[Antarctica and Southern Ocean] Sea ice extent, concentration, and seasonality [in 'State of the Climate in 2018']

• Published in: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
• Main Authors: Reid, P, Stammerjohn, S, Massom, RA, Barreira, S, Scambos, T, Lieser, JL
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Amer Meteorological Soc 2019
• Subjects: Earth Sciences; Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience; Glaciology; Antarctic; Southern Ocean; Antarc*; Antarctica; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://www.ametsoc.org/index.cfm/ams/publications/bulletin-of-the-american-meteorological-society-bams/state-of-the-climate/; https://doi.org/10.1175/2019BAMSStateoftheClimate.1; http://ecite.utas.edu.au/134493

Antarctic sea ice plays a pivotal role in the global climate system. Forming a highly-dynamic reflective and insulative blanket that varies seasonally from ~3 to ~20 106 km 2 , sea ice and its snow cover strongly modify oceanatmosphere fluxes and interaction processes (Bourassa et al. 2013).