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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-5031-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-5031-2024
Research article
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06 Nov 2024
Research article |  | 06 Nov 2024

Seasonal evolution of the sea ice floe size distribution in the Beaufort Sea from 2 decades of MODIS data

Ellen M. Buckley, Leela Cañuelas, Mary-Louise Timmermans, and Monica M. Wilhelmus

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Arctic sea ice cover evolves seasonally from large plates separated by long, linear leads in the winter to a mosaic of smaller sea ice floes in the summer. Here, we present a new image segmentation algorithm applied to thousands of images and identify over 9 million individual pieces of ice. We observe the characteristics of the floes and how they evolve throughout the summer as the ice breaks up.