Electromagnetic-inductive measurements for the undeformed and deformed sea-ice and snow

• Main Authors: Kazutaka Tateyama, Shotaro Uto, Kunio Shirasawa, Hiroyuki Enomoto
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2004
• Subjects: KEY WORDS; Sea-ice; thickness; electromagnetic-inductive measurement; Antarctic; Antarc*; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.534.7668

Indirect ice and snow thickness measurements were carried out for the winter and spring Antarctic sea ice by using the electromagnetic-inductive (EMI) device on the East Antarctic pack ice area. This study investigated the effect of saline slush snow layer over the sea ice and seawater-filled gap to the snow and sea ice thickness measured by EMI. A result shows underestimations of EMI thickness, which might be caused by high conductive seawater-filled gaps between ice floes, appeared on thicker ice over 3.5 m. This study improved the validity of