Monitoring land-fast sea ice in the Weddell Sea – A contribution to the Antarctic Fast Ice Network

• Main Authors: Hoppmann, Mario, Nicolaus, Marcel, Hunkeler, Priska, Paul, Stephan, Heil, Petra
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: Antarc*; Antarctic; Antarctica; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves; IPY; Sea ice; Southern Ocean; Weddell Sea
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/35368/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/35368/1/AFIN_IGS_2014_final_small.pdf; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.43360; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.43360.d001

Continuous observations of sea-ice and its snow cover are crucial to understand key processes and predict changes in the polar regions. In the pack-ice zone of the Southern Ocean, gathering these data is most challenging due to logistical constraints. In contrast, immobile sea ice fastened to the co...