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: Fraser, A.D., Massom, R.A., Handcock, M.S., Reid, P., Ohshima, K.I., Raphael, M.N., Cartwright, J., Klekociuk, A.R., Wang, Z., Porter-Smith, R.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications; European Geosciences Union 2021
• Subjects: Antarctic; Bellingshausen Sea; Cartwright; East Antarctica; Kay; Oates Land; Ross Sea; The Antarctic; West Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Sea ice; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/2440/134517; https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-5061-2021

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...