Marine icing is ice accumulation on vessels and offshore constructions which endanger marine operations. To avoid or reduce icing it is important to understand this physical phenomenon and to be able to forecast it. However, measurements of marine icing are scarce and most of them were done manually with poor time resolution. There are no standardized sensors for marine icing measurements. A new system consisting of load cells was developed and applied in a field experiment. The system made it possible to measure spray flux and mass increase of the ice accretion with a time resolution of less than a second and high precision. This paper presents this system and the results obtained in the field. It also suggests a further modification of the system which can be used for autonomous measurements of ice accretion rates on vessels or offshore constructions.
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