Coupled sea ice and climate variability from modern observations and proxy reconstructions

• Main Author: Kinnard, Christophe
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Ottawa (Canada) 2009
• Subjects: Physical Geography; Climate Change; Physical Oceanography; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Baffin Bay; Devon Ice Cap; Ellesmere Island; Nares; Baffin; Climate change; Ice cap; ice core; Nares strait; North Atlantic; North Atlantic oscillation; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10393/29767; https://doi.org/10.20381/ruor-13132

Coupled climate and sea ice variability in the Arctic was investigated using a combination of modern, historical and proxy observations. In the Canadian Arctic, operational sea ice charts were homogenized into a spatially and temporally consistent gridded dataset. A complete climatic analysis of thi...