Sea-ice thickness on the northern Canadian polar shelf: A second look after 40 years

• Main Author: Melling, Humfrey
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Penny Strait; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2021-393; https://tc.copernicus.org/preprints/tc-2021-393/

This paper presents a systematic record of multi-year sea-ice thickness on the northern Canadian polar shelf, acquired during the winter of 2009–10. The data were acquired by submerged sonar positioned within Penny Strait where they measured floes drifting south from the notional “last ice area”. Ic...