Long-term monitoring of landfast sea ice extent and thickness in Kongsfjorden, and related applications

• Main Authors: Gerland, Sebastian, Pavlova, Olga, Divine, Dimitry, Negrel, Jean, Dahlke, Sandro, Johansson, A Malin, Maturilli, Marion, Semmling, Maximilian
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System 2020
• Subjects: Kongsfjorden; Svalbard; sea ice; fast ice; time series; climate change; Climate change; Kongsfjord*; Norwegian Polar Institute; Ny Ålesund; Ny-Ålesund; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4707148

This is chapter 6 of the State of Environmental Science in Svalbard (SESS) report 2019 ( https://sios-svalbard.org/SESS_Issue2 ). Landfast sea ice (ice anchored to the shore) covers the inner parts of Kongsfjorden, Svalbard, in winter and spring, and is an important feature for the physical and biol...