The Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning / McGill University
$210,600.00 CAD
≈ 3 Canadians' average pay for a year
- Department
- Canadian Space Agency
- Recipient country
- Canada
- Fiscal year
- 2023-2024
- Agreement period
- March 24, 2024 – March 31, 2027
- Reference
- csa-asc:003-2023-2024-Q4-00058
Published purpose
When internal loads from surface winds and ocean current reach critical threshold in shear, compression or tension, sea ice floes slide relative to another along fracture planes where large amounts of heat, moiture and salt are exchanged between the ocean and atmosphere. We propose to use the Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images from the Canadian RADARSAT Constellation Mission to create a new high-resolution (1 km) sea ice deformation dataset with full Arctic coverage and higher temporal resolution when compared with existing RADARSAT-1-derived products. This new data set will be used to develop a new granular-physics sea ice model.
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