Ocean freshwater fluxes through the Canadian archipelago (CAT)

• Main Authors: Humfrey Melling, Andreas Münchow, Helen Johnson, Jim Hamilton, Kelly Falkner, Kumiko Azetzu-Scott, Michelle Johnston, Paul Myers, Simon Prinsenberg
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Salinity; Barrow Strait; Zooplankton; Northwest Passage; Fluxes; Sea level; Ice thickness; Temperature; SAR; Ice; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Baffin Bay; Cardigan Strait; Hans Island; Lancaster Sound; Nares; Baffin; Canadian Archipelago; Nares strait; Northwest passage; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://search.dataone.org/view/sha256:5e6b0e39ac5d4a0807b625c57a2bbf8fb2965aab5df7ff539aadccaa294e70d5

The objectives of the CAT study are to acquire the first complete observations of Canadian Arctic through-flow and to understand why they occur and how they may change as climate changes. Long term measurements of ocean current and ice drift can be acquired only using by autonomous sub-sea instrumen...