Multi-Decadal Variability of Polynya Characteristics and Ice Production in the North Water Polynya by Means of Passive Microwave and Thermal Infrared Satellite Imagery

• Published in: Remote Sensing
• Main Authors: Andreas Preußer, Günther Heinemann, Sascha Willmes, Stephan Paul
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2015
• Subjects: MODIS; polynya; sea ice; passive microwave; Baffin Bay; Nares Strait; ice bridge; Canada; Ellesmere Island; Greenland; Nares; Baffin; Nares strait; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs71215807

The North Water (NOW) Polynya is a regularly-forming area of open-water and thin-ice, located between northwestern Greenland and Ellesmere Island (Canada) at the northern tip of Baffin Bay. Due to its large spatial extent, it is of high importance for a variety of physical and biological processes,...