Changes in Multiyear Landfast Sea Ice in the Northern Canadian Arctic Archipelago

• Main Author: Pope, Sierra Grace
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Ottawa (Canada) 2010
• Subjects: Physical Geography; Climate Change; Physical Oceanography; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Canadian Arctic Archipelago; Ellesmere Island; Nansen Sound; Sverdrup Channel; Yelverton Bay; Yelverton Inlet; Arctic Archipelago; Climate change; Ice Shelf; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10393/28765; https://doi.org/10.20381/ruor-13710

For most of the 20th century, multiyear landfast sea ice (MLSI) existed in semi-permanent plugs across Nansen Sound and Sverdrup Channel and formed an incipient ice shelf in Yelverton Bay, Ellesmere Island in the northern CAA. Both plugs broke in 1962 and 1998, and several breakups within the last d...