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CRYOSPHERE
Volume 13, Issue 1, Pages 41-48Publisher
COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH
DOI: 10.5194/tc-13-41-2019
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- South African National Antarctic Programme through the National Research Foundation
- ACE Foundation
- Ferring Pharmaceuticals
- Australian Antarctic Science Program [4434]
- Departments of Excellence 2018-2022 grant - Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR) [L.232/2016]
- NYUAD Center for the Global Sea Level Change project [G1204]
- Air-Sea-Ice Lab Project
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The size distribution of pancake ice floes is calculated from images acquired during a voyage to the Antarctic marginal ice zone in the winter expansion season. Results show that 50% of the sea ice area is made up of floes with diameters of 2.3-4 m. The floe size distribution shows two distinct slopes on either side of the 2.3-4 m range, neither of which conforms to a power law. Following a relevant recent study, it is conjectured that the growth of pancakes from frazil forms the distribution of small floes (D < 2.3 m), and welding of pancakes forms the distribution of large floes (D > 4 m).
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