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Some of this ice is trapped for decades as multi-year land-fast ice [30].
Marine Arctic 2009
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The remobilization of land-fast ice in summer is poorly understood.
Marine Arctic 2009
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There are a few hundred meters of land-fast ice along all arctic coastlines in winter.
Marine Arctic 2009
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Interannual variability in the thickness of coastal land-fast ice is dominated by changes in winter snow accumulation, not air temperature.
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Many potential impacts of climate change will be mediated through land-fast ice.
Marine Arctic 2009
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Weekly records of land-fast ice thickness obtained from drilling are available for coastal locations around the Arctic (Canada and Russia) for the 1940s through the present [26].
Marine Arctic 2009
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Within the Canadian Archipelago in late winter, land-fast ice bridges channels up to 200 km wide and covers an area of 1 million km2.
Marine Arctic 2009
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There are no systematic trends over the past 50 years in the thickness of coastal land-fast ice in either northern Canada or Siberia [103].
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"The Boothia Strait doesn't have land-fast ice, so it could be moving or cracking, and there will be some open waters and polynyas along our way."
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One even of these must lie close to the shore, with a land-fast there: and that is the best for a small ship.
A Voyage to New Holland William Dampier 1683
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