Landfast sea-ice and platelet-layer thickness and conductivity of Atka Bay, Antarctica, December 2012 ...

• Main Authors: Hunkeler, Priska A, Hoppmann, Mario, Hendricks, Stefan, Kalscheuer, Thomas, Gerdes, Rüdiger
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2015
• Subjects: Sea Ice Physics @ AWI AWI_SeaIce; Antarc*; Antarctic; Antarctica; Ice Shelves; Sea ice; Weddell Sea
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.845535; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.845535

Ice shelves strongly impact coastal Antarctic sea-ice and the associated ecosystem through the formation of a sub-sea-ice platelet layer. Although progress has been made in determining and understanding its spatio-temporal variability based on point measurements, an investigation of this phenomenon...