Interannual sea ice thickness variability in the Bay of Bothnia

Ronkainen, Iina; Lehtiranta, Jonni; Lensu, Mikko; Rinne, Eero; Haapala, Jari; Haas, Christian

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-3459-2018

Articles | Volume 12, issue 11

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-3459-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-3459-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 12, issue 11

Research article

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08 Nov 2018

Research article |

| 08 Nov 2018

Interannual sea ice thickness variability in the Bay of Bothnia

Iina Ronkainen, Jonni Lehtiranta, Mikko Lensu, Eero Rinne, Jari Haapala, and Christian Haas

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RC1: 'Review of Interannual sea ice thickness variability in the Bay of Bothnia by Ronkainen et al.', Anonymous Referee #1, 12 Jun 2018
RC2: 'Interannual sea ice thickness variability in the Bay of Bothnia', Anonymous Referee #2, 29 Jun 2018
AC1: 'Author response to both reviews', Iina Ronkainen, 05 Sep 2018

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AR by Iina Ronkainen on behalf of the Authors (15 Oct 2018)

Short summary

We quantify the sea ice thickness variability in the Bay of Bothnia using various observational data sets. For the first time we use helicopter and shipborne electromagnetic soundings to study changes in drift ice of the Bay of Bothnia. Our results show that the interannual variability of ice thickness is larger in the drift ice zone than in the fast ice zone. Furthermore, the mean thickness of heavily ridged ice near the coast can be several times larger than that of fast ice.