Articles | Volume 13, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-1025-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-1025-2019
Research article
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29 Mar 2019
Research article |  | 29 Mar 2019

Baffin Bay sea ice inflow and outflow: 1978–1979 to 2016–2017

Haibo Bi, Zehua Zhang, Yunhe Wang, Xiuli Xu, Yu Liang, Jue Huang, Yilin Liu, and Min Fu

Data sets

Polar Pathfinder Daily 25 km EASE-Grid Sea Ice Motion Vectors, Version 4 M. Tschudi, W. N. Meier, J. S. Stewart, C. Fowler, and J. Maslanik https://doi.org/10.5067/INAWUWO7QH7B

Bootstrap Sea Ice Concentrations from Nimbus-7 SMMR and DMSP SSM/I-SSMIS, Version 3 J. C. Comiso https://doi.org/10.5067/7Q8HCCWS4I0R

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Short summary
Baffin Bay serves as a huge reservoir of sea ice which provides solid freshwater sources for the seas downstream. Based on satellite observations, significant increasing trends are found for the annual sea ice area flux through the three gates. These trends are chiefly related to the increasing ice motion which is associated with thinner ice owing to the warmer climate (i.e., higher surface air temperature and shortened freezing period) and increased air and water drag coefficients.