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Drift of pancake ice floes in the winter Antarctic marginal ice zone during polar cyclones
Alberello, A.; Bennetts, L.; Heil, P.; Eayrs, C.; Vichi, M.; MacHutchon, K.; Onorato, M.; Toffoli, A. (2020). Drift of pancake ice floes in the winter Antarctic marginal ice zone during polar cyclones. JGR: Oceans 125(3): e2019JC015418. https://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2019JC015418
In: Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans. AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION: Washington. ISSN 2169-9275; e-ISSN 2169-9291, meer
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    Marien/Kust
Author keywords
    sea ice; marginal ice zone; drift; pancake ice; Antarctic; buoy

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  • Alberello, A.
  • Bennetts, L.
  • Heil, P.
  • Eayrs, C.
  • Vichi, M.
  • MacHutchon, K.
  • Onorato, M.
  • Toffoli, A., meer

Abstract
    High temporal resolution in situ measurements of pancake ice drift are presented, from a pair of buoys deployed on floes in the Antarctic marginal ice zone during the winter sea ice expansion, over 9 days in which the region was impacted by four polar cyclones. Concomitant measurements of wave-in-ice activity from the buoys are used to infer that the ice remained unconsolidated, and pancake ice conditions were maintained over at least the first 7 days. Analysis of the data shows (i) the fastest reported ice drift speeds in the Southern Ocean; (ii) high correlation of drift velocities with the surface wind velocities, indicating absence of internal ice stresses >100 km from the ice edge where remotely sensed ice concentration is 100%; and (iii) presence of a strong inertial signature with a 13 hr period. A Lagrangian free drift model is developed, including a term for geostrophic currents that reproduce the 13 hr period signature in the ice motion. The calibrated model provides accurate predictions of the ice drift for up to 2 days, and the calibrated parameters provide estimates of wind and ocean drag for pancake floes under storm conditions.

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