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Melting sea ice Although ice will always be present in the Arctic in winter, global warming induces a steady decline of the extent of sea ice and a rapid decrease in the share of multi-year ice, giving way to younger, thinner sea ice and giving credit to modelled scenarios of ice-free summers during...
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ftdatacite:10.11575/sppp.v15i1.72626 2023-08-27T04:07:06+02:00 Canadian Arctic Marine Transportation Issues, Opportunities and Challenges ... Lasserre, Frédéric Bartenstein, Kristin 2022 https://dx.doi.org/10.11575/sppp.v15i1.72626 https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/sppp/article/view/72626 en eng The School of Public Policy Publications https://dx.doi.org/10.11575/sppp.v15i1 Text article-journal Article ScholarlyArticle 2022 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.11575/sppp.v15i1.7262610.11575/sppp.v15i1 2023-08-07T14:24:23Z Melting sea ice Although ice will always be present in the Arctic in winter, global warming induces a steady decline of the extent of sea ice and a rapid decrease in the share of multi-year ice, giving way to younger, thinner sea ice and giving credit to modelled scenarios of ice-free summers during the 21st century. However, ice remains a hazard and an impediment to navigation. Thinner and more fragmented ice moves faster and in patterns that are difficult to predict. It also seems more prone to building compression ridges. Ice arches preventing hard multi-year ice of the Arctic Ocean basin from penetrating into the Canadian Archipelago are weakening. In Baffin Bay, accelerated iceberg calving from Greenland is likely to increase the number of growlers, which pose a serious risk for navigation. From this emerges a nuanced picture of shipping conditions in the Canadian Arctic. Expanding commercial shipping Shipping in the Canadian Arctic is mainly driven by fishing, mining activities and community resupply, ... : The School of Public Policy Publications, Vol. 15 No. 1 (2022) ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Ocean Baffin Bay Baffin Bay Baffin Canadian Archipelago Global warming Greenland Iceberg* Sea ice DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Arctic Arctic Ocean Baffin Bay Greenland |
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Melting sea ice Although ice will always be present in the Arctic in winter, global warming induces a steady decline of the extent of sea ice and a rapid decrease in the share of multi-year ice, giving way to younger, thinner sea ice and giving credit to modelled scenarios of ice-free summers during the 21st century. However, ice remains a hazard and an impediment to navigation. Thinner and more fragmented ice moves faster and in patterns that are difficult to predict. It also seems more prone to building compression ridges. Ice arches preventing hard multi-year ice of the Arctic Ocean basin from penetrating into the Canadian Archipelago are weakening. In Baffin Bay, accelerated iceberg calving from Greenland is likely to increase the number of growlers, which pose a serious risk for navigation. From this emerges a nuanced picture of shipping conditions in the Canadian Arctic. Expanding commercial shipping Shipping in the Canadian Arctic is mainly driven by fishing, mining activities and community resupply, ... : The School of Public Policy Publications, Vol. 15 No. 1 (2022) ... |
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