Comparative Analysis of Sea Ice Between the Antarctic and the Arctic
School of Information Science and Engineering, Henan University of Technology, Zhengzhou 450001, China
| Abstract: | Polar regions have a profound impact on global climate change, because polar regions are one of the world’s largest sources of cold. Sea ice is the main influencing factor in the polar regions, which has a great influence on the heat transfer, which in turn affects the global climate system. In the past two decades, Arctic sea ice has decreased year by year, while Antarctic sea ice has increased. The use of passive satellite remote sensing data for long-term observation and analysis of polar sea ice will provide an important theoretical basis for studying global climate change and an important data source for polar sea ice research. This study uses the data of the Antarctic and Arctic sea ice density data from 1998 to 2018 to compare and analyze the changes in time and space to find out the changes of the sea ice in the south and Arctic. Using the SSM / I data of the US National Defense Meteorological Satellite and the NASA TEAM algorithm, the sea ice data from 1998 to 2018 was compared and analyzed. The specific process is to use the NASA TEAM algorithm to invert the Arctic and Arctic sea ice, obtain multi-year ice, one-year ice, and overall sea ice density data, and then determine the sea ice area. Through comparative analysis, it is found that the area of Antarctic sea ice is significantly larger than that of the North Pole, and the change trend of the two is similar. The downward trend is greater than that of the South Pole; the total annual ice volume of the South Pole is greater than that of the North Pole, both of which have an upward trend, and the Arctic has a greater increase; the overall sea ice has fallen, and the multi-year ice has decreased while the annual ice has increased. Sea ice has a tendency to transform from multi-year ice to one-year ice; Antarctic multi-year ice is mainly distributed in the Weddell Sea, with stable areas accounting for 60% of the multi-year ice area; Antarctica is dominated by one-year ice, and one-year ice stable area accounts for one 80.1% of the total annual ice area; Arctic multi-year ice mainly exists in the central area of the Arctic Ocean. The Arctic multi-year ice stable area only accounts for 35.06%; the Arctic one-year ice is mainly distributed around the multi-year ice periphery, and the stable existence area accounts for the total annual ice area 48.5%. |
| Keywords: | Antarctic; Arctic; NASA TEAM Algorithms; Sea Ice; Spatiotemporal Change |
| DOI: | 10.57237/j.res.2023.02.001 |
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Received: 7 December 2022
Accepted: 8 March 2023
Published Online: 25 May 2023
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