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

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: Fraser, AD, Massom, RA, Handcock, MS, Reid, P, Ohshima, KI, Raphael, MN, Cartwright, J, Klekociuk, AR, Wang, Z, Porter-Smith, R
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus GmbH 2021
• Subjects: Earth Sciences; Physical geography and environmental geoscience; Glaciology; Antarctic; The Antarctic; East Antarctica; Ross Sea; West Antarctica; Bellingshausen Sea; Oates Land; Antarc*; Antarctica; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-5061-2021; http://ecite.utas.edu.au/144083

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 atmosphereoceanice-sheet interaction and coupled ecological and biogeochemical processes. Here, we present a first in-depth baseline analy...