Estimation of Antarctic land-fast sea ice algal biomass and snow thickness from under-ice radiance spectra in two contrasting areas

• Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
• Main Authors: Wongpan, P, Meiners, KM, Langhorne, PJ, Heil, P, Smith, IJ, Leonard, GH, Massom, RA, Clementson, LA, Haskell, TG
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc. 2018
• Subjects: Earth Sciences; Physical geography and environmental geoscience; Glaciology; Arctic; Antarctic; McMurdo Sound; Davis Station; Davis-Station; Antarc*; ice algae; Ice Shelf; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JC013711; http://ecite.utas.edu.au/129186

Fast ice is an important component of Antarctic coastal marine ecosystems, providing a prolific habitat for ice algal communities. This work examines the relationships between normalized difference indices (NDI) calculated from under‐ice radiance measurements and sea ice algal biomass and snow thick...