Local Climatology of Fast Ice in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica

• Published in: Antarctic Science
• Main Authors: Kim, Stacy, Saenz, Ben, Scanniello, Jeff, Daly, Kendra L., Ainley, David
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Digital Commons @ University of South Florida 2018
• Subjects: coastal food webs; ice–ocean interactions; long-term trends; Ross Sea; sea ice; Southern Ocean; Life Sciences; McMurdo Sound; McMurdo Station; Antarc*; Antarctica; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/msc_facpub/881; https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954102017000578

Fast ice plays important physical and ecological roles: as a barrier to wind, waves and radiation, as both barrier and safe resting place for air-breathing animals, and as substrate for microbial communities. While sea ice has been monitored for decades using satellite imagery, high-resolution image...