Terrestrial Snowmelt as a Precursor to Landfast Sea Ice Break-up in Hudson Bay and James Bay

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Gupta, Kaushik [1 ]
Ehn, Jens K. [1 ]
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[1] Univ Manitoba, CEOS, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
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CLIMATE-CHANGE IMPACTS; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; INUIT VULNERABILITY; RIVER DISCHARGE; BEAUFORT SHELF; TRENDS; THICKNESS; BARROW; ALASKA; COVER;
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10.1080/07038992.2023.2289022
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TP7 [遥感技术];
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081102 ; 0816 ; 081602 ; 083002 ; 1404 ;
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Numerous studies have been conducted to enhance our understanding of how climate change impacts landfast ice and its break-up in spring or summer. Yet, predictions of break-up timing have proven elusive illusive, and dependent on multiple environmental drivers. In this study, we investigate whether/to what extent snow melt on land adjacent to the coast can serve as a precursor to landfast ice break-up. For the study, we used MODIS snowmelt timing products to explore the pattern of snowmelt across the study area. This was compared against landfast ice break-up dates generated mainly from CIS ice-chart, across the Hudson Bay and James Bay coast. Snowmelt timings recorded across the study area followed the same latitudinal gradient as the landfast ice break-up dates, with almost a 50-day difference between the south and the north snowmelt and ice break-up timings. The data shows that the timing of landfast ice break-up across the Hudson Bay and James Bay region showed significantly stronger correlations with the timing of terrestrial snowmelt, as compared to air temperature thresholds, with an average 17-day gap observed between snowmelt to landfast ice break-up. Based on the observations, we believe snowmelt can be a reliable precursor to landfast ice break-up. De nombreuses etudes ont ete menees pour mieux comprendre l'impact des changements climatiques sur la banquise cotiere et sa rupture au printemps ou en ete. Pourtant, les predictions du moment de la rupture se sont averees insaisissables, illusoires et dependantes de multiples facteurs environnementaux. Dans cette etude, nous cherchons a savoir si, et dans quelle mesure, la fonte des neiges sur les terres adjacentes a la cote peut servir de precurseur a la rupture de la banquise cotiere. Pour l'etude, nous avons utilise les dates de la fonte des neiges derivees des produits MODIS pour explorer le schema de la fonte des neiges dans la zone d'etude. Ces donnees ont ete comparees aux dates de rupture de la banquise cotiere generees principalement a partir de la carte des glaces du SCG, sur la cote de la baie d'Hudson et de la baie James. Les periodes de fonte des neiges enregistrees dans la zone d'etude ont suivi le meme gradient latitudinal que les dates de rupture de la banquise cotiere, avec une difference de pres de 50 jours entre les dates de fonte des neiges et de rupture au sud et au nord. Des correlations significativement plus fortes ont ete observees entre le moment de la rupture de la banquise cotiere de la baie d'Hudson et de la baie James et le moment de la fonte des neiges terrestres, par rapport a des seuils de temperature de l'air, avec un ecart moyen de 17 jours observe entre la fonte des neiges et la rupture de la banquise cotiere. D'apres ces observations, nous croyons que la fonte des neiges peut etre un precurseur fiable de la rupture de la banquise cotiere.
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