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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-827-2023
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-827-2023
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20 Feb 2023
Research article |  | 20 Feb 2023

Aerial observations of sea ice breakup by ship waves

Elie Dumas-Lefebvre and Dany Dumont

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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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