TIFAX 2017 Campaign Report: Sea ice thickness measurements with Polar 6 from Station Nord and Alert

• Main Authors: Krumpen, Thomas, Sellmann, Manuel, Rohde, Jan
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Ellesmere Island; Fram Strait; Greenland; Sea ice; Svalbard
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/45409/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/45409/1/CampaignReport_TIFAX2017.pdf; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.51536; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.51536.d001

Arctic sea ice extent and thickness have undergone dramatic changes in the past decades: Summer sea ice extent has declined at an annual rate of approximately 12.7 % per decade over the satellite record (1978 – present, Meier et al., 2014) and its mean thickness has decreased by 0.58 m +/- 0.07 m pe...