Sea ice reports for the Antarctic shipping season 2018-2019

• Main Author: Lieser, JL
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: The Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre 2019
• Subjects: Earth Sciences; Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience; Glaciology; Antarctic; The Antarctic; East Antarctica; New Zealand; Antarc*; Antarctica; Australian Antarctic Program; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://ecite.utas.edu.au/132262

The sea-ice reports compiled in this document are weekly reports on sea-ice conditionsfor East Antarctica, including sub-weekly updates. They were prepared to support shipoperations in East Antarctica during the 2018/2019 shipping season. These reports wereprimarily used to inform the Australian Antarctic program, but were provided to otherAntarctic operators as well. In particular, we assisted the US National Science Foundation(RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer), Royal New Zealand Navy (HMNZS Otago), the FrenchSouthern and Antarctic Lands Administration (OPV l'Astrolabe), New Zealand's NationalInstitute of Water and Atmospheric Research (RV Tangaroa), and the Australian MarineNational Facility (RV Investigator).