Clues to causes of deformation features in coastal sea ice

Finding clues to the physical processes responsible for interesting sea‐ice features in the Robeson Channel and Lincoln Sea and developing methods to extract this evidence provide stimulating challenges to the Arctic remote‐sensing community. The normal [open season] for ice drift through Robeson Channel (Figure 1), which divides the land masses, is June–December. The channel ice drift is normally to the south due to a combination of prevailing northerly winds and semidiurnal tidal currents that are stronger on flood tide than on ebb tide [Keys et al., 1974].