Computer models provide a useful tool for understanding the behavior and projecting the future of Arctic and Antarctic ice sheets.…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-08-01 Won Chang , Bledar A. Konomi , Georgios Karagiannis , Yawen Guan , Murali Haran

As an increasing amount of remote sensing data becomes available in the Arctic Ocean, data-driven machine learning (ML) techniques are becoming widely used to predict sea ice velocity (SIV) and sea ice concentration (SIC). However, fully…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Younghyun Koo , Maryam Rahnemoonfar
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