DavisStrait news

No Way Jose

NBC Connecticut - Sep 14, 2017
A huge, blocking ridge of high pressure will situate itself from Hudson Bay through the Davis Strait. This may be enough to prevent Jose from curving out to sea. In fact, today's European Ensemble forecast shows 20% of modeled scenarios hooking Jose ...

Uncovering Clues About the Arctic's Past Climate in Old Whaling Logs

News Deeply

News Deeply - Sep 14, 2017
It was the safest and most efficient way to sail eastward, back across the Davis Strait toward home in late summer. In these same waters 190 years later, almost to the day, the sea was calm and the sun hot overhead. There were small, infrequent ...

The immense challenge of the Northwest Passage

The Globe and Mail - Aug 22, 2017
The Northwest Passage (which describes the whole route from the Davis Strait to the Bering Sea) is ice-locked for most of the year and has no deep-sea ports or major stopping-off points. Only 4 per cent of these waters are fully charted, and the ...