Monitoring the melt season length of the Barnes Ice Cap over the 1979–2010 period using active and passive microwave remote sensing data

• Published in: Hydrological Processes
• Main Authors: Dupont, Florent, Royer, Alain, Langlois, Alexandre, Gressent, Alicia, Picard, Ghislain, Fily, Michel, Cliche, Patrick, Chum, Miroslav
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2012
• Subjects: Arctic; Baffin Island; Barnes Ice Cap; Canada; Canadian Arctic Archipelago; Clyde River; Nunavut; Arctic Archipelago; Baffin; Ice cap
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hyp.9382; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Fhyp.9382; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/hyp.9382

Abstract The Barnes Ice Cap (BIC) located on Baffin Island (Nunavut, Canada) is one of the most southern ice caps of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Observational data provide evidence of increased melting, thinning and contour recession due to recent climate warming in the Arctic. The duration of...