Assessing sea ice trafficability in a changing arctic

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: Dammann, Dyre Oliver, Eicken, Hajo, Mahoney, Andrew R., Meyer, Franz J., Betcher, Sarah
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Transport Systems and Logistics; Physical Geography; Geosciences; Multidisciplinary; Ice roads; Sea ice; Synthetic aperture radar; Sea ice use; Sea ice system services; Arctic; Northstar Island; Alaska
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.14430/arctic4701; https://research.chalmers.se/en/publication/502845

Arctic sea ice has undergone rapid changes during the last few decades, with negative implications for over-ice travel and on-ice operations, which benefit from services provided by the sea ice. A Parameter-based Trafficability Hierarchy (PATH) is presented here as a framework for developing quantit...