Key scientific questions which must be answered to meet the objectives of the ASPeCt Program are:
- What are the broad-scale time-varying distributions of the ice and snow-cover thickness,
ice composition and other physical characteristics in the Antarctic sea ice zone?
- What are the dominant processes of ice formation, modification, decay and transport
which influence and determine ice-thickness, composition and distribution?
- What is the role of coastal polynyas in determining total ice production, heat, salt and biogeochemical
fluxes, and water mass modification?
- What are the processes that control the ice-water interactions at
the ice-edge, and their seasonal changes?
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