G02176
Sea Ice Charts of the Russian Arctic in Gridded Format, 1933-2006
Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute. Compiled by V. Smolyanitsky, V. Borodachev, A. Mahoney, F. Fetterer, and R. G. Barry.
Sea Ice Charts of the Russian Arctic in Gridded Format, 1933-2006
2007-11-12
Boulder, Colorado USA
NSIDC: National Snow and Ice Data Center
http://nsidc.org/data/g02176.html
http://dx.doi.org/10.7265/N5D21VHJ
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Investigator
V.
Smolyanitsky
Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute
St. Petersburg
Russia
Investigator
V.
Borodachev
Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute
St. Petersburg
Russia
Investigator
F.
Fetterer
fetterer@nsidc.org
CIRES
National Snow and Ice Data Center
449 UCB
Boulder
CO
80309
USA
Investigator
A.
Mahoney
CIRES/University of Colorado at Boulder
National Snow and Ice Data Center
Boulder
CO
USA
Investigator
R.
G.
Barry
University of Colorado
National Snow and Ice Data Center/World Data Center for Glaciology
449 UCB
Boulder
CO
80309-0449
USA
EARTH SCIENCE
Cryosphere
Sea Ice
Ice Types
EARTH SCIENCE
Cryosphere
Sea Ice
Sea Ice Concentration
EARTH SCIENCE
Oceans
Sea Ice
Ice Types
EARTH SCIENCE
Oceans
Sea Ice
Sea Ice Concentration
Climatology/Meteorology/Atmosphere
Oceans
AARI
EASE-Grid
ICE CHARTS
SIGRID
INFRARED RADIOMETERS
RADIOMETERS
SAR
Synthetic Aperture Radar
SLAR
Side-Looking Airborne Radar
VISIBLE SPECTROMETER
VISUAL OBSERVATIONS
AIRCRAFT
BUOYS
GROUND STATIONS
SATELLITES
1933-01-01
1992-12-31
1997-01-01
2006-12-31
complete
65
90
-180
-150
60
90
-180
180
65
90
-30
180
CONTINENT
EUROPE
EASTERN EUROPE
RUSSIA
GEOGRAPHIC REGION
ARCTIC
GEOGRAPHIC REGION
NORTHERN HEMISPHERE
12.5 km
12.5 km
English
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80309-0449
USA
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NSIDC National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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USA
FTP
262 MB
PNG
FTP
36 MB
ASCII Text
Arctic Climatology Project. 2000. Environmental Working Group joint U.S.-Russian sea ice atlas. Edited by F. Tanis and V. Smolyanitsky. Ann Arbor, MI: Environmental Research Institute of Michigan, in association with the National Snow and Ice Data Center. CD-ROM.
Borodachev, B.E. and Shilnikov, V.I. 2002. Istoriya ledovoi aviatsionnoi razvedki v Arktike i na zamerzayushchikh moryakh Rossii (1914-1993 gg) [The History of Aerial Ice Reconnaissance in the Arctic and Ice-covered Seas of Russia, 1914-1993]. St. Petersburg: Gidrometeoizdat. 441 pp.
Brodzik, M. J. and K. W. Knowles. 2002. EASE-Grid: a versatile set of equal-area projections and grids. In M. Goodchild (ed.), Discrete global grids. Santa Barbara, CA, USA: National Center for Geographic Information & Analysis. Environment Canada, 2005. Manual of standard procedures for observing and reporting ice conditions (MANICE). Issuing authority: Assistant Deputy Minister, Meteorological Service of Canada. http://ice-glaces.ec.gc.ca/App/WsvPageDsp.cfm?ID=172&LnId=23&Lang=eng
Fetterer, F., and V. Troisi. 1997. AARI 10-Day Arctic Ocean EASE-Grid sea ice observations. Boulder, CO, USA: National Snow and Ice Data Center. Digital media.
Johannessen, O.M., et al. 2007. Remote sensing of the sea ice in the Northern Sea route: studies and applications. Chichester, UK: Praxis Publishing.
The Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI) in St. Petersburg, Russia, produces sea ice charts for safety of navigation in the polar regions and for other operational and scientific purposes. Arctic charts from 1933 through 2006 are collected in this data set. Chart frequency and spatial coverage varies, but charts were compiled every 10 days during the navigation season, and monthly for the rest of the year, over most of the series. There is a gap with no charts from 1993 through 1996. Chart coverage focuses on the Northern Sea Route, although later charts extend into the central Arctic. The charts were compiled from a variety of data sources, with heavy reliance on regular reconnaissance flights for most of the series until 1992.
Early paper charts were digitized, and the entire series, including later charts that were produced entirely digitally, were converted to Sea Ice Grid (SIGRID) format at AARI. AARI provided code to read the SIGRID data and convert it to a format close to Equal Area Scalable (EASE)-Grid. NSIDC completed the conversion to EASE-Grid. The EASE-Grid is in a Lambert equal-area projection with 12.5 km cell size. Total ice concentration, as well as partial concentrations for multiyear, first-year, new/young ice (ice younger than first-year ice), and fast ice, are given in EASE-Grid (binary), SIGRID (ASCII), and browse (PNG) files. Data are available via FTP. This data set replaces and updates the previous data set, AARI 10-Day Arctic Ocean EASE-Grid Sea Ice Observations (nsidc-0050, discontinued December 2007), and the Russian Arctic charts on the Environmental Working Group Joint U.S.-Russian Arctic Sea Ice Atlas (http://nsidc.org/data/g01962.html).
Access to the data is unrestricted, but users are encouraged to register for the data. Registered users will receive e-mail notification about any product changes.
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CEOS IDN DIF
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2007-11-12
2013-03-12
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