Ice, Open Water, and Winter Climate in the Eastern Arctic of North America: Part I

Résumé

Part 1. Hare, F.K. Distribution of winter temperature over the eastern Arctic and sub-Arctic. From climatic data for Canadian and Greenland Arctic, 1940-48, the author presents new air temperature maps, and evidence of the freezing over of Hudson Bay after January; discusses the open water bodies as "gulf of warmth" in Davies Strait-Baffin Bay, Hudson Strait and Hudson Bay.