Studies on landfast ice variability with unmanned observation system in the Antarctic

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24651016
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Environmental dynamic analysis
• Research Institution: National Institute of Polar Research
• Principal Investigator: Ushio Shuki 国立極地研究所, 研究教育系, 准教授 (50211769)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): TATEYAMA Kazutaka 北見工業大学, 工学部, 准教授 (30374789)
• Research Collaborator: HOSHINO Seita
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 海洋科学 / 環境変動 / 極地 / 南極 / 海氷

Outline of Final Research Achievements

A prototype unmanned observation system of sea ice, along with finding the improvements for the future deployment, and discussion for studies on variability mechanism of multi-year landfast ice, in cooperation with research collaborators. For the development of the observation system to understand the sea ice growth/melt processes on the basis of the local observation data, ice thickness in addition to the snow depth measurements, continuous measurement of the temperature profiles in the ice and snow layer, measuremnt technique has been also improved.
In addition, as the target of the Lutzow-Holm Bay, Antarctic, characteristics of coastal sea ice variation has been revealed for the past three decades using the previous data.

Free Research Field

極域海洋学