Antarctic Ice Charts 1975-1976.

• Other Authors: FLEET WEATHER FACILITY SUITLAND MD
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1976
• Subjects: Snow; Ice and Permafrost; *SEA ICE; *ANTARCTIC REGIONS; *LAND ICE; *PACK ICE; ICE FORMATION; SEASONAL VARIATIONS; CHARTS; OPTICAL SCANNING; AREA COVERAGE; RADIOMETRY; ICEBERGS; SCIENTIFIC SATELLITES; ICE OPENINGS; Ice shelves; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Ice; ice pack; Ice Shelves; Iceberg*; permafrost; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA043354; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA043354

The advent of high resolution satellite imagery combined with the ground truth of conventional observations has only recently provided description of the polar ice fields on a semi-synoptic scale. Since 1970, the Fleet Weather Facility has prepared operational analyses of sea ice conditions in the Antarctic. The charts were constructed by Navy ice analysts under operational time constraints from satellite imagery and conventional data. Reanalysis with late data was not normally attempted; rather the current analysis was prepared incorporating this to the extent possible. The analysis was compared with available climatology in an attempt to eliminate gross errors.