Quantifying the Antarctic marginal ice zone with unsupervised statistical methods

• Main Authors: Day, N., Bennetts, L., O'Farrell, S., Alberello, A.
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: Antarctic; Pancake; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://gfzpublic.gfz-potsdam.de/pubman/item/item_5018347

This work presents a new method for categorising Antarctic sea ice regions to measure the width of the marginal ice zone (MIZ). The Antarctic MIZ is generally described as the area of sea ice affected by ocean surface waves and acts as an interface between the open Southern Ocean and the consolidate...