A lead-width distribution for Antarctic sea ice: a case study for the Weddell Sea with high resolution Sentinel-2 images

• Main Authors: Muchow, Marek, Schmitt, Amelie U., Kaleschke, Lars
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Antarctic; Arctic; The Sentinel; Weddell; Weddell Sea; Antarc*; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2020-222; https://tc.copernicus.org/preprints/tc-2020-222/

We derive for the first time a statistical lead-width distribution for Antarctic sea ice using Weddell sea ice as a case study. Therefore, we transfer previous approaches for Arctic sea ice with a power law with a positive exponent ( p ( x width ) x width − a , a > 1) to Antarctic sea ice. We use...