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

• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Canadian Watershed Information Network (CanWIN) 2023
• Subjects: Salinity; Meteorological; Landfast ice; Snow; Air temperature; Wind speed; Albedo; CTD profiles; Sea ice; Sea ice melt; Arctic; Canada; Dease Strait; Nunavut; albedo
• Online Access: https://search.dataone.org/view/sha256:4014c1eb71367908865cb6e3d8f2dc53848f5edfe9ace8037ecc64caf3aea8f8

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...