A Winter Scientific Reconnaissance of the North Water

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Sater, John E.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1972
• Subjects: Icebreaking; Ice pressure; Ice-structure interaction; Louis S. St. Laurent (Ship); Manhattan (Ship); Marine transportation; Pressure ridges; Sea ice; Winds; Baffin Bay-Davis Strait; Arctic; Baffin Bay; Greenland; Smith Sound; Baffin; Davis Strait; Smith sound
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/66006

Since 1966 the Institute's Baffin Bay-North Water Project has been investigating the causes and effects of the large semi-permanent polynya in northern Baffin Bay and Smith Sound. Summaries of existing data have been made by Project personnel and detailed studies have been conducted during the...