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Antarctic ice shelf disintegration triggered by sea ice loss and ocean swell by Massom, Robert A., Scambos, Theodore A., Bennetts, Luke G., Reid, Phillip, Squire, Vernon A., Stammerjohn, Sharon E.

“…Understanding the causes of recent catastrophic ice shelf disintegrations is a crucial step towards improving coupled models of the Antarctic Ice Sheet and…”
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High-resolution mapping of circum-Antarctic landfast sea ice distribution, 2000–2018 by Fraser, Alexander D, Massom, Robert A, Ohshima, Kay I, Willmes, Sascha, Kappes, Peter J, Cartwright, Jessica, Porter-Smith, Richard

“…Landfast sea ice (fast ice) is an important component of the Antarctic nearshore marine environment, where it strongly modulates ice sheet–ocean–atmosphere…”
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Antarctic sea ice change and variability – Physical and ecological implications by Massom, Robert A., Stammerjohn, Sharon E.

“…Although Antarctic sea ice is undergoing a slight increase in overall extent, major regional changes are occurring in its spatio-temporal characteristics (most…”
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East Antarctic Landfast Sea Ice Distribution and Variability, 2000–08 by Fraser, Alexander D., Massom, Robert A., Michael, Kelvin J., Galton-Fenzi, Benjamin K., Lieser, Jan L.

“…This study presents the first continuous, high spatiotemporal resolution time series of landfast sea ice extent along the East Antarctic coast for the period…”
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Landfast ice controls on sea-ice production in the Cape Darnley Polynya: A case study by Fraser, Alexander D., Ohshima, Kay I., Nihashi, Sohey, Massom, Robert A., Tamura, Takeshi, Nakata, Kazuki, Williams, Guy D., Carpentier, Scott, Willmes, Sascha

“…Antarctic coastal polynyas serve as crucially-important sea-ice “factories” and are (in certain cases) of global significance as sites of Antarctic Bottom…”
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Examining the interaction between multi-year landfast sea ice and the Mertz Glacier Tongue, East Antarctica: Another factor in ice sheet stability? by Massom, Robert A., Giles, A. Barry, Fricker, Helen A., Warner, Roland C., Legrésy, Benoit, Hyland, Glenn, Young, Neal, Fraser, Alexander D.

“…The Mertz Glacier tongue (MGT), East Antarctica, has a large area of multi‐year fast sea ice (MYFI) attached to its eastern edge. We use various satellite data…”
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Generation of high-resolution East Antarctic landfast sea-ice maps from cloud-free MODIS satellite composite imagery by Fraser, Alexander D., Massom, Robert A., Michael, Kelvin J.

“…A method to generate high spatio-temporal resolution maps of landfast sea ice from cloud-free MODIS composite imagery is presented. Visible (summertime) and…”
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Fast-ice distribution in East Antarctica during 1997 and 1999 determined using RADARSAT data by Giles, A. Barry, Massom, Robert A., Lytle, Victoria I.

“…We present the first detailed maps of fast ice around East Antarctica (75°E–170°E), using an image correlation technique applied to RADARSAT ScanSAR images…”
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Evaluation of AMSR-E snow depth product over East Antarctic sea ice using in situ measurements and aerial photography by Worby, Anthony P., Markus, Thorsten, Steer, Adam D., Lytle, Victoria I., Massom, Robert A.

“…The Antarctic Remote Ice Sensing Experiment (ARISE) was conducted in the East Antarctic sea ice zone during September–October 2003. A key objective of this…”
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West Antarctic Peninsula sea ice in 2005: Extreme ice compaction and ice edge retreat due to strong anomaly with respect to climate by Massom, Robert A., Stammerjohn, Sharon E., Lefebvre, Wouter, Harangozo, Stephen A., Adams, Neil, Scambos, Theodore A., Pook, Michael J., Fowler, Charles

“…In September–October 2005, the juxtaposition of low‐ and high‐pressure anomalies at 130°W and 60°W, respectively, created strong and persistent northerly…”
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Regional-scale sea-ice and snow thickness distributions from in situ and satellite measurements over East Antarctica during SIPEX 2007 by Worby, Anthony P., Steer, Adam, Lieser, Jan L., Heil, Petra, Yi, Donghui, Markus, Thorsten, Allison, Ian, Massom, Robert A., Galin, Natalia, Zwally, Jay

“…The Sea Ice Physics and Ecosystem eXperiment (SIPEX) was conducted in the East Antarctic pack ice zone between 115-130°E from 9 September – 11 October, 2007…”
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Extreme Anomalous Atmospheric Circulation in the West Antarctic Peninsula Region in Austral Spring and Summer 2001/02, and Its Profound Impact on Sea Ice and Biota by Massom, Robert A., Stammerjohn, Sharon E., Smith, Raymond C., Pook, Michael J., Iannuzzi, Richard A., Adams, Neil, Martinson, Douglas G., Vernet, Maria, Fraser, William R., Quetin, Langdon B., Ross, Robin M., Massom, Yuko, Krouse, H. Roy

“…Exceptional sea ice conditions occurred in the West Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) region from September 2001 to February 2002, resulting from a strongly positive…”
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Physical attributes of sea-ice kinematics during spring 2007 off East Antarctica by Heil, Petra, Massom, Robert A., Allison, Ian, Worby, Anthony P.

“…In austral spring 2007, two meso-scale (of the order of 10–100 km) drifting buoy arrays were deployed to investigate the sea-ice kinematics off East Antarctica…”
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External influences on the Mertz Glacier Tongue (East Antarctica) in the decade leading up to its calving in 2010 by Massom, Robert A., Giles, A. Barry, Warner, Roland C., Fricker, Helen A., Legrésy, Benoit, Hyland, Glenn, Lescarmontier, Lydie, Young, Neal

“…The Mertz Glacier Tongue (MGT) in East Antarctica lost ~55% of its floating length in February 2010, when it calved large tabular iceberg C28 (78 × 35 km). We…”
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Delivering Sustained, Coordinated, and Integrated Observations of the Southern Ocean for Global Impact by Newman, Louise, Heil, Petra, Trebilco, Rowan, Katsumata, Katsuro, Constable, Andrew, van Wijk, Esmee, Assmann, Karen, Beja, Joana, Bricher, Phillippa, Coleman, Richard, Costa, Daniel, Diggs, Steve, Farneti, Riccardo, Fawcett, Sarah, Gille, Sarah T., Hendry, Katharine R., Henley, Sian, Hofmann, Eileen, Maksym, Ted, Mazloff, Matthew, Meijers, Andrew, Meredith, Michael M., Moreau, Sebastien, Ozsoy, Burcu, Robertson, Robin, Schloss, Irene, Schofield, Oscar, Shi, Jiuxin, Sikes, Elisabeth, Smith, Inga J., Swart, Sebastiaan, Wahlin, Anna, Williams, Guy, Williams, Michael J. M., Herraiz-Borreguero, Laura, Kern, Stefan, Lieser, Jan, Massom, Robert A., Melbourne-Thomas, Jessica, Miloslavich, Patricia, Spreen, Gunnar

“…The Southern Ocean is disproportionately important in its effect on the Earth system, impacting climatic, biogeochemical and ecological systems, which makes…”
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Precipitation over the Interior East Antarctic Ice Sheet Related to Midlatitude Blocking-High Activity by Massom, Robert A., Pook, Michael J., Comiso, Josefino C., Adams, Neil, Turner, John, Lachlan-Cope, Tom, Gibson, Timothy T.

“…Intermittent atmospheric blocking-high activity in the South Tasman Sea is shown to play a key role in delivering substantial snowfall as far south as at least…”
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Role of off-shelf to on-shelf transitions for East Antarctic sea ice dynamics during spring 2003 by Heil, Petra, Massom, Robert A., Allison, Ian, Worby, Anthony P., Lytle, Victoria I.

“…During austral spring 2003, mesoscale sea ice drift and deformation off East Antarctica were investigated using in situ data from a nine‐buoy array. Upon…”
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Rapid development and persistence of a massive Antarctic sea ice tongue by Rintoul, Stephen R., Sokolov, Serguei, Massom, Robert A.

“…An extraordinary sea ice tongue developed near 85°E over a period of 30 days in April–May 2002. The ice tongue extended to the north more than 800 km from the…”
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Eighteen-year record of circum-Antarctic landfast-sea-ice distribution allows detailed baseline characterisation and reveals trends and variability by Fraser, Alexander D, Massom, Robert A, Handcock, Mark S, Reid, Phillip, Ohshima, Kay I, Raphael, Marilyn N, Cartwright, Jessica, Klekociuk, Andrew R, Wang, Zhaohui, Porter-Smith, Richard

“…Landfast sea ice (fast ice) is an important though poorly understood component of the cryosphere on the Antarctic continental shelf, where it plays a key role…”
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Altimetric observation of wave attenuation through the Antarctic marginal ice zone using ICESat-2 by Brouwer, Jill, Fraser, Alexander D, Murphy, Damian J, Wongpan, Pat, Alberello, Alberto, Kohout, Alison, Horvat, Christopher, Wotherspoon, Simon, Massom, Robert A, Cartwright, Jessica, Williams, Guy D

“…The Antarctic marginal ice zone (MIZ) is a highly dynamic region where sea ice interacts with ocean surface waves generated in ice-free areas of the Southern…”
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