Newfoundland Ice Extent
Authored articles
Hill, B.T. and S.J. Jones. The Newfoundland ice extent and the solar cycle from 1860 to 1988. Journal of Geophysical Research, v.95 #c4 pp 5385-5394. https://doi.org/10.1029/JC095iC04p05385
Hill, B.T. Historical Record of Sea Ice and Iceberg Distribution Around Newfoundland and Labrador: 1810-1958. Proceedings of the 18th International conference Offshore mechanics and Arctic engineering; OMAE 1999; St John’s, Canada. OMAE 2000, pp. 365-372
Ogilvie, Astrid E.J., Brian T. Hill & Trausti Jónsson. Sea Ice as Enemy and Friend: The Case of Iceland and Labrador/Nunatsiavut. Sixth Open Assembly of the Northern Research Forum, Hveragerði, Iceland, September 2011. Available at: https://www.rha.is/static/files/NRF/OpenAssemblies/Hveragerdi2011/proceedings/finalastridogilvienrf2011paper.pdf
Weckström, Kaarina; Guillaume Massé, L.G. Collins, Sami Hanhijärvi, Ioanna Bouloubassi, M.A. Sicre, M.-S. Seidenkrantz, Sabine Schmidt, T.J. Andersen, M.L. Andersen, Brian Hill, Antoon Kuijpers. Evaluation of the sea ice proxy IP25 against observational and diatom proxy data in the SW Labrador Sea. Quaternary Science Reviews Volume 79, 1 November 2013, pp. 53–62. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.02.012
Hill, Brian; Alan Ruffman, Rolf-Werner Baak. The Prinz Adalbert Iceberg: the iceberg that did not sink the Titanic. Atlantic Daily Bulletin (Quarterly magazine of the British Titanic Society), December 2013. Available at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261985675_The_Prinz_Adalbert_Iceberg_the_iceberg_that_did_not_sink_the_Titanic
Hill, Brian and Alan Ruffman. Capt. E.J. Smith of the R.M.S. Titanic: his previous ice experience. Atlantic Daily Bulletin (Quarterly magazine of the British Titanic Society), March 2014. Available at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/269985651_Capt_EJ_Smith_of_the_RMS_Titanic_his_previous_ice_experience
Astrid E. J. Ogilvie, Brian T. Hill and Gaston R. Demarée. A Fleet of Silver: Local Knowledge Perceptions of Sea Ice from Iceland and Labrador/Nunatsiavut. Chapter 12, Biogeography in the Sub-Arctic: The Past and Future of North Atlantic Biota, pp 275-292. Eds Jon P. Sadler and Eva Panagiotakopulu. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118561461.ch12
Selected Books and Articles in which data has been referenced
Bigg, Grant R. (see also Collision Database below)
Wood, Kevin R., James E Overland, Trausti Jonsson & Brian V. Smoliak, Air Temperature variations on the Atlantic-Arctic boundary since 1802, Geophysical Research Letters, Vol.37, L17708. Available at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/253205397_Air_temperature_variations_on_the_Atlantic_-_Arctic_boundary_since_1802_the_low-frequency_pattern_and_ocean_teleconnections
J.T. Andrews, C. Vogt. Source to sink: Statistical identification of regional variations in the mineralogy of surface sediments in the western Nordic Seas (58°N–75°N; 10°W–40°W). Marine Geology 11/2014; 357:151-162, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2014.08.005
S. Hetzinger, J. Halfar, T. Zack, J. V. Mecking, B. E. Kunz, D. E. Jacob & W. H. Adey. Coralline algal Barium as indicator for 20th century northwestern North Atlantic surface ocean freshwater variability. Scientific Reports. 3 (1761). https://doi.org/10.1038/srep01761
J. Halfar, W. H. Adey, A. Kronz, S. Hetzinger, E. Edinger & W. W. Fitzhugh. Arctic sea-ice decline archived by multicentury annual-resolution record from crustose coralline algal proxy. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2013 Dec 3; 110(49): 19737–19741 available at doi: 10.1073/pnas.1313775110
Natasha Leclerc, Jochen Halfar, Steffen Hetzinger, Phoebe P.T.W. Chan, Walter Adey, Alexandra Tsay, Eric Brossier, Andreas Kronz. Suitability of the Coralline Alga Clathromorphum compactum as an Arctic Archive for Past Sea ice Cover. AGU Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology. Research Article, 9 December 2021 https://doi.org/10.1029/2021PA004286
I.K. Peterson, R. Pettipas & A. Rosing-Asvid. (2015) Trends and Variability in Sea Ice and Icebergs off the Canadian East Coast, Atmosphere-Ocean, 53:5, 582-594, DOI:10.1080/07055900.2015.1057684
Walsh, J. E., W. L. Chapman, F. Fetterer, and S. Stewart. 2019. Gridded Monthly Sea Ice Extent and Concentration, 1850 Onward, Version 2. Boulder, Colorado USA. NSIDC: National Snow and Ice Data Center. doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.7265/jj4s-tq79. PDF available at: https://nsidc.org/sites/nsidc.org/files/G10010_V002.0.pdf
Peter Loewe & Gerhard Koslowski (1998) The Western Baltic sea ice season in terms of a mass-related severity index 1879–1992 (II ). Spectral characteristics and associations with the NAO, QBO, and solar cycle, Tellus A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography, 50:2, 219-241, DOI: 10.3402/tellusa.v50i2.14522
Leclerc N, Halfar J, Porter TJ, Black BA, Hetzinger S, Zulian M and Tsay A. (2022) Utility of Dendrochronology Crossdating Methods in the Development of Arctic Coralline Red Algae Clathromorphum compactum Growth Increment Chronology for Sea Ice Cover Reconstruction. Frontiers in Marine Science. 09 June 202.2 doi: 10.3389/fmars.2022.923088
Burgdorf, Angela-Maria (2022) A global inventory of quantitative documentary evidence related to climate since the 15th century. June 2022 Climate of the Past 18(6):1407-1428. DOI: 10.5194/cp-18-1407-2022
Martin W. Miles, Dmitry V. Divine, Tore Furevik, Eystein Jansen, Matthias Moros, Astrid E. J. Ogilvie (2013) A signal of persistent Atlantic multidecadal variability in Arctic sea ice. Geophysical Research Letters 2014 Vol. 41, Issue 2, 28 January 2014 pp. 463-469 https://doi.org/10.1002/2013GL058084
Sea Ice in the Arctic: Past, Present and Future. Ola M. Johannessen, Leonid P. Bobylev, Elena V. Shalina, Stein Sandven (Eds.) Springer 2020
Gulf of St. Lawrence and Scotian Shelf Ice Extent
Authored articles
Hill, B.; Ruffman, A.; Drinkwater, K. Historical record of the incidence of sea ice on the Scotian shelf and the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Ice in the Environment: Proceedings of the 16th IAHR International Symposium on Ice Dunedin, New Zealand, 2nd–6th December 2002. International Association of Hydraulic Engineering and Research
Selected Articles in which data has been referenced
Lemke, P., J. Ren, R.B. Alley, I. Allison, J. Carrasco, G. Flato, Y. Fujii, G. Kaser, P. Mote, R.H. Thomas and T. Zhang, 2007: Observations: Changes in Snow, Ice and Frozen Ground. In: Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Solomon, S., D. Qin, M. Manning, Z. Chen, M. Marquis, K.B. Averyt, M. Tignor and H.L. Miller (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA. P351. https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/02/ar4-wg1-chapter4-1.pdf
Devor, Teresa. The explanatory power of climate history for the 19th-century Maritimes and Newfoundland: A prospectus. June 2014 Acadiensis 43(2):57-78. Available at https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/acadiensis/article/view/22686/26328
Culbertson-Paoli, Madison, Laura Farro and Steven Wilkinson, 2019. In search of a climate change signal in Nova Scotia: the Alexander Mackay data, 1901-1923. Proceedings of the Nova Scotian Institute of Science Volume 50, Part 1, pp. 131-163
Iceberg Sightings Database
Authored Articles
Hill, B.; Ruffman, A.; Ivany, K. Historical data added to the Grand Banks Iceberg Database. ICETECH 2008; 8th international conference and exhibition on Performance of ships and structures in ice, Banff, AB, Canada, July 20-23, 2008 [ICETECH 2008; proceedings of the 8th international conference and exhibition on Performance of ships and structures in ice. ICETECH, Vol.8, Paper no. ICETECH08-109-RF;]; Frank G. Bercha and Susan Bercha. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/44073840_Historical_data_added_to_the_Grand_Banks_Iceberg_Database
Selected Articles in which data has been referenced
Bigg, Grant R. (see also Collision Database below)
Armstrong, Tessa. Ice islands: their presence in the North Atlantic Ocean. : NRC Institute for Ocean Technology. Student Report, SR-2008-28. https://doi.org/10.4224/19379148
Trott, B.; Comfort. G. PERD Iceberg Sighting Database: 2007. PERD/CHC Report 20-86, 2007-03. https://doi.org/10.4224/12327229
Veitch, Brian; Daley, Claude. Iceberg evolution modelling : A background study. PERD/CHC Report, OERC Report, 2000-05-06. https://doi.org/10.4224/12341002
Lane, S. The iceberg sightings database: the Orphan Basin. Student Report (National Research Council of Canada. Institute for Ocean Technology); no. SR-2006-15, 2006. https://doi.org/10.4224/8895007
D. Sudom, G. Timco and A. Tivy, “Iceberg sightings, shapes and management techniques for offshore Newfoundland and Labrador: Historical data and future applications,” 2014 Oceans – St. John’s, 2014, pp. 1-8, doi: 10.1109/OCEANS.2014.7003298.
Ship Iceberg Collision Database
Authored Articles
Hill, Brian. The Collision of the SS Montrose with an Iceberg July 1909, from the Diary of Frank Horlor, published online in Summer, 2022, Issue Vol. XXXIX, No.3 of the Argonauta of the Canadian Nautical Research Society, pp 10-22 available at https://www.cnrs-scrn.org/argonauta/pdf/argo_39_3.pdf , and please note that the three mentions of Cape Ray on p.17 should be read as Cape Race.
Hill, Brian T. Ship Collision with Iceberg Database. Icetech06, International Conference and Exhibition on Performance of Ships and Structures in Ice, Banff, Alberta July 16-19, 2006. Paper CETECH06-117-RF available at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/44084643_Ship_Collision_with_Iceberg_Database
Hill, Brian T. Ship Collisions with Iceberg Database. Report to PERD: Trends and analysis. November 2005. TR-2005-17
Hill, B. Ship collisions with icebergs: a brief review, past to present. USCG Proceedings of the Marine Safety and Security Council, Spring 2005, Vol.62 No.1. pp. 75-78.
Hill, Brian T. Ship Collisions with Icebergs: an Historical Record of Collisions in the Seas around North America and Greenland. Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Port and Ocean Engineering under Arctic Conditions ’01, Ottawa, Canada Vol.2 pp 997-1002. Available at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/44075834_Ship_collisions_with_icebergs_an_historical_record_of_collisions_in_the_seas_around_North_America_and_Greenland
Hill, Brian T. Database of Ship Collisions with Icebergs. Report of the International Ice Patrol Bulletin in the North Atlantic. 2000 Season, Bulletin No.86, CG-188-55
Hill, Brian. “Iceberg Right Ahead!”: A quick look at one hundred and fifty years of iceberg risk in the North Atlantic shipping lanes. Cutting Edge Volume 2 (Spring 2016); A Journal of Interdisciplinary Science at the University of British Columbia. (Ed: Cluny South).
Selected Books & Articles in which data has been referenced
Murphy, Brian. Adrift: A True Story of Tragedy on the Icy Atlantic and the One Who Lived to Tell about It. Hatchette Books, 2018.
Koch, Tom. The Wreck of the William Brown: A True Tale of Murder at Sea, Douglas and McIntyre, 2003
McCarty, Jennifer Hooper & Tim Foecke. What Really Sank the Titanic: New Forensic Discoveries, Citadel Press, 2008
Gosnell, Mariana. Ice. The Nature, the History and the Uses of this Astonishing Substance, Alfred A. Knopf, Nov.2005.
Bigg, Grant R. Icebergs. Their Science and Links to Global Change. Cambridge University Press, Dec., 2015. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107589278
Xu, Sheng, Ekaterina Kim, Stein Haugen. Review and comparison of existing risk analysis models applied within shipping in ice-covered waters. Safety Science Vol. 141, September 2021, Article 105335. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2021.105335
Tak-Kee, Lee and Hyun-Jin Park. Review of Ice Characteristics in Ship-Iceberg Collisions. Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology 35(5), 369-381, October, 2021. https://doi.org/10.26748/KSOE.2021.060
Marchenko, Nataliya. Floating Ice Induced Ship Casualties. 22nd IAHR International Symposium on Ice Singapore, August 11 to 15, 2014.
Ross, J.B.; Bigg, G.R.; Zhao, Y.; Hanna, E. A Combined Control Systems and Machine Learning Approach to Forecasting Iceberg Flux off Newfoundland. MDPI – Sustainability 2021, 13, 7705. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13147705
Kim, Ekaterina, Martin Storheim, Rüdiger von Bock und Polach and Jørgen Amdahl. Design and Modelling of Accidental Ship Collisions with Ice Masses at Laboratory Scale. Proceedings of the ASME 2012 31st International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering, OMAE2012, July 1-6, 2012, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. OMAE2012-83544
Kim, E., J. Amdahl, M. Song. On a shifting pressure-area relationship for the accidental limit state analysis of abnormal ice actions. Progress in the Analysis and Design of Marine Structures: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Marine Structures (MARSTRUCT 2017), May 8-10, 2017, Lisbon, Portugal. Carlos Guedes Soares & Y. Garbatov (Eds). Taylor & Francis Group, London.
Nordic Council of Ministers. Bottom Trawling and Scallop Dredging in the Arctic: Impacts of fishing on non-target species, vulnerable habitats and cultural heritage. Elena Guijarro Garcia (Ed). Copenhagen, 2007.