Temporal and Spatial Evolution of Seasonal Sea Ice of Arctic Bay, Nunavut

• Published in: Coasts
• Main Authors: Slawomir Kowal, William A. Gough, Kenneth Butler
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2023
• Subjects: sea ice; Arctic Bay; times series analysis; spatial analysis; break-up; freeze-up; ice-free period; climate change; Arctic; Nunavut; Arctic bay; Climate change; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/coasts3020007

The temporal and spatial variation in seasonal sea ice in Arctic Bay, Nunavut, are examined using time series and spatial clustering analyses. For the period of 1971 to 2018, a time series of sea ice break-up, and freeze-up, dates and ice-free season length at nine grid points are generated from sea...