Linking Wave-Sea Ice Feedbacks to Rapid Ice Retreat

The influence of ocean waves on Antarctic sea-ice albedo and seasonal melting, and potential coupled physical and biological feedbacks

RA Massom, PA Reid, SG Warren, B Light, DK Perovich, LG Bennetts, P Uotila, SP O'Farrell, MH Meylan, KM Meiners, P Wongpan, AD Fraser, A Toffoli, G Passerotti, PG Strutton, SMT Chua, M Fedrigo

2026-06-09

Identifying the full suite of processes that drive the melting of Antarctic sea ice each summer is crucial to improving the curren..

Revealing the Antarctic marginal ice zone with a decade-long wave-in-ice climatology.

Alexander D Fraser, Noah Day, Zhaohui Wang, Luke G Bennetts, Qingxiang Liu, Siobhan O'Farrell, Richard Coleman, Joey Voermans, Shiming Xu, Weixin Zhu, Matthis Auger, Robert A Massom, Pat Wongpan, Lisa Craw, Jill Brouwer, Takenobu Toyota, Petra Heil, Christopher Horvat

2026-05-20

The marginal ice zone (MIZ) is the region of sea ice that is strongly influenced by open-ocean processes, particularly ocean waves..

Sea Ice Floe Segmentation in Close-Range Optical Imagery Using Active Contour and Foundation Models

G Passerotti, A Alberello, M Vichi, LG Bennetts, J Bailey, A Toffoli

2026-02-01

The size of sea ice floes in the marginal ice zone (MIZ) is a key factor influencing ice coverage, albedo, wave propagation, and o..

Model study of ocean wave propagation through broken sea ice covers with variable ice concentration

JPA Pitt, LG Bennetts

2026-01-01

A theoretical model is used to study the propagation of water waves into and through the marginal ice zone. The marginal ice zone ..

Waves in ice

Luke G Bennetts

2026-01-01

Ocean surface waves can propagate long distances through regions containing floating ice covers. The impacts that ocean waves have..

Large-scale ice-shelf calving events follow prolonged amplifications in flexure

NJ Teder, LG Bennetts, PA Reid, RA Massom, JPA Pitt, TA Scambos, AD Fraser

2025-07-01

The retreat of Antarctic ice shelves due to calving and the subsequent reduction in buttressing of the Antarctic Ice Sheet are of ..

Long-term evolution of the Sulzberger Ice Shelf, West Antarctica: Insights from 74-year observations and 2022 Hunga-Tonga volcanic tsunami-induced calving

A Zhao, Y Cheng, AD Fraser, LG Bennetts, H Xiao, Q Liang, T Li, R Li

2024-11-15

On January 15, 2022, the eruption of the Hunga-Tonga volcano unleashed a tsunami that rapidly traversed the Pacific Ocean, soon re..