Unusually thick freshwater ice and its impacts on aquatic resources in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPR-A) during the winter of 2020–2021

• Published in: Arctic Science
• Main Authors: Christopher D. Arp, Melanie Engram, Allen C. Bondurant, Katie A. Drew
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; French
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 2022
• Subjects: freshwater ice; lakes; rivers; aquatic habitat; winter climate; envir; geo; Arctic; Ice Lakes; Alaska
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1139/as-2022-0027; https://doaj.org/article/edb6e2093f1d46dea752f80f6cdd20e5

Despite a long-term thinning trend in freshwater ice in northern Alaska, cold low-snow cover winters can still emerge to grow thick ice. In 2021, we observed abnormally thick ice by winter's end on lakes and rivers throughout the Fish Creek Watershed in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska....