Iceberg Production and Characteristics at the Termini of Tidewater Glaciers around the Prince of Wales Icefield, Ellesmere Island

• Main Author: Dalton, Abigail
• Other Authors: Copland, Luke
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa 2017
• Subjects: Icebergs; Glacier Dynamics; Remote Sensing; Arctic; Canadian Arctic Archipelago; Ellesmere Island; Prince of Wales Icefield; Arctic Archipelago; Iceberg*; Sea ice; Tidewater
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10393/36992; https://doi.org/10.20381/ruor-21264

Since the 1960s, warming air and sea surface temperatures have led to decreasing sea ice extent and longer periods of open water in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago (CAA). Recent and rapid changes have also been observed in the ice discharge patterns of glaciers in this region. For example, Trinity a...