Canadian Lake ice Database
The first version of CID contains in situ observations from 757 sites distributed across Canada, which were originally kept on digital or paper records at the Meteorological Service of Canada Headquarters and the Canadian Ice Service (CIS). The CID holds 63,546 records covering the period from ice s...
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ftdatacite:10.21963/1821 2023-05-15T18:17:48+02:00 Canadian Lake ice Database Centre D'études Nordiques 2009 https://dx.doi.org/10.21963/1821 https://www.polardata.ca/pdcsearch/?doi_id=1821 en eng Canadian Cryospheric Information Network Public Database transdisciplinary Freeze-up Ice break-up Lake River Sea ice Canadian Cryospheric Information Network dataset Dataset 2009 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.21963/1821 2021-11-05T12:55:41Z The first version of CID contains in situ observations from 757 sites distributed across Canada, which were originally kept on digital or paper records at the Meteorological Service of Canada Headquarters and the Canadian Ice Service (CIS). The CID holds 63,546 records covering the period from ice season 1822-23 to 2000-01. An analysis of the database allows one to trace the temporal evolution of the ice networks. The freeze-up/break-up network of 2000-01 only represents 4% of what it was in 1985-86. A drastic decline of the ice thickness and the snow on ice network is also observable. In 1997-98, it represented only 10% of the network that existed in 1984-85. The major budget cuts in Canadian government agencies during the late 1980s and the 1990s offer the most plausible explanation for the drastic decline in the ice observation networks. Weekly ice coverage determination on large lakes from satellite imagery by the CIS and the national volunteer ice monitoring program, IceWatch, may provide a means of reviving, at least, the freeze-up/break-up network. (Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.) : Purpose: The Canadian government has been compiling various observations on freshwater and coastal sea ice conditions for many years. However, the records are not easily accessible and are dispersed within different government departments. Given this, a major effort was undertaken in order to gather all available observations into a common database: the Canadian Ice Database (CID). This database will respond to the needs for climate monitoring in Canada, the validation and improvement of numerical ice models and the development of new remote-sensing methods. Indeed, several studies have shown that freshwater ice and sea ice are good proxy indicators of climate variability and change. : Summary: Not Applicable Dataset Sea ice DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Canada |
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The first version of CID contains in situ observations from 757 sites distributed across Canada, which were originally kept on digital or paper records at the Meteorological Service of Canada Headquarters and the Canadian Ice Service (CIS). The CID holds 63,546 records covering the period from ice season 1822-23 to 2000-01. An analysis of the database allows one to trace the temporal evolution of the ice networks. The freeze-up/break-up network of 2000-01 only represents 4% of what it was in 1985-86. A drastic decline of the ice thickness and the snow on ice network is also observable. In 1997-98, it represented only 10% of the network that existed in 1984-85. The major budget cuts in Canadian government agencies during the late 1980s and the 1990s offer the most plausible explanation for the drastic decline in the ice observation networks. Weekly ice coverage determination on large lakes from satellite imagery by the CIS and the national volunteer ice monitoring program, IceWatch, may provide a means of reviving, at least, the freeze-up/break-up network. (Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.) : Purpose: The Canadian government has been compiling various observations on freshwater and coastal sea ice conditions for many years. However, the records are not easily accessible and are dispersed within different government departments. Given this, a major effort was undertaken in order to gather all available observations into a common database: the Canadian Ice Database (CID). This database will respond to the needs for climate monitoring in Canada, the validation and improvement of numerical ice models and the development of new remote-sensing methods. Indeed, several studies have shown that freshwater ice and sea ice are good proxy indicators of climate variability and change. : Summary: Not Applicable |
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