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20 Feb 2023
Research article |
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Aerial observations of sea ice breakup by ship waves
Elie Dumas-Lefebvre
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Institut des sciences de la mer de Rimouski, Université du Québec à Rimouski, 310 allée des ursulines, Rimouski, QC, G5L 3A1, Canada
Dany Dumont
Institut des sciences de la mer de Rimouski, Université du Québec à Rimouski, 310 allée des ursulines, Rimouski, QC, G5L 3A1, Canada
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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.
By changing the shape of ice floes, wave-induced sea ice breakup dramatically affects the...
