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; Landfast ice; Meteorological; Snow; 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:b598a33e24892c0bb475d319ad682487f9ff361ed688454075ec4cbb2060711f

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...