Thin ice, deep snow and surface flooding in Kotzebue Sound: landfast ice mass balance during two anomalously warm winters and implications for marine mammals and subsistence hunting

Thin ice, deep snow and surface flooding in Kotzebue Sound: landfast ice mass balance during two anomalously warm winters and implications for marine mammals and subsistence hunting

The inaugural data from the first systematic program of sea-ice observations in Kotzebue Sound, Alaska, in 2018 coincided with the first winter in living memory when the Sound was not choked with ice. The following winter of 2018–19 was even warmer and characterized by even less ice. Here we discuss...

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Main Authors: Andrew R. Mahoney, Kate E. Turner, Donna D. W. Hauser, Nathan J. M. Laxague, Jessica M. Lindsay, Alex V. Whiting, Carson R. Witte, John Goodwin, Cyrus Harris, Robert J. Schaeffer, Roswell Schaeffer, Sarah Betcher, Ajit Subramaniam, Christopher J. Zappa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2021-12-01
Series:Journal of Glaciology
Subjects:
Ice thickness measurements
sea ice
sea-ice growth and decay
sea-ice modeling
snow/ice surface processes
Online Access:https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0022143021000496/type/journal_article

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