Lancaster Sound Sea Ice Studies

Organization

Coastal Ocean Science

Bedford Institute of Oceanography

Fisheries and Ocean Canada

Principal contact

Dr. Simon Prinsenberg

Project web site

http://www2.mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/science/ocean/seaice/archipel_e.html

Methodology

Upward Looking Sonar on bottom anchored moorings

Location

Canadian Arctic Archipelago: Lancaster Sound

Time interval

2003-2007

Data processing notes

ULS instrument is the ASL IPS-4. Drafts were processed with ASL software.

Number of samples

3.47682e+07 point samples, 36 monthly averages

Documentation

 

Point data

ftp://starfish.mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/pub/ocean/seaice/Data_Lancaster/ULS/

Citations

Prinsenberg, S. J. and R. Pettipas. 2008b "Ice and ocean mooring data statistics from Barrow Strait, the central section of the NW Passage in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago". Int. J. Offshore Pol. Eng., 18(4): 277-281. pdf file

Prinsenberg, S. J., J. Hamilton, I. Peterson, and R. Pettipas. 2008 "Observing and interpreting the seasonal variability of the oceanographic fluxes passing through Lancaster Sound of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago". In J. Nihoul and Prof. Andrey Kostianoy eds. Influence of climate change on the changing Arctic and Sub-Arctic conditions, Springer Verlag, pp. 119-136. pdf file

Pettipas, R., J. Hamilton, and S. Prinsenberg. 2008. Moored current meter and CTD observations from Barrow Strait, 2003-2004. Can. Data Rep. Hydrogr. Ocean Sci. 173 : vii + 134 p. pdf file

 

Location of the mooring site in Lancaster Sound

map of the location of the BIO Lancaster Sound mooring

 

 

These are plots of the point measurements from each mooring showing there are periods when the variability in the draft is very low, likely indicating the ice is nearly stationary (click on the image to see a blow-up).

Lancaster Souind point measurements

 

Box plots for each of the mooring sites show the median (black) and the 5th, 25th, 75th, and 95th percentile values for each month. The colors show the month of the year.