Spring BreakUp Advisory

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Spring Break-Up Advisory
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Spring Advisory

• Purpose is to prevent early season incidents
• Provides
• location of ice edge(s)
• potential high risk areas
• seasonal weather outlook
• Delivered once a season, before hunters leave for
  ice edge(s) -- early May
• Product translated to Inuktitut
• Designed as handbills so hunters can take into
  the field
• First outlook delivered in early May 2000

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Ice Break-Up Updates

• Purpose is to provide an update to Spring
  Advisory product and to forecast break-up
• Delivered every ? Days, event-driven?
• Web-based ?
• Delivered in Spring 2001
• Requires ice strength and forcing information