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Articles | Volume 17, issue 2
Articles | Volume 17, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-827-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-827-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 17, issue 2
Research article
 | 
20 Feb 2023
Research article |  | 20 Feb 2023

Aerial observations of sea ice breakup by ship waves

Elie Dumas-Lefebvre and Dany Dumont

Data sets

Wave-induced sea ice breakup in the Northern Baffin Bay Elie Dumas-Lefebvre and Dany Dumont https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.21208.21767

Wave-induced sea ice breakup experiment in the Gulf of Saint-Lawrence Elie Dumas-Lefebvre and Dany Dumont https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.27919.10403

Model code and software

Wave-induced sea ice breakup footage processing scripts (tc-2023) Elie Dumas-Lefebvre and Dany Dumont https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7632812

Video supplement

Aerial footage of wave-induced sea ice breakup in the Gulf of Saint-Lawrence Elie Dumas-Lefebvre and Dany Dumont https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.32873.62564

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Short summary
By changing the shape of ice floes, wave-induced sea ice breakup dramatically affects the large-scale dynamics of sea ice. As this process is also the trigger of multiple others, it was deemed relevant to study how breakup itself affects the ice floe size distribution. To do so, a ship sailed close to ice floes, and the breakup that it generated was recorded with a drone. The obtained data shed light on the underlying physics of wave-induced sea ice breakup.
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