Satellite observed behavior of the Terra Nova Bay Polynya

• Main Authors: Dennis D. Kurtz, David, H. Bromwich
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1983
• Subjects: Reeves; Reeves Glacier; Ross Sea; Terra Nova Bay; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.669.3102; http://polarmet.osu.edu/PMG_publications/kurtz_bromwich_jgr_1983.pdf

Infrared satellite images indicate that a polynya, surrounded by a zone of loose pack ice, persisted in Terra Nova Bay, Antarctica through the winter of 1979; the feature may recur each year. The affected region (polynya nd loose pack) occupied roughly 25000 km 2 of the western Ross Sea. Throughout...