Eighteen-year record of circum-Antarctic landfast-sea-ice distribution allows detailed baseline characterisation and reveals trends and variability

<p>Landfast sea ice (fast ice) is an important though poorly understood component of the cryosphere on the Antarctic continental shelf, where it plays a key role in atmosphere–ocean–ice-sheet interaction and coupled ecological and biogeochemical processes. Here, we present a first in-depth bas...

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Main Authors: A. D. Fraser, R. A. Massom, M. S. Handcock, P. Reid, K. I. Ohshima, M. N. Raphael, J. Cartwright, A. R. Klekociuk, Z. Wang, R. Porter-Smith
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2021-11-01
Series:The Cryosphere
Online Access:https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/15/5061/2021/tc-15-5061-2021.pdf