Seasonal longterm climatology of sea ice thickness in the
arctic digitized by Benjamin Felzer from Bourke and Garrett
maps from submarine underice sonar profiles.
PERIODS:
1960 to 1982
VARIABLES:
Ice Depth/Thickness
Ice Extent
LEVELS:
Ground or water surface
TIMES:
Winter Season Climatology
Spring Season Climatology
Summer Season Climatology
Autumn Season Climatology
TYPES:
Grid
COVERAGE:
Longitude Range: Westernmost=180W Easternmost=180E
Latitude Range: Southernmost=54.944N Northernmost=90N
Detailed coverage informationDetailed coverage information:
1° x 1°, 179.5W to 179.5E and 89.5N to 65.5N (360 x 25 Longitude/Latitude)
37.93km x 37.93km (at 60N) oriented 0E (141x141 North Polar Stereographic)
Climate and Global Dynamics Division, National Center for Atmospheric Research, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
PUBLICATIONS:
Bourke, R.H. and R.P. Garrett, 1987: Sea ice thickness distribution in the Arctic Ocean. Cold Regions Sci. and Tech., 13, 259-280.
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 ds233.5."
VOLUME:
5.17 MBytes
DATA FORMATS:
ASCII (see dataset documentation)
CONTACT:
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Steve Worley (303-497-1248)
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Spring Season Climatology
Detailed coverage information
