Size distribution and shape properties of relatively small sea-ice floes in the Antarctic marginal ice zone in late winter

• Published in: Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography
• Main Authors: Toyota, Takenobu, Haas, Christian, Tamura, Takeshi
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier
• Subjects: Sea ice; Floe size distribution; Ocean-ice-atmosphere system; Ice melting; Marginal ice zone; Scale invariance; 452; Antarctic; Okhotsk; The Antarctic; Weddell; Weddell Sea; Wilkes Land; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2115/46199; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2010.10.034

In the marginal sea ice zone (MIZ), where relatively small ice floes are dominant, the floe size distribution is an important parameter affecting melt processes given the larger cumulative perimeter of multiple small floes compared with a single ice floe of the same area. Smaller ice floes are there...