Long-term monitoring of landfast sea ice extent and thickness in Kongsfjorden, and related applications

• Main Authors: Gerland, Sebastian, Pavlova, Olga, Divine, Dimitry, Negrel, Jean, Dahlke, Sandro, Johansson, A Malin, Maturilli, Marion, Semmling, Maximilian
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Zenodo 2020
• Subjects: Kongsfjorden; Svalbard; sea ice; fast ice; time series; climate change; Arctic; Ny-Ålesund; Zeppelinfjellet; Climate change; Kongsfjord*; Norwegian Polar Institute; Ny Ålesund; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4707147; https://zenodo.org/record/4707147

This is chapter 6 of the State of Environmental Science in Svalbard (SESS) report 2019 (https://sios-svalbard.org/SESS_Issue2). Landfast sea ice (ice anchored to the shore) covers the inner parts of Kongsfjorden, Svalbard, in winter and spring, and is an important feature for the physical and biolog...