Eighteen-year record of circum-Antarctic landfast-sea-ice distribution allows detailed baseline characterisation and reveals trends and variability

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: A. D. Fraser, R. A. Massom, M. S. Handcock, P. Reid, K. I. Ohshima, M. N. Raphael, J. Cartwright, A. R. Klekociuk, Z. Wang, R. Porter-Smith
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2021
• Subjects: envir; geo; Antarctic; The Antarctic; East Antarctica; Ross Sea; West Antarctica; Bellingshausen Sea; Oates Land; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Sea ice; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-5061-2021; https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/15/5061/2021/tc-15-5061-2021.pdf; https://doaj.org/article/7aa407daf1784738a54b1a15e7b29e9f

Landfast sea ice (fast ice) is an important though poorly understood component of the cryosphere on the Antarctic continental shelf, where it plays a key role in atmosphere–ocean–ice-sheet interaction and coupled ecological and biogeochemical processes. Here, we present a first in-depth baseline ana...