Mechanisms controlling the temporal variation of the sea ice edge in the Southern Ocean |
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| Authors: | Noriaki Kimura |
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| Institution: | (1) Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-0819, Japan |
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| Abstract: | This paper examines the mechanism controlling the short time-scale variation of sea ice cover over the Southern Ocean. Sea
ice concentration and ice velocity datasets derived from images of the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) Special
Sensor Microwave Imager (SSM/I) are employed to reveal this mechanism. The contribution of both dynamic and thermodynamic
processes to the change in ice edge location is examined by comparing the meridional velocity of ice edge displacement and
sea ice drift. In the winter expansion phase, the thermodynamic process of new ice production off the ice edge plays an important
role in daily advances of ice cover, whereas daily retreats are mostly due to southward ice drift. On the other hand, both
advance and retreat of ice edges in the spring contraction phase are mostly caused by the dynamic process of the ice drift.
Based on the above mechanism and the linear relation between the degree of ice production at the ice edge and northward wind
speed, the seasonal advance of ice cover can be roughly reproduced using the meridional velocity of ice drift at the ice edge. |
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| Keywords: | Sea ice Southern Ocean satellite microwave observation |
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