Peer-reviewed Publications

2025

• Kortum, K., S. Singha, & G. Spreen (2024, in review for TC). Sea Ice Freeboard Extrapolation from ICESat-2 to Sentinel-1. EGUsphere [preprint]. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-3351
• Niehaus, H., G. Spreen, L. Istomina, & M. Nicolaus (2024, in review for TC). Regional and seasonal evolution of melt ponds on Arctic sea ice. EGUsphere [preprint]. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-3127
• Murashkin, D., G. Spreen, M. Huntemann (2024, preprint). Pan-Arctic Lead Maps based on Sentinel-1 SAR Images with a Convolutional Neural Network. Preprints 2024, 2024090905. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202409.0905.v1
• Kojoj, J., G. Pereira Freitas, M. Muilwijk, M.A. Granskog, T. Naakka, A.M.L. Ekman, B. Heutte, J. Schmale, A. Da Silva, R. Lapere, L. Marelle, J. L. Thomas, C. Melsheimer,  B. J. Murray, and P. Zieger (2024, submitted). An Arctic marine source of fluorescent primary biological aerosol particles during the transition from summer to autumn at the North Pole. Submitted to Tellus.
• Rückert, J. E., A. Walbröl, N. Risse, P. Krobot, R. Haseneder-Lind, M. Mech, K. Ebell, & G. Spreen (2024, submitted). Measuring microwave sea ice and ocean brightness temperature and emissivity between 22 and 243 GHz by ship-based radiometers with rotatable mirrors. Submitted to Ann. Glaciol., 65(92).
• Istomina, L., H. Niehaus, & G. Spreen (2023, in review for TC). Updated Arctic melt pond fraction dataset and trends 2002–2023 using ENVISAT and Sentinel-3 remote sensing data. The Cryosphere Discuss. [preprint]. doi:10.5194/tc-2023-142

• Crewell, S., K. Ebell, P. Konjari, M. Mech, T. Nomokonova, A. Radovan, D. Strack, A. M. Triana-Gómez, S. Noël, R. Scarlat, G. Spreen, M. Maturilli, A. Rinke, I. Gorodetskaya, C. Viceto, T. August, & M. Schröder (2021). A systematic assessment of water vapor products in the Arctic: from instantaneous measurements to monthly means. Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 4829–4856. doi:10.5194/amt-14-4829-2021 [Article (PDF file)]
• Krumpen, T., L. von Albedyll, H. F. Goessling, S. Hendricks, B. Juhls, G. Spreen, S. Willmes, H. J. Belter, K. Dethloff, C. Haas, L. Kaleschke, C. Katlein, X. Tian-Kunze, R. Ricker, P. Rostosky, J. Rückert, S. Singha, & J. Sokolova (2021). MOSAiC drift expedition from October 2019 to July 2020: sea ice conditions from space and comparison with previous years. The Cryosphere, 15, 3897–3920. doi:10.5194/tc-15-3897-2021 [Article (PDF file)]
• Mei, L., V. Rozanov, C. Pohl, M. Vountas, & J. P. Burrows (2021). The retrieval of snow properties from SLSTR Sentinel-3 - Part 1: Method description and sensitivity study. The Cryosphere, 15, 2757–2780. doi:10.5194/tc-15-2757-2021
• Paul, S., & M. Huntemann (2021). Improved machine-learning-based open-water–sea-ice–cloud discrimination over wintertime Antarctic sea ice using MODIS thermal-infrared imagery. The Cryosphere, 15, 1551–1565. doi:10.5194/tc-15-1551-2021
• Rösel, A., S. L. Farrell, V. Nandan, J. Richter-Menge, G. Spreen, D. V. Divine, A. Steer, J.-C. Gallet, & S. Gerland (2021). Implications of surface flooding on airborne estimates of snow depth on sea ice. The Cryosphere, 15, 2819–2833. doi:10.5194/tc-15-2819-2021 [Article (PDF file)]
• Shi, Q., J. Su, G. Heygster, J. Shi, L. Wang, L. Zhu, Q. Lou, & V. Ludwig (2021). Step-by-Step Validation of Antarctic ASI AMSR-E Sea-Ice Concentrations by MODIS and an Aerial Image. IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sensing, 59(1), 392–403. doi:10.1109/tgrs.2020.2989037
• Wendisch, M., D. Handorf, I. Tegen, R. A. J. Neggers, & G. Spreen (2021). Glimpsing the ins and outs of the Arctic atmospheric cauldron, Eos, 102. doi:10.1029/2021EO155959
• Zhou, L., J. Stroeve, S. Xu, A. Petty, R. Tilling, M. Winstrup, P. Rostosky, I. R. Lawrence, G. E. Liston, A. Ridout, M. Tsamados, & V. Nandan (2021). Inter-comparison of snow depth over Arctic sea ice from reanalysis reconstructions and satellite retrieval. The Cryosphere, 15(1), 345–367. doi:10.5194/tc-15-345-2021 [Article (PDF file)]
• Zúñiga, D., A. Sanchez-Vidal, M. M. Flexas, D. Carroll, M. M. Rufino, G. Spreen, A. Calafat, & F. Abrantes (2021). Sinking Diatom Assemblages as a Key Driver for Deep Carbon and Silicon Export in the Scotia Sea (Southern Ocean). Front. Earth Sci., 9:579198. doi:10.3389/feart.2021.579198 [Article (PDF file)]

• Duarte, P., A. Sundfjord, A. Meyer, S. R. Hudson, G. Spreen, & L. H. Smedsrud (2020). Warm Atlantic Water explains observed sea ice melt rates north of Svalbard. J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, 125(8), e2019JC015662. doi:10.1029/2019JC015662 [Article (PDF file)]
• Istomina, L., H. Marks, M. Huntemann, G. Heygster, & G. Spreen (2020). Improved cloud detection over sea ice and snow during Arctic summer using MERIS data. Atmos. Meas. Tech., 13, 6459–6472. doi:10.5194/amt-13-6459-2020 [Article (PDF file)]
• Ludwig, V., G. Spreen, & L. T. Pedersen (2020). Evaluation of a New Merged Sea-Ice Concentration Dataset at 1 km Resolution from Thermal Infrared and Passive Microwave Satellite Data in the Arctic. Remote Sens.  12(19), 3183. doi:10.3390/rs12193183 [Article (PDF file)]
• Mäkynen, M., J. Haapala, G. Aulicino, B. Balan-Sarojini, M. Balmaseda, A. Gegiuc , F. Girard-Ardhuin, S. Hendricks, G. Heygster, L. Istomina, L. Kaleschke, J. Karvonen, T. Krumpen, M. Lensu, M. Mayer, F. Parmiggiani, R. Ricker, E. Rinne, A. Schmitt , M. Similä , S. Tietsche, R. Tonboe, P. Wadhams, M. Winstrup, & H. Zuo (2020). Satellite Observations for Detecting and Forecasting Sea-Ice Conditions: A Summary of Advances Made in the SPICES Project by the EU’s Horizon 2020 Programme. Remote Sens., 12(7), 1214. doi:10.3390/rs12071214
• Munoz-Martin, J. F., A. Perez, A. Camps, S. Ribó, E. Cardellach, J. Stroeve, V. Nandan, P. Itkin, R. Tonboe, S. Hendricks, M. Huntemann, G. Spreen & M. Pastena (2020). Snow and Ice Thickness Retrievals Using GNSS-R: Preliminary Results of the MOSAiC Experiment. Remote Sensing, 12(24), 4038. doi:10.3390/rs12244038 [Article (PDF file)]
• Pohl, C., L. Istomina, S. Tietsche, E. Jäkel, J. Stapf, G. Spreen, & G. Heygster (2020). Broadband albedo of Arctic sea ice from MERIS optical data. The Cryosphere, 14, 165–182. doi:10.5194/tc-14-165-2020 [Article (PDF file)]
• Pohl, C., V. V. Rozanov, M. Wendisch, G. Spreen, & G. Heygster (2020). Impact of the near-field effects on radiative transfer simulations of the bidirectional reflectance factor and albedo of a densely packed snow layer. J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer, 241, 106704. doi:10.1016/j.jqsrt.2019.106704 [Article (PDF file)]
• Pohl, C., V. V. Rozanov, L. Mei, J. P. Burrows, G. Heygster, & G. Spreen (2020). Implementation of an ice crystal single-scattering property database in the radiative transfer model SCIATRAN. J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer, 253, 107118. doi:10.1016/j.jqsrt.2020.107118 [Article (PDF file)]
• Rostosky, P., G. Spreen, S. Gerland, M. Huntemann, & M. Mech (2020). Modeling the Microwave Emission of Snow on Arctic Sea Ice for Estimating the Uncertainty of Satellite Retrieval. J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, 125(3), e2019JC015465. doi:10.1029/2019JC015465 [Article (PDF file)]
• Scarlat, R. C., G. Spreen, G. Heygster, M. Huntemann, C. Patilea, L. T. Pedersen, & R. Saldo (2020). Sea Ice and Atmospheric Parameter Retrieval From Satellite Microwave Radiometers: Synergy of AMSR2 and SMOS Compared With the CIMR Candidate Mission. J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, 125(3), e2019JC015749. doi:10.1029/2019JC015749 [Article (PDF file)]
• Spreen, G., L. de Steur, D. Divine, E. Hansen, S. Gerland, & R. Kwok (2020). Arctic Sea Ice Volume Export through Fram Strait From 1992 to 2014. J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, 125, e2019JC016039. doi:10.1029/2019JC016039 [Article (PDF file)]
• Stroeve, J., V. Nandan, R. Willatt, R. Tonboe, S. Hendricks, R. Ricker, J. Mead, R. Mallett, M. Huntemann, P. Itkin, M. Schneebeli, D. Krampe, G. Spreen, J. Wilkinson, I. Matero, M. Hoppmann & M. Tsamados (2020). Surface-based Ku- and Ka-band polarimetric radar for sea ice studies. The Cryosphere, 14(12), 4405-4426. doi:10.5194/tc-14-4405-2020 [Article (PDF file)]
• Tarroux, A., Y. Cherel, P. Fauchald, A. Kato, O. Love, Y. Ropert-Coudert, G. Spreen, Ø. Varpe, H. Weimerskirch, N. Yoccoz, S. Zahn, S. Descamps (2020). Foraging tactics in dynamic sea-ice habitats affect individual state in a long-ranging seabird. Funct. Ecol., 34(9), 1839-1856. doi:10.1111/1365-2435.13632 [Article (PDF file)]
• Tong, K. P., C. C. M. Kyba, G. Heygster, H. U. Kuechly, J. Notholt, & Z. Kolláth (2020). Angular distribution of upwelling artificial light in Europe as observed by Suomi–NPP satellite. J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transf., 249, 107009. doi:10.1016/j.jqsrt.2020.107009
• Triana-Gómez, A. M., G. Heygster, C. Melsheimer, G. Spreen, M. Negusini, & B. H. Petkov (2020). Improved water vapour retrieval from AMSU-B and MHS in the Arctic. Atmos. Meas. Tech., 13, 3697–3715. doi:10.5194/amt-13-3697-2020 [Article (PDF file)]
• Yu, X., A. Rinke, W. Dorn, G. Spreen, C. Lüpkes, H. Sumata, & V. M. Gryanik (2020). Evaluation of Arctic sea ice drift and its dependency on near-surface wind and sea ice conditions in the coupled regional climate model HIRHAM-NAOSIM. The Cryosphere, 14, 1727–1746. doi:10.5194/tc-14-1727-2020 [Article (PDF file)]

• Fritzner, S., R. Graversen, K. H. Christensen, P. Rostosky, & K. Wang (2019). Impact of assimilating sea ice concentration, sea ice thickness and snow depth in a coupled ocean–sea ice modelling system. The Cryosphere, 13, 491–509. doi:10.5194/tc-13-491-2019 [Article (PDF file)]
• Graham, R., P. Itkin , A. Meyer, A. Sundfjord, G. Spreen, L. H. Smedsrud, G. E. Liston, B. Cheng, L. Cohen, D. Divine, I. Fer, A. Fransson, S. Gerland, J. Haapala, S. R. Hudson, A. M. Johansson, J. King, I. Merkouriadi, A. K. Peterson, C. Provost, A. Randelhoff, A. Rinke, A. Rösel, N. Sennéchael, V. P. Walden, P. Duarte, P. Assmy, H. Steen, & M. A. Granskog (2019). Winter storms accelerate the demise of sea ice in the Atlantic Sector of the Arctic Ocean. Scientific Reports, 9, 9222. doi:10.1038/s41598-019-45574-5 [Article (PDF file)]
• Kilic, L., R. T. Tonboe, C. Prigent, & G. Heygster (2019). Estimating the snow depth, the snow–ice interface temperature, and the effective temperature of Arctic sea ice using Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer and ice mass balance buoy data. The Cryosphere, 13, 1283–1296. doi:10.5194/tc-13-1283-2019 [Article (PDF file)]
• Lavergne, T., A. M. Sørensen, S. Kern, R. Tonboe, D. Notz, S. Aaboe, L. Bell, G. Dybkjær, S. Eastwood, C. Gabarro, G. Heygster, M. A. Killie, M. Brandt Kreiner, J. Lavelle, R. Saldo, S. Sandven, & L. T. Pedersen (2019). Version 2 of the EUMETSAT OSI SAF and ESA CCI sea-ice concentration climate data records, The Cryosphere, 13, 49–78. doi:10.5194/tc-13-49-2019 [Article (PDF file)]
• Liu, J., Z. Chen, Y. Hu, Y. Zhang, Y. Ding, X. Cheng, Q. Yang, L. Nerger, G. Spreen, R. Horton, J. Inoue, C. Yang, M. Li, & M. Song (2019). Towards reliable Arctic sea ice prediction using multivariate data assimilation. Science Bulletin, 64, 63–72. doi:10.1016/j.scib.2018.11.018
• Ludwig, V., G. Spreen, C. Haas, L. Istomina, F. Kauker, & D. Murashkin (2019). The 2018 North Greenland polynya observed by a newly introduced merged optical and passive microwave sea-ice concentration dataset. The Cryosphere, 13(7), 2051–2073. doi:10.5194/tc-13-2051-2019 [Article (PDF file)]
• Newman, L., P. Heil, R. Trebilco, K. Katsumata, A. J. Constable, E. van Wijk, K. Assmann, J. Beja, P. Bricher, R. Coleman, D. Costa, S. Diggs, R. Farneti, S. Fawcett, S. T. Gille, K. R. Hendry, S. F. Henley, E. Hofmann, T. Maksym, M. Mazloff, A..J. S. Meijers, M. P. Meredith, S. Moreau, B. Ozsoy, R. Robertson, I. R. Schloss, O. Schofield, J. Shi, E. L Sikes, I. J. Smith, S. Swart, A. Wahlin, G. Williams, M. J.M. Williams, L. Herraiz-Borreguero, S. Kern, J. Lieser, R. Massom, J. Melbourne-Thomas, P. Miloslavich, & G. Spreen (2019). Delivering sustained, coordinated and integrated observations of the Southern Ocean for global impact. Front. Mar. Sci., 6, 433. doi:10.3389/fmars.2019.00433 [Article (PDF file)]
• Patilea, C., G. Heygster, M. Huntemann, & G. Spreen (2019). Combined SMAP/SMOS Thin Sea Ice Thickness Retrieval. The Cryosphere, 13, 675–691. doi:10.5194/tc-13-675-2019 [Article (PDF file)]
• Salameh, E., F. Frappart, P. Baptista, G. Heygster, B. Lubac, D. Raucoules, L.P.  Almeida, E. Bergsma, S. Capo, M. De Michele, D. Idier, Z. Li, V. Marieu, A. Poupardin, P. A. Silva, I. Turki, & B.Laignel (2019). Monitoring beach topography and nearshore bathymetry using spaceborne remote sensing: a review. Remote Sens., 11(19), 2212. doi:10.3390/rs11192212
• Wendisch, M., A. Macke, A. Ehrlich, C. Lüpkes, M. Mech, D. Chechin, K. Dethloff, C. Barientos, H. Bozem, M. Brückner, H.-C. Clemen, S. Crewell, T. Donth, R. Dupuy, K. Ebell, U. Egerer, R. Engelmann, C. Engler, O. Eppers, M. Gehrmann, X. Gong, M. Gottschalk, C. Gourbeyre, H. Griesche, J. Hartmann, M. Hartmann, B. Heinold, A. Herber, H. Herrmann, G. Heygster, P. Hoor, S. Jafariserajehlou, E. Jäkel, E. Järvinen, O. Jourdan, U. Kästner, S. Kecorius, E. M. Knudsen, F. Köllner, J. Kretzschmar, L. Lelli, D. Leroy, M. Maturilli, L. Mei, S. Mertes, G. Mioche, R. Neuber, M. Nicolaus, T. Nomokonova, J. Notholt, M. Palm, M. van Pinxteren, J. Quaas, P. Richter, E. Ruiz-Donoso, M. Schäfer, K. Schmieder, M. Schnaiter, J. Schneider, A. Schwarzenböck, P. Seifert, M. D. Shupe, H. Siebert, G. Spreen, J. Stapf, F. Stratmann, T. Vogl, A. Welti, H. Wex, A. Wiedensohler, M. Zanatta, & S. Zeppenfeld (2019). The Arctic Cloud Puzzle: Using ACLOUD/PASCAL Multi-Platform Observations to Unravel the Role of Clouds and Aerosol Particles in Arctic Amplification, Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc., 100(5), 841–871. doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-18-0072.1 [Article (PDF file)]

• Ardhuin, F., G. Boutin, J. Stopa, F. Girard-Ardhuin, C. Melsheimer, J. Thomson, A. Kohout, M. Doble, & P. Wadhams (2018). Wave Attenuation Through and Arctic Marginal Ice Zone on October 12, 2015: 2. Numerical Modeling of Waves and Associated Ice Break-Up. J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, 123(8), 5652–5668. doi:10.1002/2018JC013784
• Grosfeld, K., R. Treffeisen, J. Asseng, & G. Heygster (2018). The Web Portal 'meereisportal.de' in Context of ESKP. In G. Krause (ed.): Building Bridges at the Science-Stakeholder Interface. In series SpringerBriefs in Earth System Science, 69–72. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-75919-7
• Itkin P., G. Spreen, S. M. Hvidegaard, H. Skourup, J. Wilkinson, S. Gerland, & M. A. Granskog (2018). Contribution of deformation to sea-ice mass balance: a case study from an N-ICE2015 storm. Geophys. Res. Lett., 45(2), 789–796. doi:10.1002/2017GL076056 [Article (PDF file)]
• Johansson, A. M., C. Brekke, G. Spreen, & J. A. King (2018). X-, C-, and L-band SAR signatures of newly formed sea ice in Arctic leads during winter and spring. Rem. Sens. Env., 204, 162–180. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2017.10.032 [Article (PDF file)]
• Kilic, L., C. Prigent, F. Aires, J.Boutin, G. Heygster, R. T. Tonboe, H. Roquet, C. Jimenez, & C. Donlon (2018). Expected performances of the Copernicus Imaging Microwave Radiometer (CIMR) for an all-weather and high spatial resolution estimation of ocean and sea ice parameters. J. Geophys. Res. Oceans. 123(10), 7564-7580. doi:10.1029/2018JC014408 [Article (PDF file)]
• King, J., H. Skourup, S. M. Hvidegaard, A. Rösel, S. Gerland, G. Spreen, C. Polashenski, V. Helm, & G. E. Liston (2018). Comparison of freeboard retrieval and ice thickness calculation from ALS, ASIRAS, and CryoSat-2 in the Norwegian Arctic, to field measurements made during the N-ICE2015 expedition. J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, 123(2), 1123–1141. doi:10.1002/2017JC013233 [Article (PDF file)]
• Knudsen, M., B. Heinold, S. E. Dahlke, H. Bozem, S. Crewell, I. V. Gorodetskaya, G. Heygster, D. Kunkel, M. Maturilli, M. Mech, C. Viceto, A. Rinke, H. Schmithüsen, A. Ehrlich, A. Macke, C. Lüpkes, & M. Wendisch (2018).  Meteorological conditions during the ACLOUD/PASCAL field campaign near Svalbard in early summer 2017. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 18, 17995–18022. doi:10.5194/acp-18-17995-2018
• Korosov, A. A., P. Rampal, L. T. Pedersen, R. Saldo, Y. Ye, G. Heygster, T. Lavergne, S. Aaboe, & F. Girard-Ardhuin (2018). A new tracking algorithm for sea ice age distribution estimation. The Cryosphere, 12, 2073–2085. doi:10.5194/tc-12-2073-2018 [Article (PDF file)]
• Lam, H. M., G. Spreen, G. Heygster, C. Melsheimer, & N. W. Young (2018). Erroneous sea ice concentration retrieval in the East Antarctic. Ann. Glaciol., 59(76pt2), 201–212. doi:10.1017/aog.2018.1 [Article (PDF file)]
• Lu, J., G. Heygster, & G. Spreen (2018). Atmospheric Correction of Sea Ice Concentration Retrieval for 89 GHz AMSR-E Observations. IEEE J-STARS., 11(5), 1442–1457. doi:10.1109/JSTARS.2018.2805193
• Lu, P., M. Leppäranta, B. Cheng, Z. Li, L. Istomina, & G. Heygster (2018). The color of melt ponds on Arctic sea ice. The Cryosphere, 12, 1331–1345. doi:10.5194/tc-12-1331-2018 [Article (PDF file)]
• Malinka, A., E. Zege, L. Istomina, G. Heygster, G. Spreen, D. Perovich, & C. Polashenski (2018). Reflective properties of melt ponds on sea ice. The Cryosphere, 12, 1921–1937. doi:10.5194/tc-12-1921-2018 [Article (PDF file)]
• Murashkin, D., G. Spreen, M. Huntemann, & W. Dierking (2018). Method for detection of leads from Sentinel-1 SAR images. Ann. Glaciol., 59(76pt2), 124–136. doi:10.1017/aog.2018.6 [Article (PDF file)]
• Rostosky, P., G. Spreen, S. L. Farrell, T. Frost, G. Heygster, & C. Melsheimer (2018). Snow depth retrieval on Arctic sea ice from passive microwave radiometers—Improvements and extensions to multiyear ice using lower frequencies. J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, 123(10), 7120–7138. doi:10.1029/2018JC014028 [Article (PDF file)]
• Scarlat, R. C., C. Melsheimer, & G. Heygster (2018). Retrieval of Total Water Vapour in the Arctic Using Microwave Humidity Sounders. Atmos. Meas. Tech., 11, 2067–2084. doi:0.5194/amt-11-2067-2018 [Article (PDF file)]

• Assmy, P., M. Fernandez-Mendez, P. Duarte, A. Meyer, A. Randelhoff, C. Mundy, L. Olsen, H. Kauko, A. Bailey, M. Chierici, L. Cohen, A. Doulgeris, J. Ehn, A. Fransson, S. Gerland, H. Hop, S. Hudson, N. Hughes, P. Itkin, G. Johnsen, J. King, B. Koch, Z. Koenig, S. Kwasniewski, S. Laney, M. Nicolaus, A. Pavlov, C. Polashenski, C. Provost, A. Rösel, M. Sandbu, G. Spreen, L. Smedsrud, A. Sundfjord, T. Taskjelle, A. Tatarek, J. Wiktor, P. Wagner, A. Wold, H. Steen, & M. Granskog (2017). Leads in Arctic pack ice enable early phytoplankton blooms below snow-covered sea ice. Scientific Reports, 7, 40850. doi:10.1038/srep40850 [Article (PDF-File)]
• Barbaro, E., A. Spolaor, O. Karroca, K.-T. Park, T. Martma, E. Isaksson, J. Kohler, J. C. Gallet, M. P. Bjorkman, D. Cappelletti, G. Spreen, R. Zangrando, C. Barbante, & A. Gambaro (2017). Free amino acids in the Arctic snow and ice core samples: potential markers for paleoclimatic studies. Science of the Total Environment, 607-608, 454–462. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.07.041
• Carlsen, T., G. Birnbaum, A. Ehrlich, J. Freitag, G. Heygster, L. Istomina, S. Kipfstuhl, A. Orsi, M. Schäfer, & M. Wendisch (2017). Comparison of different methods to retrieve effective snow grain size in central Antarctica. The Cryosphere, 11, 2727–2741. doi:10.5194/tc-11-2727-2017
• Fransson, A., M. Chierici, I. Skjelvan, A. Olsen, P. Assmy, A. K. Peterson, G. Spreen, & B. Ward (2017). Effects of sea-ice and biogeochemical processes and storms on under-ice water fCO₂ during the winter-spring transition in the high Arctic Ocean: implications for sea-air CO₂ fluxes. J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, 122(7), 5566–5587. doi:10.1002/2016JC012478 [Article (PDF-File)]
• Hui, F., X. Cheng, P. Gong, J. Kang, Y. Liu, F. Wang, Z. Li, Y. Ye, & Z. Guo (2017). AntarcticaLC2000: The new Antarctic land cover database for the year 2000. Science China Earth Sciences, 60(4), 686–696. doi:10.1007/s11430-016-0029-2
• Itkin, P., G. Spreen, B. Cheng, M. Doble, F. Girard-Ardhuin, J. Haapala, N. Hughes, L. Kaleschke, M. Nicolaus, & J. Wilkinson (2017). Thin ice and storms: sea ice deformation from buoy arrays deployed during N-ICE2015. J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, 122(6), 4661–4674. doi:10.1002/2016JC012403 [Article (PDF-File)]
• Johansson, A. M., J. A. King, A. P. Doulgeris, S. Gerland, S. Singha, G. Spreen, & T. Busche (2017). Combined observations of Arctic sea ice with near-coincident colocated X-band, C-band, and L-band SAR satellite remote sensing and helicopter-borne measurements. J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, 122(1), 669–691. doi:10.1002/2016JC012273 [Article (PDF-File)]
• King, J., G. Spreen, S. Gerland, C. Haas, S. Hendricks, L. Kaleschke, & C. Wang (2017). Sea-Ice Thickness from field measurements in the north-western Barents Sea. J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, 122(2), 1497–1512. doi:10.1002/2016JC012199 [Article (PDF-File)]
• Pedersen, L. T., R. Tonboe, S. Kern, T. Lavergne, N. Ivanova, & G. Heygster (2017). Sea Ice Observations. In T. Carrieres, M. Buehner, J.-F. Lemieux and L. T. Pedersen (eds.), Sea Ice Analysis and Forecasting - Towards an Increased Reliance on Automated Prediction Systems. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (UK), 51-108. ISBN: 9781108417426
• Scarlat, R. C., G. Heygster, & L. T. Pedersen (2017). Experiences With an Optimal Estimation Algorithm for Surface and Atmospheric Parameter Retrieval From Passive Microwave Data in the Arctic. IEEE J-STARS, 10, 3934–3947. doi:10.1109/jstars.2017.2739858
• Spreen, G., R. Kwok, D. Menemenlis, & A. T. Nguyen (2017). Sea ice deformation in a coupled ocean-sea ice model and in satellite remote sensing data. The Cryosphere, 11, 1553–1573. doi:10.5194/tc-11-1553-2017 [Article (PDF-File)]
• Spreen, G., & S. Kern (2017). Chapter 9 Methods of satellite remote sensing of sea ice. In D. N. Thomas (Ed.), Sea Ice (3rd Edition, pp. 239–260). Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN: 978-1-118-77838-8, doi:10.1002/9781118778371
• Suresh, G., C. Melsheimer, I. R. MacDonald, J. Notholt, & G. Bohrmann (2017). Application of the automatic seep location estimator (ASLE) with the use of contextual information for estimating offshore oil seeps. Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment, 5, 16–26. doi:10.1016/j.rsase.2016.11.005
• Vallelonga, P., N. Maffezzoli, A. D. Moy, M. A. J. Curran, T. R. Vance, R. Edwards, G. Hughes, E. Barker, G. Spreen, A. Saiz-Lopez, J. P. Corella, C. A. Cuevas, & A. Spolaor (2017). Sea-ice-related halogen enrichment at Law Dome, coastal East Antarctica. Clim. Past, 13, 171–184. doi:10.5194/cp-13-171-2017 [Article (PDF-File)]

• Dorschel, B., J. Gutt, O. Huhn, A. Bracher, M. Huntemann, W. Huneke, C. Gebhardt, M. Schröder,  & H. Herr (2016). Environmental information for a marine ecosystem research approach for the northern Antarctic Peninsula (RV Polarstern expedition PS81, ANT-XXIX/3). Polar Biology, 39(5), 765–787. doi:10.1007/s00300-015-1861-2
• Gilg, O., L. Istomina, G. Heygster, H. Strøm, M.V. Gavrilo, M.L. Mallory, G. Gilchrist, A. Aebischer, B. Sabard, M. Huntemann, A. Mosbech, & G. Yannic (2016). Living on the edge of a shrinking habitat: the ivory gull, Pagophila eburnea, an endangered sea-ice specialist. Biology Letters, 12(11). doi:10.1098/rsbl.2016.0277
• Istomina, L., C. Melsheimer, M. Huntemann, M. Nicolaus, & G. Heygster (2016). Retrieval of sea ice thickness during melt season from in situ, airborne and satellite imagery. 2016 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), Beijing, pp. 7678-7681. doi:10.1109/IGARSS.2016.7731002
• Kaleschke, L., X. Tian-Kunze, N. Maaß, A. Beitsch, A. Wernecke, M. Miernecki, G. Müller, B.H. Fock, A.M. Gierisch, K.H. Schlünzen, T. Pohlmann, M. Dobrynin, S. Hendricks, J. Asseng, R. Gerdes, P. Jochmann, N. Reimer, J. Holfort, C. Melsheimer, G. Heygster, G. Spreen, S. Gerland, J. King, N. Skou, S.S. Søbjærg, C. Haas, F. Richter, & T. Casal (2016). SMOS sea ice product: Operational application and validation in the Barents Sea marginal ice zone. Remote Sens. Environ., 180, 264–273. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2016.03.009
• Krumpen, T., R. Gerdes, C. Haas, S. Hendricks, A. Herber, V. Selyuzhenok, L. Smedsrud, & G. Spreen (2016). Recent summer sea ice thickness surveys in the Fram Strait and associated ice volume fluxes. The Cryosphere, 10(2), 523–534. doi:10.5194/tc-10-523-2016 [Article (PDF-File)]
• Malinka, A.V., E.P. Zege, I.L. Katsev, A.S. Prikhach, & L. Istomina (2016). Accounting for Atmospheric Effects in the Interpretation of Satellite and Ground-Based Optical Measurements. J Appl Spectrosc., 83, 741–749. doi:10.1007/s10812-016-0357-3
• Malinka, A., E. Zege, G. Heygster, & L. Istomina (2016). Reflective properties of white and snow-covered sea ice. The Cryosphere, 10(6), 2541–2557. doi:10.5194/tc-10-2541-2016 [Article (PDF-File)]
• Melsheimer, C., T. Frost, & G. Heygster (2016). Detectability of polar mesocyclones and polar lows using data from space-borne microwave humidity sounders. IEEE J-STARS, 9(1), 326–335. doi:10.1109/JSTARS.2015.2499083
• Ressel, R., S. Singha, S. Lehner, A. Rösel, & G. Spreen (2016). Investigation into different polarimetric features for sea ice classification using X-band Synthetic Aperture Radar. IEEE J-STARS, 9(7), 3131–3143. doi:10.1109/JSTARS.2016.2539501 [Article (PDF-File)]
• Ye, Y., M. Shokr, G. Heygster, & G. Spreen (2016). Improving multiyear ice concentration estimates with ice drift. Remote Sens., 8(5), 397. doi:10.3390/rs8050397 [Article (PDF-File)]
• Ye, Y., G. Heygster, & M. Shokr (2016). Improving multiyear ice concentration estimates with air temperatures. IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., 54(5), 2602–2614. doi:10.1109/TGRS.2015.2503884
• Zhu, T., F. Li, G. Heygster, & S. Zhang (2016). Antarctic sea-ice classification based on conditional random fields from RADARSAT-2 dual-polarization satellite images. IEEE J-STARS, 9(6), 2451–2467. doi:10.1109/JSTARS.2016.2551318

• Huntemann, M., & G. Heygster (2015). A new method to filter out radio frequency interference (RFI) from SMOS Level 1C data for sea ice applications. In G. Lohmann, H. Megers, V. Unnithan, D. Wolf-Gladrow and J. Notholt (eds.): Towards an Interdisciplinary Approach in Earth System Science. Advances of a Helmholtz Graduate Research School. Springer Earth System Science, Heidelberg, pp. 91-98.
• Istomina, L., G. Heygster, M. Huntemann, H. Marks, C. Melsheimer, E. Zege, A. Malinka, A. Prikhach, & I. Katsev (2015). Melt pond fraction and spectral sea ice albedo retrieval from MERIS data – Part 2: Case studies and trends of sea ice albedo and melt ponds in the Arctic for years 2002–2011. The Cryosphere, 9(4), 1567–1578. doi:10.5194/tc-9-1567-2015 [Article (PDF-File)]
• Istomina, L., G. Heygster, M. Huntemann, P. Schwarz, G. Birnbaum, R. Scharien, C. Polashenski, D. Perovich, E. Zege, A. Malinka, A. Prikhach, & I. Katsev (2015). Melt pond fraction and spectral sea ice albedo retrieval from MERIS data – 1: Validation against in situ, aerial, and ship cruise data. The Cryosphere, 9, 1551–1566. doi:10.5194/tc-9-1551-2015 [Article (PDF-File)]
• Ivanova, N., L.T. Pedersen, R.T. Tonboe, S. Kern, G. Heygster, T. Lavergne, A. Sörensen, R. Saldo, G. Dybkjær, L. Brucker, & M. Shokr (2015). Inter-comparison and evaluation of sea ice algorithms: towards further identification of challenges and optimal approach using passive microwave observations. The Cryosphere, 9, 1797–1817. doi:10.5194/tc-9-1797-2015 [Article (PDF-File)]
• Kyba, C.C.M., K.P. Tong, J. Bennie, I. Birriel, J.J. Birriel, A. Cool, A. Danielsen, T.W. Davies, P.N. den Outer, W. Edwards, R. Ehlert, F. Falchi, J. Fischer, A. Giacomelli, F. Giubbilini, M. Haaima, C. Hesse, G. Heygster, F. Hölker, R. Inger, L.J. Jensen, H.U. Kuechly, J. Kuehn, P. Langill, D.E. Lolkema, M. Nagy, M. Nievas, N. Ochi, E. Popow, T. Posch, J. Puschnig, T. Ruhtz, W. Schmidt, R. Schwarz, A. Schwope, H. Spoelstra, A. Tekatch, M. Trueblood, C.E. Walker, M. Weber, D.L. Welch, J. Zamorano, & K.J. Gaston (2015). Worldwide variations in artificial skyglow. Scientific Reports, 5:8409. doi:10.1038/srep08409
• Suresh, G., C. Melsheimer, J.-H. Körber, & G. Bohrmann (2015) Automatic Estimation of oil seep locations in Synthetic Aperture Radar images. IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens. doi:10.1109/TGRS.2015.2393375
• Tomasi, C., A.A. Kokhanovsky, A. Lupi, C. Ritter, A. Smirnov, N.T. O’Neill, R.S. Stone, B.N. Holben, S. Nyeki, C. Wehrli, A. Stohl, M. Mazzola, C. Lanconelli, V. Vitale, K. Stebel, V. Aaltonen, G. de Leeuw, E. Rodriguez, A.B. Herber, V.F. Radionov, T. Zielinski, T. Petelski, S.M. Sakerin, D.M. Kabanov, Y. Xue, L. Mei, L. Istomina, R. Wagener, B. McArthur, P.S. Sobolewski, R. Kivi, Y. Courcoux, P. Larouche, S. Broccardo, & S.J. Piketh (2015). Aerosol remote sensing in polar regions. Earth-Science Reviews, 140, 108–157. doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2014.11.001
• Ye, Y., & G. Heygster (2015). Arctic multiyear ice concentration retrieval from SSM/I data using the NASA Team algorithm with dynamic tie points. In G. Lohmann, H. Megers, V. Unnithan, D. Wolf-Gladrow and J. Notholt (eds.): Towards an Interdisciplinary Approach in Earth System Science. Advances of a Helmholtz Graduate Research School. Springer Earth System Science, Heidelberg, pp. 99–108.
• Zege, E. P., A.V. Malinka, I.L. Katsev, A.S. Prikhach, G. Heygster, L. Istomina, G. Birnbaum, and P. Schwarz (2015). Algorithm to retrieve the melt pond fraction and the spectral albedo of Arctic summer ice from satellite data. Remote Sens. Environ., 163, 153–164. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2015.03.012

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