Paleoclimatic controls on the formation and maintenance of Pikialasorsuaq (the North Water polynya)

Hannah M Zanowski1, Alexandra Jahn2, Jed E Lenetsky3, Benoit Lecavalier4, Anne E Jennings5, Patrick Ugrinow3, Rajan Patel3, Ivonne Martinez6, Christopher Wyburn-Powell2 and Patricia DeRepentigny7, (1)University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States, (2)University of Colorado Boulder, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR), Boulder, CO, United States, (3)University of Colorado at Boulder, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Boulder, United States, (4)Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John's, Canada, (5)Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)Harvard University, Cambridge, United States, (7)University of Colorado Boulder, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR), Boulder, United States