The Energetics of Extensive Melt Water Flooding of Level First-Year Sea Ice in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, Canada

• Main Author: Diaz, Aura
• Other Authors: Ehn, Jens (Environment and Geography) Papakyriakou, Tim (Environment and Geography), Hanesiak, John (Environment and Geography) Rysgaard, Soren (Geological Science) Galley, Ryan (Geological Science)
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Sea ice; Energy flux; Superimposed and interposed ice; Seasonal progression; Canadian Arctic; Arctic; Cambridge Bay; Canada; Dease Strait; Nunavut; albedo
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1993/32746

During the spring-to-summer transition, the snow cover on Arctic sea ice melts and meltwater pools on the surface to form distinct ponds. In Dease Strait (Nunavut), June 2014, the transition from a cold pre-melt state to >95% flooded sea ice surface was particularly dramatic as the level landfast...