SAR image wave spectra to retrieve the thickness of grease-pancake sea ice using viscous wave propagation models

• Published in: Scientific Reports
• Main Authors: De Carolis, Giacomo, Olla, Piero, De Santi, Francesca
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Publishing Group UK 2021
• Subjects: Article; Arctic; Keller; Pancake; Weddell; Weddell Sea; Antarc*; Antarctica; Beaufort Sea; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7851169/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33526830; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-82228-x

Young sea ice composed of grease and pancake ice (GPI), as well as thin floes, considered to be the most common form of sea ice fringing Antarctica, is now becoming the “new normal” also in the Arctic. A study of the rheological properties of GPI is carried out by comparing the predictions of two vi...