“…The C‐band radars were replaced in 2004 by a HF radar network, which provides information on the location of the sea ice edge but not ice drift (Shirasawa et al, ). The earliest studies to employ coastal MRs focus on sea ice imaging, but also discuss the sea ice classification potential (i.e., distinguishing between open water, first‐year ice, multiyear ice, and icebergs; Flock, ; Haykin et al, ; Lewis et al, ; Shapiro & Metzner, ). More recently, a MR installed in Barrow, AK, has been used to study the attachment and detachment of nearshore ice (Druckenmiller et al, ; Mahoney et al, ).…”