Title :
Shipping in the Canadian Arctic: other possible climate change scenarios
Author :
Wilson, K.J. ; Falkingham, J. ; Melling, H. ; De Abreu, R.
Author_Institution :
Canadian Ice Service, Meteorol. Service of Canada, Ottawa, Ont., Canada
Abstract :
We review the results of several studies of significance to the question of future shipping conditions the Canada´s Northwest Passage. As shown, these studies raise significant questions around the estimation of the impacts of predicted lighter ice seasons from Global Climate Models and introduce further plausible scenarios that should be considered as well when planning adaptation strategies for marine transportation in the Canadian Arctic.
Keywords :
climatology; oceanographic regions; sea ice; ships; transportation; Canada Northwest Passage; Canadian Arctic shipping; Global Climate Models; adaptation strategy; climate change scenario; lighter ice seasons; marine transportation; shipping conditions; Aquaculture; Arctic; Atmospheric modeling; Computational Intelligence Society; Marine transportation; Meteorology; Oceans; Predictive models; Sea ice; Strategic planning;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2004. IGARSS '04. Proceedings. 2004 IEEE International
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8742-2
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2004.1370699