Abstract
Previous studies demonstrated that sea ice contains as much nutrients as natural riverine water, which suggests that sea ice can bring nutrients from the northern to southern part of the Sea of Okhotsk by freezing riverine water. Therefore, sea ice is considered to transport nutrient to the southern part of the Sea of Okhotsk. However, sea ice that comes along the coastal region of the Sea of Okhotsk is revealed to decrease due to the climate change. This study thus aims to investigate how sea ice is transported by using satellite images. The proposed method was able to estimate the transfer vector of sea ice.
