20 February 2025 | Increased Rotational Coupling Between Antarctic Sea Ice and the Atmosphere Over the Last 30 Years

Wayne de Jager and Marcello Vichi

 

Key Points of the article:

  • New generation sea-ice motion products capture weather-driven cyclonic and anticyclonic features in Antarctic sea ice at daily timescales

  • Increased correlation between sea-ice and atmospheric rotation dynamics indicates increasing response of ice to atmospheric forcing

  • The lack of trend in the ice or atmospheric vorticity points to an increasing ocean influence on ice mobility

 

To read the article, you can download the paper here.