Freeboard height and snow depth observed by floating GPS on land-fast sea ice in Nella Fjord, Antarctica

• Published in: Annals of Glaciology
• Main Authors: Zhang, Qingchuan, Li, Fei, Lei, Jintao, Zhang, Shengkai, Ding, Zhuoming, Chen, Wu, Li, Wenhao
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2020
• Subjects: Zhongshan; Zhongshan Station; Nella Fjord; Annals of Glaciology; Antarc*; Antarctica; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/aog.2020.41; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0260305520000415

Abstract Although altimeters have been widely used to monitor the spatiotemporal variation of sea-ice thickness, they are unable to separate sea-ice freeboard from snow depth. We use a floating GPS deployed on sea ice to derive the freeboard and snow depth near China's Zhongshan Station. Our re...