Impacts of historical and projected climate changes on ice surfaces of the Tibbitt to Contwoyto Winter Road, Northwest Territories, Canada

• Main Author: Zell, Erika
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Waterloo 2014
• Subjects: Geography; Arctic; Nunavut; Northwest Territories; Yellowknife; Canada; Contwoyto Lake; Ice; permafrost
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10012/8925

Seasonal ice and winter roads are a historically important part of the Canadian arctic transportation network. Constructed over frozen lakes, rivers, permafrost zones, and seasonally frozen ground, the roads service rural and aboriginal communities and resource extraction projects which are otherwis...