Field work on Atka Bay land-fast sea ice in 2012/13

• Main Authors: Hoppmann, Mario, Paul, Stephan, Hunkeler, Priska, Baltes, Uwe, Kühnel, Meike, Schmidt, Thomas, Nicolaus, Marcel, Heinemann, Günther, Willmes, Sascha
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Antarc*; Antarctic; Antarctica; Ice Shelves; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/34548/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/34548/1/SIMBIS_Neumayer_2012_EPIC.pdf; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.42767; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.42767.d001

Since 2010, we perform a regular monitoring of sea-ice properties on the land-fast ice of Atka Bay, Antarctica, as part of the international Antarctic Fast Ice Network (AFIN). Our activities mainly comprise regular drillings and EM-based sea-ice thickness transects every few weeks, as well as the deployment of several autonomous measuring stations. These regular AFIN measurements were complemented in 2012/13 by a two month field campaign (19 November 2012 to 9 January 2013) of four scientists and technicians in the framework of the project “Sea-Ice Mass Balance influenced by Ice Shelves” (SIMBIS). During the SIMBIS field campaign, we intensified our monitoring by using a variety of methods to investigate the physical properties of the sea ice, its snow cover and the processes affecting their mass- and energy balances at Atka Bay. This report summarizes our activities of AFIN and SIMBIS in 2012/13.