REPORT OF SEVERE ICE CONDITIONS IN MELVILLE BUGT, SUMMER 1964

• Main Authors: Potocsky, G., Kniskern,F.
• Other Authors: NAVAL OCEANOGRAPHIC OFFICE WASHINGTON D C OCEANOGRAPHIC PREDICTION DIV
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1966
• Subjects: Physical and Dynamic Oceanography; Snow; Ice and Permafrost; (*ICE; ARCTIC REGIONS); CLIMATE; METEOROLOGY; NAVIGATION CHARTS; NAVAL VESSELS; MARINE TRANSPORTATION; ARCTIC OCEAN; BAFFIN BAY; LABRADOR SEA; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Baffin Bay; Melville Bugt; Baffin; Ice; Labrador Sea; Melville bugt; permafrost
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0634531; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0634531

Anomalous (severe) ice conditions occurred during summer 1964 in Melville Bugt. Factors producing the variation are analyzed in order to determine whether the anomaly should have been predicted. Based on historical conditions, however, the ice prediction had been made as accurately as possible. The...