Stable isotopes of landfast sea ice as a record of La Grande River under-ice plume dispersal
Vertical profiles of salinity, and isotopic abundance ratios of hydrogen (δ2H) and oxygen (δ18O) of 18 landfast ice cores, collected along the northeast coast of James Bay in March 2019, and one ice core collected in Belcher Islands, were used to obtain the winter timeseries of the spatiotemporal ev...
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| description | Vertical profiles of salinity, and isotopic abundance ratios of hydrogen (δ2H) and oxygen (δ18O) of 18 landfast ice cores, collected along the northeast coast of James Bay in March 2019, and one ice core collected in Belcher Islands, were used to obtain the winter timeseries of the spatiotemporal evolution of the under-ice plume of La Grande River (LGR), the dominant river in the area. Variability in the isotopic composition and salinity of the ice cores indicated changes to the water source composition at the ice–water interface when the ice layers formed. The increased presence of river water beneath the ice during January–March was marked by more negative isotopic ratios in the lower portion of the ice as river discharge was increased for hydroelectric production. River water was the source of ∼43% of the ice in our ice core samples (n = 320) with the interquartile range from 16% to 71%. The river water fractions incorporated into the ice indicate that LGR under-ice plume extended more than 75 km north and at least 30 km south of the river mouth for ∼3 months. These findings correspond well with more challenging to obtain hydrographic observations. End-of-winter ice core sampling and analysis for isotopic abundance has potential as a tool to monitor dispersal of LGR discharge into the ice-covered coastal environment. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-9adcc364b8144c5caaa9fc9db9b1662c2024-12-02T15:40:46ZengCanadian Science PublishingArctic Science2368-74602024-12-0110469871210.1139/as-2024-0003Stable isotopes of landfast sea ice as a record of La Grande River under-ice plume dispersalAura Diaz0Zou Zou A. Kuzyk1Alessia Guzzi2Kaushik Gupta3Tim Papakyriakou4Jens K. Ehn5Centre for Earth Observation Science, Riddell Faculty of Environment Earth and Resources, University of Manitoba, 125 Dysart Rd, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T 2N2, CanadaCentre for Earth Observation Science, Riddell Faculty of Environment Earth and Resources, University of Manitoba, 125 Dysart Rd, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T 2N2, CanadaCentre for Earth Observation Science, Riddell Faculty of Environment Earth and Resources, University of Manitoba, 125 Dysart Rd, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T 2N2, CanadaCentre for Earth Observation Science, Riddell Faculty of Environment Earth and Resources, University of Manitoba, 125 Dysart Rd, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T 2N2, CanadaCentre for Earth Observation Science, Riddell Faculty of Environment Earth and Resources, University of Manitoba, 125 Dysart Rd, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T 2N2, CanadaCentre for Earth Observation Science, Riddell Faculty of Environment Earth and Resources, University of Manitoba, 125 Dysart Rd, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T 2N2, CanadaVertical profiles of salinity, and isotopic abundance ratios of hydrogen (δ2H) and oxygen (δ18O) of 18 landfast ice cores, collected along the northeast coast of James Bay in March 2019, and one ice core collected in Belcher Islands, were used to obtain the winter timeseries of the spatiotemporal evolution of the under-ice plume of La Grande River (LGR), the dominant river in the area. Variability in the isotopic composition and salinity of the ice cores indicated changes to the water source composition at the ice–water interface when the ice layers formed. The increased presence of river water beneath the ice during January–March was marked by more negative isotopic ratios in the lower portion of the ice as river discharge was increased for hydroelectric production. River water was the source of ∼43% of the ice in our ice core samples (n = 320) with the interquartile range from 16% to 71%. The river water fractions incorporated into the ice indicate that LGR under-ice plume extended more than 75 km north and at least 30 km south of the river mouth for ∼3 months. These findings correspond well with more challenging to obtain hydrographic observations. End-of-winter ice core sampling and analysis for isotopic abundance has potential as a tool to monitor dispersal of LGR discharge into the ice-covered coastal environment.https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/as-2024-0003landfast sea iceunder-ice plumestable isotopic ratio |
| spellingShingle | Aura Diaz Zou Zou A. Kuzyk Alessia Guzzi Kaushik Gupta Tim Papakyriakou Jens K. Ehn Stable isotopes of landfast sea ice as a record of La Grande River under-ice plume dispersal Arctic Science landfast sea ice under-ice plume stable isotopic ratio |
| title | Stable isotopes of landfast sea ice as a record of La Grande River under-ice plume dispersal |
| title_full | Stable isotopes of landfast sea ice as a record of La Grande River under-ice plume dispersal |
| title_fullStr | Stable isotopes of landfast sea ice as a record of La Grande River under-ice plume dispersal |
| title_full_unstemmed | Stable isotopes of landfast sea ice as a record of La Grande River under-ice plume dispersal |
| title_short | Stable isotopes of landfast sea ice as a record of La Grande River under-ice plume dispersal |
| title_sort | stable isotopes of landfast sea ice as a record of la grande river under ice plume dispersal |
| topic | landfast sea ice under-ice plume stable isotopic ratio |
| url | https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/as-2024-0003 |
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