Arctic Archives - CMOS BULLETIN SCMO

The possible role of icebergs in the origin of the North Atlantic Cold Blob

Written on June 27, 2025.

– By David Allan and Richard Allan – Many people with an interest in ocean science will have come across the Cold Blob or ‘warming hole’, a region between the main North Atlantic...

Documenting Environmental Change in Nunatsiavut through Inuit Knowledge: The Nunatsiavut Sea Ice Observer Program

Written on January 26, 2025.

– By Emma Harrison – “On this date in 1988, I crossed over Lake Melville on a snowmobile. I hope I’m totally wrong, but all indications are we’re heading into another late season.” ...

CMOS Congress Outstanding Presentations

Written on August 26, 2024.

On June 3-6, 2024, the 58th annual Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society Congress was held virtually with help from the Winnipeg Centre and the BC Interior-Yukon Centre. The theme of...

Ice coverage, stratification and mixing in the Kitikmeot Sea of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago

Written on January 29, 2024.

– By Chengzhu Xu and Qi Zhou – Figure 1: (a) Canadian Arctic Archipelago. (b) Kitikmeot Sea, which corresponds to the region enclosed by the red box in Panel (a). The red line segments...

Does anthropogenic noise impact Arctic whales’ acoustics?

Written on July 6, 2023.

– By Kimberly Franklin – Figure 1. Main research vessel, M/V Kiviuq I, in Baffin Bay. More opportunities for human activities such as shipping, fishing, and military exercises are...

Too far from shore—the fate of the Franklin expedition

Written on March 27, 2023.

– By Robert W. Park and Douglas R. Stenton – Background The basic details are well-known: in May of 1845 two Royal Navy ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, departed Great Britain under...

Adaptation planning: An interdisciplinary approach to climate change risk reduction

Written on February 28, 2023.

– By Sarah Kehler, S. Jeff Birchall- Climate change presents a complex and unprecedented problem. As temperatures rise, the global climate is becoming increasingly unstable. Climate...

Will Greenland be really ‘Green’ after losing its ice mass?

Written on January 30, 2023.

-By Xander Wang, Pelin Kinay, Aminur Shah, and Quan Dau- Many people believe that, due to global warming, a longstanding myth about Greenland might be the reality – a ‘green’ land, resembling its...

Monitoring climate change with the support of local communities in the Northwest Territories

Written on July 26, 2022.

– By Andy Vicente-Luis, Emma Riley, Elyn Humphreys, Philip Marsh, William Quinton, Oliver Sonnentag – Arctic-boreal regions are warming rapidly, with increases in surface air temperatures over...