Modelling the thickness of landfast sea ice in Prydz Bay, East Antarctica

• Published in: Antarctic Science
• Main Authors: Yang, Yu, Zhijun, Li, Leppäranta, Matti, Cheng, Bin, Shi, Liqiong, Lei, Ruibo
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2015
• Subjects: Antarc*; Antarctic; Antarctic Science; Antarctica; East Antarctica; Prydz Bay; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954102015000449; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0954102015000449

Abstract Landfast sea ice forms and remains fixed along the coast for most of its life time. In Prydz Bay, landfast ice is seasonal due to melting, mechanical breakage and drift of ice in summer. Its annual cycle of thickness and temperature was examined using a one-dimensional thermodynamic model....