Landfast sea ice extent time-series, from March 2000 to March 2014

Landfast sea ice (also known as fast ice) is sea ice which is mechanically fastened against the coast and/or grounded icebergs. Its extent is highly variable on a range of time-scales, but it tends to recur in certain locations based upon the location of grounded icebergs. In Antarctica, it tends to...

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Other Authors: FRASER, ALEXANDER D. (hasPrincipalInvestigator), FRASER, ALEXANDER D. (processor), OHSHIMA, KAY I. (hasPrincipalInvestigator), NIHASHI, SOHEY (hasPrincipalInvestigator), TAMURA, TAKESHI (hasPrincipalInvestigator), NAKATA, KAZUKI (hasPrincipalInvestigator), WILLIAMS, GUY DARVALL (hasPrincipalInvestigator), MASSOM, ROB I. (hasPrincipalInvestigator), CARPENTIER, SCOTT (hasPrincipalInvestigator), WILLMES, SASCHA (hasPrincipalInvestigator), KAPPES, PETER J. (hasPrincipalInvestigator), Australian Antarctic Data Centre (publisher)
Format: Dataset
Language:unknown
Published: Australian Antarctic Data Centre
Subjects:
climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
imageryBaseMapsEarthCover
SEA ICE
EARTH SCIENCE
CRYOSPHERE
ICE EXTENT
ICE TYPES
SEA ICE CONCENTRATION
Fast Ice
MODIS &gt
Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
Terra &gt
Earth Observing System
TERRA (AM-1)
AQUA &gt
AQUA
GEOGRAPHIC REGION &gt
POLAR
CONTINENT &gt
ANTARCTICA
OCEAN &gt
SOUTHERN OCEAN
Cape Darnley
Darnley
East Antarctica
Mawson Coast
Southern Ocean
Antarc*
Antarctica
Sea ice
Online Access:https://researchdata.ands.org.au/landfast-sea-ice-march-2014/945706
https://doi.org/10.4225/15/58eedb8f99dbc
https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/AAS_4116_Fraser_fastice_mawson_capedarnley
http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-617536
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Summary:Landfast sea ice (also known as fast ice) is sea ice which is mechanically fastened against the coast and/or grounded icebergs. Its extent is highly variable on a range of time-scales, but it tends to recur in certain locations based upon the location of grounded icebergs. In Antarctica, it tends to form between the coast and the ~400 m isobath (which approximately defines the depth in which icebergs can ground). This dataset (in NetCDF format) contains a time series of 336 consecutive 15-day 'composite' images of landfast sea ice extent along the Mawson Coast to Cape Darnley, East Antarctica. The data period is from March 2000 (when Terra MODIS was commissioned) to March 2014, i.e., a span of 14 years. Fast ice data were retrieved from MODIS satellite imagery, based on a semi-automated fast ice edge retrieval algorithm. Also included in the NetCDF file are projection parameters, latitude/longitude arrays and timestamps.

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