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Articles | Volume 16, issue 5
Articles | Volume 16, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-1563-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-1563-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 16, issue 5
Research article
 | 
04 May 2022
Research article |  | 04 May 2022

Characterizing the sea-ice floe size distribution in the Canada Basin from high-resolution optical satellite imagery

Alexis Anne Denton and Mary-Louise Timmermans

Data sets

Sea-Ice Floe Segmentation Products Derived from MEDEA Imagery for 1999 through 2014 in the Canada Basin Alexis Anne Denton and Mary-Louise Timmermans https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6341621

Model code and software

Sea-Ice Floe Segmentation Alexis Anne Denton https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6146144

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Short summary
Arctic sea ice has a distribution of ice sizes that provides insight into the physics of the ice. We examine this distribution from satellite imagery from 1999 to 2014 in the Canada Basin. We find that it appears as a power law whose power becomes less negative with increasing ice concentrations and has a seasonality tied to that of ice concentration. Results suggest ice concentration be considered in models of this distribution and are important for understanding sea ice in a warming Arctic.
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