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The analysis of an 85-year-long series of observations over the ice cover of the Sea of Okhotsk and the Sea of Japan has shown that stable ice zones that preserve the characteristic features of ice conditions during various ice development phases are distinguished in the ice mass. This circumstance has made it possible to apply the idea of a hierarchical classification of the ice mass for zoning sea areas by ice-geographical traits. This method allows for the introduction of a new approach to ensuring the safety of marine operations on the shelf of freezing seas, including the localization and liquidation of possible natural and anthropogenic emergencies.
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Original Russian Text © I.G. Minervin, V.A. Romanyuk, V.M. Pishchal’nik, P.A. Truskov, S.A. Pokrashenko, 2015, published in Vestnik Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, 2015, Vol. 85, No. 3, pp. 209–217.
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Minervin, I.G., Romanyuk, V.A., Pishchal’nik, V.M. et al. Zoning the ice cover of the Sea of Okhotsk and the Sea of Japan. Her. Russ. Acad. Sci. 85, 132–139 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1019331615010049
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