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In considering the historical literature relevant to the subject of ice thickness distribution, I was struck by the paper by Wittmann and Schule (1966) at the Lake Arrowhead symposium on the Arctic heat budget. They presented a synthesis of visual observations from aircraft showing ice concentration, lead spacings, percent coverage of several ice types, and ridging indices in subregions of the Arctic Ocean. Their format emphasizes the basic elements of present thinking--first, that we want properties averaged over space scales which include many ice features, and second, that these average properties vary on yet longer scales over the basin and from one season to the next, in ways of interest to the climatologist.
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Rothrock, D.A. (1986). Ice Thickness Distribution — Measurement and Theory. In: Untersteiner, N. (eds) The Geophysics of Sea Ice. NATO ASI Series. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-5352-0_9
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