The Effect of Sea Ice on Tidal Propagation in the Kitikmeot Sea, Canadian Arctic Archipelago

• Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
• Main Authors: Rotermund, Lina M., Williams, William J., Klymak, Jody M., Wu, Yongsheng, Scharien, Randall K., Haas, Christian
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Archipelago; Canadian Arctic Archipelago; Coronation Gulf; Kitikmeot; Queen Maud Gulf; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/55574/; https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JC016786; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.792de119-c656-4a5f-acf0-f5a3e69111db

The tides in the Kitikmeot Sea, in the southern Canadian Arctic Archipelago, are found to be heavily influenced by seasonal sea-ice formation and blocking in a strait. Data from a moored current profiler in Dease Strait exhibit strong tidal damping during wintertime seasonal sea-ice cover, with 50%–...