Funding for this study has been provided by Natural Science Foundation of China under contract No.40271026;China Postdoctoral Science Foundation under contract No.20060400210;China National Society Commonweal Research Project under contract No.2001DLA50040-03;the support of K.C.Wong Education Foundation,Hong Kong
Based on the Chinese 19th National Antarctic Research Expedition,we carried out ship-based Antarctic sea-ice observa-tion on icebreaker Xue Long using Antarctic sea-ice process and climate (ASPeCt) criteria during aus...