Field measurements on Atka Bay landfast sea ice in 2012 ...

• Main Authors: Hoppmann, Mario, Nicolaus, Marcel, Paul, Stephan, Hunkeler, Priska A, Heinemann, Günther, Willmes, Sascha, Timmermann, Ralph, Boebel, Olaf, Schmidt, Thomas, Kühnel, Meike, König-Langlo, Gert, Gerdes, Rüdiger
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2014
• Subjects: Sea Ice Physics @ AWI AWI_SeaIce; Atka; Ekström Ice Shelf; Weddell; Weddell Sea; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.824434; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.824434

Basal melt of ice shelves may lead to an accumulation of disc-shaped ice platelets underneath nearby sea ice, to form a sub-ice platelet layer. Here we present the seasonal cycle of sea ice attached to the Ekström Ice Shelf, Antarctica, and the underlying platelet layer in 2012. Ice platelets emerge...