Fast Ice Prediction System (FIPS) for land-fast sea ice at Prydz Bay, East Antarctica: an operational service for CHINARE

• Published in: Annals of Glaciology
• Main Authors: Jiechen Zhao, Bin Cheng, Timo Vihma, Petra Heil, Fengming Hui, Qi Shu, Lin Zhang, Qinghua Yang
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press 2020
• Subjects: Antarctica; land-fast sea ice; operational service; Prydz Bay; snow and ice thickness; thermodynamic modeling; Meteorology. Climatology; QC851-999; Antarctic; The Antarctic; East Antarctica; Zhongshan; Zhongshan Station; Annals of Glaciology; Antarc*; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1017/aog.2020.46; https://doaj.org/article/4a1bb4db9d854bc8b3083634aaa86def

A Fast Ice Prediction System (FIPS) was constructed and is the first regional land-fast sea-ice forecasting system for the Antarctic. FIPS had two components: (1) near-real-time information on the ice-covered area from MODIS and SAR imagery that revealed, tidal cracks, ridged and rafted ice regions;...