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Manual Recovery of a Sea Ice Based Ocean Profiler.
(2019)
Ice-tethered ocean profiling systems are an essential tool for the year-round observation
of physical and biogeochemical properties of the Arctic Ocean. Despite being considered
expendable equipment due to the challenging ...
Oil spill response capabilities and technologies for ice-covered Arctic marine waters: a review of recent developments and established practices.
(2017)
Renewed political and commercial interest in the resources of the Arctic, the reduction in the extent and thickness of sea ice, and the recent failings that led to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, have prompted industry ...
Sea-Ice Nomenclature: snapshot of the WMO Sea Ice Nomenclature (WMO No. 259, Volume 1 – Terminology and Codes, Volume II – Illustrated Glossary and III – International System of Sea-Ice Symbols)
(WMO-JCOMM, Geneva, Switzerland, 2014)
This document provides snapshot of the WMO Sea Ice Nomenclature (WMO No. 259, Volume 1 – Terminology and Codes, Volume II – Illustrated Glossary and III – International System of Sea-Ice Symbols) by March 2014 (5th Session ...
Sea-ice information services in the world. Edition 2010. [SUPERSEDED by http://hdl.handle.net/11329/394]
(World Meteorological Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, 2010)
The WMO publication ‘Sea Ice Information Services in the World’ (WMO No. 574) is intended to provide to mariners
and other users the latest snapshot of the sea ice services available world-wide, effectively extending the ...
Electronic Chart Systems Ice Objects Catalogue Version 5.2, 2014 edition
(WMO/JCOMM Expert Team on Sea Ice, Geneva, Switzerland, 2014)
Electronic Navigation Charts (ENC) and Electronic Chart Display and Information Systems (ECDIS) are becoming widely available on ships navigating in icy waters and it is necessary to provide ice data in a form that can be ...
Sea-Ice Information Services in the World. Edition 2017.
(World Meteorological Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, 2017)
The 2017 update of the document reflects new types of sea ice and icebergs information, forms of collaboration and delivery of the products through August 2017. Areas that have seen substantial progress over the last seven ...
Ice Chart Colour Code Standard, Version 1.0, 2014.
(World Meteorological Organization & Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, Geneva, Switzerland, 2014)
This document describes two separate colour codes for use on ice charts: the first one based on total concentration (CT) intended for use when the stage of development is relatively uniform but concentration is highly ...
Traditional Ecological Knowledge of Polar Bears in the Northern Eeyou Marine Region, Quebec, Canada.
(2018)
Polar bears are important socio-cultural symbols in the communities of the Eeyou Marine Region (EMR) in northwestern Quebec, Canada. Members of the Cree communities in this region are generally not active polar bear hunters, ...
Impacts of Oil Spills on Arctic Marine Ecosystems: A Quantitative and Probabilistic Risk Assessment Perspective.
(2020)
Oil spills resulting from maritime accidents pose a poorly understood risk to the Arctic environment. We propose a novel probabilistic method to quantitatively assess these risks. Our method accounts for spatiotemporally ...
Trends in Winter Light Environment Over the Arctic Ocean: A Perspective From Two Decades of Ocean Color Data.
(2020)
The last few decades have seen a decrease in Arctic ice cover, leading to changes in the structure and function of marine ecosystems. Yet sustained long-term observations of the marine environment are difficult to acquire. ...