Observations of sea ice ridging in the Weddell Sea
| Autor: | Hardy B. Granberg, Matti Leppäranta |
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| Rok vydání: | 1999 |
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Atmospheric Science
geography geography.geographical_feature_category Ecology Paleontology Soil Science Forestry Aquatic Science Oceanography Snow Geophysics Arctic Space and Planetary Science Geochemistry and Petrology Ridge Climatology Log-normal distribution Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) Sea ice Statistical analysis Transect Geomorphology Geology Earth-Surface Processes Water Science and Technology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. 104:25735-25745 |
| ISSN: | 0148-0227 |
| DOI: | 10.1029/1999jc900160 |
| Popis: | Sea ice surface topography data were obtained by helicopter-borne laser profiling during the First Finnish Antarctic Expedition (FINNARP-89). The measurements were made near the ice margin at about 73°S, 27°W in the eastern Weddell Sea on December 31, 1989, and January 1, 1990. Five transects, ranging in length from 127 to 163 km and covering a total length of 724 km, are analyzed. With a lower cutoff of 0.91 m the overall ridge frequency was 8.4 ridges/km and the average ridge height was 1.32 m. The spatial variations in ridging were large; for 36 individual 20-km segments the frequencies were 2–16 ridges/km and the mean heights were 1.16–1.56 m. The frequencies and mean heights were weakly correlated. The distributions of the ridge heights followed the exponential distribution; the spacings did not pass tests for either the exponential or the lognormal distribution, but the latter was much closer. In the 20-km segments the areally averaged thickness of ridged ice was 0.51±0.28 m, ranging from 0.10 to 1.15 m. The observed ridge size and frequency are greater than those known for the Ross Sea. Compared with the central Arctic, the Weddell Sea ridging frequencies are similar but the ridge heights are smaller, possibly as a result of differences in snow accumulation. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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