Anomalous extensive landfast sea ice in the vicinity of Inexpressible Island, Antarctica

• Main Authors: Mengxi, Zhai, Tiancheng, Zhao, Fengming, Hui, Xiao, Cheng, Aobo, Liu, Jiawei, Yuan, Yining, Yu, Yifan, Ding
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Polar Research Institute of China - PRIC 2019
• Subjects: Cryosphere; Oceans; Terrestrial; Antarctic; Inexpressible Island; Advances in Polar Science; Antarc*; Antarctica; Polar Science; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://library.arcticportal.org/2708/; http://library.arcticportal.org/2708/1/A1904008.pdf

On 10 December 2017, a Chinese research vessel R/V Xuelong encountered an extensive area of landfast ice offshore Inexpressible Island (Antarctica) near the location where the fifth Chinese Antarctic research station is to be built. Using multi-source satellite images and weather data, we analyzed t...