{"id":63363,"date":"2025-03-11T23:39:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T23:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=63363"},"modified":"2025-03-13T22:45:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T22:45:13","slug":"ice-leads-in-the-eastern-beaufort-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/63363","title":{"rendered":"Ice leads in the eastern Beaufort Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Suomi-NPP VIIRS Visible images from 07-11 March [click to play animated GIF | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>A sequence of Suomi-NPP VIIRS Visible images (above)<\/strong><\/em> showed the formation of large ice leads in the eastern Beaufort Sea — as well as the growth of a polynya adjacent to the coast near the Alaska\/Yukon border — during the 5-day period from 07-11 March 2025.<\/p>\n

Suomi-NPP VIIRS Shortwave Infrared images (below)<\/strong><\/em> provided a view of the ice leads and polynya during both the nighttime and daytime hours during the 07-11 March period.<\/p>\n

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Suomi-NPP VIIRS Shortwave Infrared images from 07-11 March [click to play animated GIF | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>Daily composites of Suomi-NPP VIIRS Sea Ice Temperature\/Thickness\/Age products (source<\/strong><\/a>) indicated that the larger ice leads were developing near the gradient of temperature and thickness of old ice in the eastern Beaufort Sea (below)<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Daily Suomi-NPP VIIRS Composite Sea Ice Temperature product, from 07-10 March [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n

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Daily Suomi-NPP VIIRS Composite Sea Ice Thickness product, from 07-10 March [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>
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Suomi-NPP VIIRS Composite Sea Ice Age product, from 07-10 March [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>In spite of lower spatial resolution and a large satellite viewing angle, the more prominent ice leads (as well as the polynya adjacent to the Alaska\/Yukon coast) were also apparent in GOES-18 (GOES-West)<\/em> Visible images from the CSPP GeoSphere<\/strong><\/a> site (below)<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

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GOES-18 Visible images from 07-11 March [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>Comparisons of Ice Stage and Ice Analysis (source<\/strong><\/a>) shown below indicated that the 2 largest ice leads and the polynya formed during the 7-day period between 03 March and 10 March.<\/p>\n

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Ice Stage on 03 March and 10 March [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n

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Ice analysis on 03 March and 10 March [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A sequence of Suomi-NPP VIIRS Visible images (above) showed the formation of large ice leads in the eastern Beaufort Sea — as well as the growth of a polynya adjacent to the coast near the Alaska\/Yukon border — during the 5-day period from 07-11 March 2025. Suomi-NPP VIIRS Shortwave Infrared images (below) provided a view […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":63487,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,108,114,49,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arctic","category-cryosphere","category-goes-18","category-suomi_npp","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63363"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63478,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63363\/revisions\/63478"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}