Internal Structure and Environmental Significance of a Perennial Snowbank, Melville Island, N.W.T.

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: Lewkowicz, Antoni G., Harry, David G.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1991
• Subjects: Ablation; Accumulation; Climate change; Formation; Ice; Meteorology; Snow; Snowmelt; Snowpatches; Temperature; Thickness; Tritium; Ross Point (74 55 N; 107 15 W); Nunavut; Ross Point; Arctic; permafrost; Melville Island
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64575

A perennial snowbank located in the continuous permafrost zone was cored to obtain details of its internal structure and history. In spring the snowbank is up to 10 m thick and composed of deep snow accumulated during the previous winter, overlying ice developed by basal ice accretion over many year...