University of Calgary|Université de Calgary

Purpose

Increasing variable and unpredictable sea ice conditions in Canadian Arctic waters require the development of technologies for enhancing domain awareness, mitigation hazards, and understanding environmental change. As part of Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC), researchers in the project, committed to understanding the consequences of Arctic climate change, are deploying microwave scatterometer systems on the sea ice in order to collect snow and sea ice geophysical property measurements, microwave scatterometer measurements, and multi-sensor satellite observations. Data collected will enable researchers to develop information products, addressing the social and environmental consequences of rapidly changing ice conditions in Canadian waters, decreasing risks from sea-ice associated hazards, and improving the accuracy of short-term weather and sea ice forecast.