On the coagulated pancake ice formation: Observation in the refreezing Chukchi Sea and comparison to the Antarctic consolidated pancake ice

• Published in: Polar Science
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Pancake ice formation in the refreezing Chukchi Sea; Observation of surface waves and sea ice in the marginal ice zone; R/V Mirai Arctic Ocean expedition; Arctic; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Arctic Ocean; Chukchi Sea; Pancake; Antarc*; Chukchi; Polar Science; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://nipr.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_uri&item_id=16397; http://id.nii.ac.jp/1291/00016275/

Emergence of pancake ice in the western Arctic Ocean is understood to be an effect of the increasing wave activity. During the 2018 R/V Mirai field campaign in the refreezing Chukchi Sea, we obtained observational evidence of sea ice formation that resembled the pancake cycle—frazil/pancake/consolid...