The effects of ice arch formation on currents in Nares Strait during the springs of 2008 and 2009

• Main Author: Einolf, Allison E
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@Macalester College 2013
• Subjects: physical oceanography; Arctic; high latitudes; ice arch; climate change; oceanography; Fluid Dynamics; Baffin Bay; Ellesmere Island; Greenland; Nares; Baffin; Climate change; Nares strait; North Atlantic; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/physics_honors/14; https://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1013&context=physics_honors

In Nares Strait between Greenland and Ellesmere Island, ice arches hold back ice during winter and spring, preventing sea ice flux into Baffin Bay and freshwater flux (in the form of ice) into the North Atlantic. Freshwater flux influences the formation of deep water and affects the Meridional Overt...