Variability of sea-ice in the northern Weddell Sea during the 20th century

• Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
• Main Authors: Murphy, E.J., Clarke, A., Abram, N.J., Turner, J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2014
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Weddell Sea; Amundsen Sea; Pacific; Weddell; South Orkney Islands; Antarc*; Antarctica; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/507828/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/507828/1/jgrc20771.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1002/2013JC009511

The record of winter fast-ice in the South Orkney Islands, northern Weddell Sea, Antarctica is over a century long and provides the longest observational record of sea-ice variability in the Southern Hemisphere. Here we present analyses of the series of fast-ice formation and breakout dates from 190...