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7 - Sea ice

from Part II - The marine cryosphere

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 April 2022

Roger G. Barry
Affiliation:
University of Colorado Boulder
Thian Yew Gan
Affiliation:
University of Alberta
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The earliest account of sea ice is due to Pytheas, a Greek sailor who encountered it southeast of Iceland in 325 BC (Sturm and Massom, 2010). Later encounters were made by Celtic monks in the northwest North Atlantic in AD 550 and 800 (Weeks, 1998). In the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, whalers and sealers operated in Arctic waters of the North Atlantic, Barents Sea, and Greenland Sea and Scoresby (1820), a whaling captain, published a notable book on ice and ocean conditions in the Greenland Sea.

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The Global Cryosphere
Past, Present, and Future
, pp. 277 - 343
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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  • Sea ice
  • Roger G. Barry, University of Colorado Boulder, Thian Yew Gan, University of Alberta
  • Book: The Global Cryosphere
  • Online publication: 15 April 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108767262.009
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  • Roger G. Barry, University of Colorado Boulder, Thian Yew Gan, University of Alberta
  • Book: The Global Cryosphere
  • Online publication: 15 April 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108767262.009
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  • Sea ice
  • Roger G. Barry, University of Colorado Boulder, Thian Yew Gan, University of Alberta
  • Book: The Global Cryosphere
  • Online publication: 15 April 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108767262.009
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