This website is the place to come to observe how landfast sea ice in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica thickens and cools throughout the winter.
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The station consists of an approximately 2 m long ice temperature probe, a data logger, a radio telemetry system and a battery power supply.
Using temperature probes is only one technique for measuring sea ice thickness. Other techniques include field measurements and remotely-sensed (aerial and space-based) observations.
