Annual sea-ice metrics calculated for the combined Gulf of St. Lawrence and Scotian Shelf area.

Ice_Annual_Broadscale

Format

A dataframe

area

Area name where data was collected

year

The year in which data was collected

ice_area

Surface area covered by sea-ice in km^2

ice_volume

Volume of sea-ice in km^3

ice_duration

Average length of sea-ice occurrence in days

ice_first_day

Average start day of sea-ice occurrence (day of year)

ice_last_day

Average end day of sea-ice occurrence (day of year)

Details

The data can be cited as follows: Galbraith, P.S. 2020. Personal communication.

Note

time_scale

Annual

regional_scale

Broadscale

category

physical, sea-ice