Iceberg Alley is dreary and chilly for the most of the year. St. John’s, the largest city on its coasts, is often called “Canada’s Weather Champion.” The capital of Newfoundland and Labrador has fewer than 1,500 hours of sunlight per year and more than its fair share of snow, wind, rain, and clouds compared to other large Canadian cities.
Whereas, Seattle only sees 2,200 hours of sun every year. St. John’s has more precipitation than Seattle or Seattle and Tampa combined due to the city’s persistent overcast. May through August is when the light finally makes its way through the clouds and begins to melt the ice off the coast.
During this brief time period, when Newfoundland receives over half of the sunlight it will receive all year, the Labrador Sea is dominated by icebergs. The frozen mountains can now continue their trek toward the Atlantic as the Arctic ice pack continues its seasonal melt and Baffin Bay thaws.
The term “calving” is used by glaciologists to describe how most icebergs get separated from Greenland’s west coast glaciers. This process is described using the same phrase by speakers of languages as diverse as Afrikaans and Uzbek as if the icebergs were the live progeny of glaciers.
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The Final Stage Of An Iceberg Life Is Especially Volatile And Difficult To Predict
The iceberg cowboys are about to set sail. These hardy sailors make their living by herding icebergs in new directions or capturing elusive leviathans. They don’t care that the International Ice Patrol has issued warnings. Thus, scholars studying icebergs and North Atlantic sea captains would be well-advised to avoid the heroic mariners as role models.
However, the iceberg cowboys provide a glimpse into what it will take to collect icebergs if we are ever going to use them to save the world. They prove that these icy monsters aren’t completely inaccessible.
It snowed in Greenland a million years ago, when mastodons still inhabited the Atlantic Coastal Plain near present-day New London, Connecticut. The ice cores extracted by glaciologists from the nation’s heart attest to this fact. They use a drill that makes a circular hole in the ice around a central point to remove the long, thin tubes of ice.
Since drilling is only possible in the summer in Greenland due to the thickness of the ice sheet (almost two miles), the operation can take a very long time. Glaciologists collect snowflakes, bring them back to the lab, and study the ice to determine what chemicals and particles were caught.
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