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Articles | Volume 15, issue 9
Articles | Volume 15, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-4527-2021
© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-4527-2021
© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 15, issue 9
Research article
 | 
28 Sep 2021
Research article |  | 28 Sep 2021

A lead-width distribution for Antarctic sea ice: a case study for the Weddell Sea with high-resolution Sentinel-2 images

Marek Muchow, Amelie U. Schmitt, and Lars Kaleschke

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Linear-like openings in sea ice, also called leads, occur with widths from meters to kilometers. We use satellite images from Sentinel-2 with a resolution of 10 m to identify leads and measure their widths. With that we investigate the frequency of lead widths using two different statistical methods, since other studies have shown a dependency of heat exchange on the lead width. We are the first to address the sea-ice lead-width distribution in the Weddell Sea, Antarctica.
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