The Energetics of Extensive Melt Water Flooding of Level Arctic Sea Ice

• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: Salinity; Landfast ice; Snow; Meteorological; Air temperature; Wind speed; CTD profiles; Albedo; Sea ice; Sea ice melt; Arctic; Nunavut; Canada; Dease Strait; albedo
• Online Access: https://search.dataone.org/view/sha256:15d60ae6a02496d5770e876feb490c55a96bf4cda60c8eb1d0d82af7e45cc58c

During the spring-to-summer transition, the snow cover on Arctic sea ice melts and meltwater pools on the surface to form melt ponds; however, the timing and extent of the ponding varies between years. In Dease Strait (Nunavut), this transition was particularly dramatic in 2014 when on 18 June meltw...