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Abstract
This article presents analysis of ice condition variability in Gronfjorden Bay, Svalbard, from 1974 to 2008. A dataset was created containing 18 fast-ice characteristics for Gronfjorden Bay. The data of the ice conditions and main oceanographic and meteorological characteristics are analyzed. The analysis confirms the tendency toward a less harsh climate during the last quarter of the twentieth and the beginning of twenty-first centuries in the area of Gronfjorden Bay.
Acknowledgments
We appreciate the support of the projects Norwegian-Russian Collaboration on Fast Ice Growth and Decay in Kongsfjorden and Grønfjorden (Svalbard) (NoRu-FastIce), RFFI project No. 08-05-00279, and Otto-Schmidt Laboratory project # OSL-11-09, and would like to thank Dr. Timothy Edmund Heleniak for consulting and help.