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Sea ice choke points reduce the length of the shipping season in the Northwest Passage

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Arctic sea ice has shifted from a perennial (older, thicker ice) to a seasonal (younger, thinner) ice regime, leading to the increasingly common belief that shipping through Canada’s Northwest Passage is becoming more viable. Here, we use the Risk Index Outcome values derived from the Polar Operational Limit Assessment Risk Indexing System and analyze recent changes to shipping season lengths along individual sections of the Northwest Passage ro…

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Sea ice choke points reduce the length of the shipping season in the Northwest Passage

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