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Ross Sea Ice Cover Decay WatchSeasonal: September through April
The sea ice cover in the Ross Sea is particularly interesting in the melt season. In the Arctic ocean, the ice cover generally decays from the edge inward. In much of the Antarctic, there is a more or less steady decay of the ice cover across the whole region (see the animations on http://polar.ncep.noaa.gov/seaice/Historical.html for November through February each year). In the Ross Sea, the ice cover decays from the north (the warm side, remember this is the southern hemisphere) and from the coast outwards. While this happens in certain other parts of the Antarctic as well, it is especially strong in the Ross Sea.
An archive of the previous images is kept on-line in ftp://polar.ncep.noaa.gov/pub/ice/ross/ Robert.Grumbine@noaa.gov Last Modified 17 June 2004 Return to Sea Ice Analysis Page Return to Sea Ice Main Page Return to Marine Modeling and Analysis Branch Main Page
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