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Antarctic Ice Analyses, monthly, by Ropelewski

Monthly sea-ice area data is available for each 10 degrees of longitude for Antarctica starting January 1973. These data are based on weekly charts prepared by ohe Navy-NOAA Joint Ice Center.


PERIODS: 1973 to 1990
VARIABLES:
Ice Extent
LEVELS:
Ground or water surface
TYPES: Grids
SOURCES: DOC/NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC
Climate Prediction Center, National Centers for Environmental Prediction, National Weather Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce
DOC/NOAA/NIC
National Ice Center, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce
PUBLICATIONS: Ropelewski, C.F., 1983: Spatial and Temporal Variations in Antarctic Sea Ice (1973-82). J. Clim. Appl. Meteor., 22, 470-473.

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 ds234.0."
VOLUME: 0.08 MBytes
DATA FORMATS: ASCII (see dataset documentation), Binary (see dataset documentation), WMO GRIB1
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