Ice and Ocean Mooring Data Statistics from Barrow Strait, the Central Section of the NW Passage in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago

• Main Authors: Simon Prinsenberg, Roger Pettipas
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Archipelago; NW Passage; ice velocities; ocean velocities and ice drafts; Arctic; Barrow Strait; Bedford; Canadian Arctic Archipelago; Arctic Archipelago
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.621.7819; http://www2.mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/science/ocean/seaice/Publications/prins28.pdf

Since August 1998, personnel from the Bedford Institute of Oceanography have deployed year-long moorings in Barrow Strait of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago (CAA) to monitor the seasonal and inter-annual variabilities of ocean and pack ice parameters. Data from these moorings provide statistics on i...