Published February 19, 2026
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Thesis
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Sea Ice Age in the Weddell Sea, Antarctica
Authors/Creators
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Utrecht University, Faculty of Geosciences
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Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center
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Utrecht University, Faculty of Science, Physics and Astronomy, Institute for Marine and Atmospheric research Utrecht
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Delft University of Technology
Description
This thesis presents the first Climate Data Record of Sea Ice Age for the Weddell Sea, covering the period 2000-2025. By adapting a Lagrangian framework originally developed for the Arctic (Korosov et al., 2026), satellite-derived Sea Ice Drift (SID) and Sea Ice Concentration (SIC) are combined on a Triangular mesh to track the evolution of individual ice parcels and derive distinct age classes. A data gap exists from 2006 to 2007.