Power Scaling and Seasonal Changes of Floe Areas in the Arctic East Siberian Sea

• Main Authors: Geise, Eric, Barton, Christopher C., Tebbens, S. F.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: CORE Scholar 2017
• Subjects: Inflection Point; Floe Area; Fault Gouge; Power Scaling; Fragment Size Distribution; Earth Sciences; Environmental Sciences; Physical Sciences and Mathematics; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; East Siberian Sea; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/ees/133

The cumulative number versus floe area distribution of seasonal sea floes from six satellite images of the Arctic Ocean during the summer breakup and melting is fit by two scale-invariant power law scaling regimes for floe areas ranging from 30 to 28,400,000 m2. Scaling exponents, β, for larger floe...