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Arctic and Antarctic Sea Ice Concentration, monthly, Walsh et al.

Using various sources for sea ice concentration John Walsh and Bill Chapman have derived a monthly time series of Arctic and Antarctic sea ice concentration.



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PERIODS: 1901 to 1995
VARIABLES:
Ice Extent
LEVELS:
Ground or water surface
TIMES: Every month (Mean)
TYPES: Grid
COVERAGE: Longitude Range: Westernmost=180W Easternmost=180E
Latitude Range: Southernmost=90S Northernmost=90N
Detailed coverage information
SOURCES: UI-UC/ATMO
Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
NSIDC
National Snow and Ice Data Center
PUBLICATIONS: Chapman, W.L. and J.E. Walsh, 1993: Recent variation of sea ice and air temperature in high latitudes. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 74(1), 33-47.

Walsh, J.E., 1977: The incorporation of ice station data into a study of recent Arctic temperature fluctuations. Mon. Wea. Rev., 105, 1527-1535.

Recommended acknowledgement for this dataset:
"The data for this study are from the Research Data Archive (RDA) which is maintained by the Computational and Information Systems Laboratory (CISL) at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). NCAR is sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The original data are available from the RDA (http://dss.ucar.edu) in dataset number ds233.0."
VOLUME: 15.21 MBytes
DATA FORMATS: ASCII (see dataset documentation)
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