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Daily values and monthly means of four statistical scores (hit rate, false alarm ratio, false alarm rate, and Hanssen-Kuiper Skill Score) over the Arctic Ocean show distinct annual cycles. IMS ice edges often extend further south compared to those from AMSR2, with up to 100 km differences over the Beaufort, Chukchi, and East Siberian Seas in August and September.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs12101582","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,5,18]],"date-time":"2020-05-18T02:43:42Z","timestamp":1589769822000},"page":"1582","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":4,"title":["Assessment of AMSR2 Ice Extent and Ice Edge in the Arctic Using IMS"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"12","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4648-2722","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yinghui","family":"Liu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Center for Satellite Applications and Research, NOAA\/NESDIS, 1225 West Dayton St., Madison, WI 53706, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Sean","family":"Helfrich","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Center for Satellite Applications and Research, NOAA\/NESDIS, 5830 University Research Ct, College Park, MD 20740, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2857-0550","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Walter N.","family":"Meier","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Snow and Ice Data Center, CIRES, 449 UCB, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Richard","family":"Dworak","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1225 West Dayton St., Madison, WI 53706, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,5,16]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"32141","DOI":"10.1029\/1998JD200032","article-title":"Discriminating clear sky from clouds with modis","volume":"103","author":"Ackerman","year":"1998","journal-title":"J. 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