Landfast ice properties over the Beaufort Sea region in 2000-2019 from MODIS and Canadian Ice Service data

• Main Authors: Trishchenko, Alexander P., Kostylev, Vladimir, Luo, Yi, Ungureanu, Calin, Whalen, Dustin, Li, Junhua
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: University of Toronto 2021
• Subjects: Arctic; Canada; Cape Bathurst; Herschel Island; Mackenzie Bay; Barter Island; Beaufort Sea; Richards Island; Alaska
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1807/109893; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/abs/10.1139/cjes-2021-0011

Two decades (2000-2019) of the landfast ice properties in the Beaufort Sea region in the Canadian Arctic were analyzed at 250-m spatial resolution from two sources: 1) monthly maps derived at the Canada Centre for Remote Sensing from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer clear-sky satellite image composites; 2) Canadian Ice Service charts. Detailed comparisons have been conducted for the landfast ice spatial extent, the water depth at and the distance to the outer seaward edge from the coast in four sub-regions: 1) Alaska coast; 2) Barter Island to Herschel Island; 3) Mackenzie Bay; 4) Richards Island to Cape Bathurst. The results from both sources demonstrate good agreement. The average spatial extent for the entire region over the April-June period is 48.5 (5.0)10 The accepted manuscript in pdf format is listed with the files at the bottom of this page. The presentation of the authors' names and (or) special characters in the title of the manuscript may differ slightly between what is listed on this page and what is listed in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript; that in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript is what was submitted by the author.