Brief description
This dataset (provided as a series of CF-compatible netcdf file) consists of 5 maps of Antarctic landfast sea ice, derived from NASA MODIS imagery. There is one map per year, spanning the 5 year period from 2018 to 2022. The one map per year covers the time period from Day-Of-Year 61-75, which is the time of yearly minimum extent. The data are provided in a polar stereographic projection with a latitude of true scale at 70 S (i.e., to maintain compatibility with the NSIDC polar stereographic projection).Lineage
Progress Code: completedNotes
PurposeThis circum-Antarctic dataset of landfast sea ice minimum yearly extent a) illustrates the large inter-annual variability of fast-ice minimum extent, and b) indicates a sharp decline in minimum fast-ice extent in 2022.
Data time period: 2018-03-02 to 2022-03-17
text: westlimit=-180; southlimit=-83; eastlimit=180; northlimit=-60
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- global : AAS_4116_Fast_ice_minimum_18to22