Winter-to-summer transition of Arctic sea ice breakup and floe size distribution in the Beaufort Sea

Winter-to-summer transition of Arctic sea ice breakup and floe size distribution in the Beaufort Sea

Breakup of the near-continuous winter sea ice into discrete summer ice floes is an important transition that dictates the evolution and fate of the marginal ice zone (MIZ) of the Arctic Ocean. During the winter of 2014, more than 50 autonomous drifting buoys were deployed in four separate clusters o...

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Main Authors: Byongjun Hwang, Jeremy Wilkinson, Edward Maksym, Hans C. Graber, Axel Schweiger, Christopher Horvat, Donald K. Perovich, Alexandra E. Arntsen, Timothy P. Stanton, Jinchang Ren, Peter Wadhams
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BioOne 2017-07-01
Series:Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene
Subjects:
sea ice
breakup
floe size distribution
marginal ice zone
Arctic
Online Access:https://www.elementascience.org/articles/232

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