Eighteen-year record of circum-Antarctic landfast-sea-ice distribution allows detailed baseline characterisation and reveals trends and variability

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: Fraser, Alexander D., Massom, Robert A., Handcock, Mark S., Reid, Phillip, Ohshima, Kay I., Raphael, Marilyn N., Cartwright, Jessica, Klekociuk, Andrew R., Wang, Zhaohui, Porter-Smith, Richard
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Antarctic; Bellingshausen Sea; East Antarctica; Oates Land; Ross Sea; The Antarctic; West Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-5061-2021; https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/15/5061/2021/

Landfast sea ice (fast ice) is an important though poorly understood component of the cryosphere on the Antarctic continental shelf, where it plays a key role in atmosphere–ocean–ice-sheet interaction and coupled ecological and biogeochemical processes. Here, we present a first in-depth baseline ana...