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Bourke & Paquette 1989
Bourke, R.H. and Paquette, R.G. (1989). Estimating the thickness of sea ice. Journal of Geophysical Research 94: doi: 10.1029/88JC03789. issn: 0148-0227.

Sea ice freeboard, thickness, and snow depth were measured from a series of closely spaced (5 to 10 m) drill hole sites from five free-floating multiyear ice floes in the Beaufort Sea during the spring of 1986 and 1987. A regression of ice thickness on ice draft was performed on the data from each floe and for the combined data set. Regressions were performed both on nonscreened data and data screened to eliminate pressure ridges. A predictive equation was developed permitting the total ice thickness to be estimated from measured values of ice draft, e.g., from submarine echo sounder traces: t=1.115 d. The keel--sail height ratio for pressure ridges was found constant at 3.3 to 1, in agreement with past observations. ¿ American Geophysical Union 1989

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Oceanography, Physical, Ice mechanics and air/sea/ice exchange processes, Hydrology, Snow and ice, Oceanography, General, Arctic and Antarctic oceanography
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Journal of Geophysical Research
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