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Volume 6: Polar and Arctic Sciences and Technology, 2023
Abstract Sea ice reporting and ice charts are a necessary simplification of highly variable sea ice conditions over large areas. Ice conditions are typically shown using egg codes. These codes can be used to determine an equivalent ice thickness as a method for calculating a ship’s ice resistance.
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Estimating the thickness of sea ice

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 1989
Sea ice freeboard, thickness, and snow depth were measured from a series of closely spaced (5 to 10 m) drill hole sites from five free‐floating multiyear ice floes in the Beaufort Sea during the spring of 1986 and 1987. A regression of ice thickness on ice draft was performed on the data from each floe and for the combined data set.
Robert H. Bourke, Robert G. Paquette
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Thick Sea-ice Floes

ARCTIC, 1979
This paper examines how sea ice floes of thickness exceeding 6 m can be formed in the Arctic. Such floes have been observed by a Soviet drifting station, by a submarine at the North Pole, and at three sites in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. The Maykut and Untersteiner model of sea ice growth predicts an equilibrium thickness of 3 m under normal ...
E.R. Walker, Peter Wadhams
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Sea ice deformation and sea ice thickness change

2022
The Arctic Ocean is undergoing a major transition from a year-round sea ice cover to ice-free summers with global consequences. Sea ice thickness is at the center of the ongoing changes because the thickness regulates key processes of the Arctic climate system and in the last six decades, the mean thickness has more than halved.
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