An Unusual Polynya in an Arctic Fjord

• Main Authors: Sadler, H. E., Serson, H. V.
• Other Authors: Freeland, Howard J., Farmer, David M., Levings, Colin D.
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: Springer 1980
• Subjects: Arctic; Baffin Island; Cambridge Fiord; Dunbar; Pond Inlet; Sadler; Baffin; inuit
• Online Access: https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/30551/; https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/30551/1/Sadler.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3105-6_23

M. Dunbar (1957) called attention to the existence of a small circular polynya about 50 m in diameter in Cambridge Fiord in northern Baffin Island for which there was no obvious explanation. Other small polynyas are known in arctic fjords which are usually the result of turbulent mixing in areas of...