North-eastern Barents Sea
 This
ERS-1 SAR swath, obtained on 30 March 1992, covers part of the strait between
Novaya Zemlya and Franz Josef Land in the northeastern part of the Barents Sea
(see the location of the SAR images
) where sea ice is present throughout the year. The ice in this image is primarily
firstyear ice. There is no influence of ice edge eddies and surface waves from
open ocean as in the western Barents Sea. Therefore the ice cover is characterized
by consolidated ice broken up by shear zones and leads formed as a result of the
ice motion. Dark leads indicate that thin ice has formed, whereas bright leads
suggest that either open water or ice with high surface roughness is present.
In the southern part of the image landfast ice and shore leads off the coast of
Novaya Zemlya can be seen.
NERSC, Bergen, Norway
Keywords: ESA European
Space Agency - Agence spatiale europeenne,
observation de la terre, earth observation,
satellite remote sensing,
teledetection, geophysique, altimetrie, radar,
chimique atmospherique, geophysics, altimetry, radar,
atmospheric chemistry
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This
ERS-1 SAR swath, obtained on 30 March 1992, covers part of the strait between
Novaya Zemlya and Franz Josef Land in the northeastern part of the Barents Sea
(see the location of the SAR images
) where sea ice is present throughout the year. The ice in this image is primarily
firstyear ice. There is no influence of ice edge eddies and surface waves from
open ocean as in the western Barents Sea. Therefore the ice cover is characterized
by consolidated ice broken up by shear zones and leads formed as a result of the
ice motion. Dark leads indicate that thin ice has formed, whereas bright leads
suggest that either open water or ice with high surface roughness is present.
In the southern part of the image landfast ice and shore leads off the coast of
Novaya Zemlya can be seen.
