Sea ice thickness in the Eastern Canadian Arctic: Hudson Bay Complex & Baffin Bay

• Published in: Remote Sensing of Environment
• Main Authors: Landy, Jack, Ehn, Jens, Babb, David, Thériault, Nathalie, Barber, David
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Inc. 2020
• Subjects: sea ice thickness; Eastern Canadian Arctic; ICESat; Cryosat-2; sea ice deformation; ocean freshwater budget; Arctic; Baffin Bay; Canada; Foxe Basin; Hudson; Hudson Bay; ArcticNet; Baffin; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1993/34871; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2017.08.019

Past observations of sea ice thickness in the Eastern Canadian Arctic (ECA) have generally been restricted to drill-hole measurements at a few local sites on landfast ice. Here we use data from the laser altimeter ICESat and the radar altimeter Cryosat-2 to present a 14-year record (2003–2016) of hi...