Environmental Working Group Joint U.S.-Russian Atlas of the Arctic Ocean  View Catalog Page Entry ID
G01961
Summary
The Environmental Working Group (EWG) was established in June 1995 under the framework of the U.S.-Russian Joint Commission on Economic and Technological Cooperation. In January 1996, the EWG Arctic Climatology Group took on the task of compiling digital data on arctic regions to expand scientific understanding of the Arctic. This work resulted in a set of three atlases on CD-ROM for arctic oceanography, sea ice, and meteorology.
The Environmental Working Group Joint U.S.- Russian Atlas of the Arctic Ocean was developed by specialists from the Environmental Research Institute of Michigan with Russian and U.S. partners. The Atlas consists of separate volumes for winter and summer (NSIDC data set IDs G01961a and G01961b respectively). More than 1.3 million individual temperature and salinity observations collected from Russian and western drifting stations, ice breakers, and airborne expeditions were used to develop the products contained in the winter atlas.
The primary products on the atlas are gridded mean fields for decadal periods (1950s,1960s, 1970s, 1980s) of temperature, salinity, density and dynamic height, Atlantic water layer depth, and temperature and salinity profiles and transects. The original individual observations that were used to derive these fields are not provided with the Atlas and are not available.
Note that the 'Polar Science Center Hydrographic Climatology (PHC) ocean database (version 3.0)' is available from the Polar Science Center, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington as of 18 April 2005. This is a global gridded database with a high quality description of arctic seas achieved by merging data from several sources, including data from the Environmental Working Group Joint U.S.-Russian Atlas of the Arctic Ocean. The PHC or later versions may me more suitableyou're your research. Inquires may be sent to:
Michael Steele Applied Physics Laboratory 1013 NE 40th St. Seattle, WA 98105
Geographic Coverage
Spatial Coordinates:
N: 90°
S: 60°
E: 180°
W: -180°
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Data Set Citation
Dataset Creator: Arctic Climatology Project, . Edited by L. Timokhov and F. Tanis.
Dataset Title: Environmental Working Group Joint U.S.-Russian Atlas of the Arctic Ocean
Dataset Release Date: 1997-01-01
Dataset Release Place: Boulder, Colorado USA
Dataset Publisher: NSIDC: National Snow and Ice Data Center
Online Resource: http://nsidc.org/data/g01961.html
Dataset DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7265/N5H12ZX4
Temporal Coverage
Start Date: 1948-01-01
Stop Date: 1993-12-31
Location Keywords
- OCEAN ARCTIC OCEAN
Science Keywords
- Oceans Ocean Circulation
- Oceans Ocean Pressure
- Oceans Ocean Temperature Water Temperature
- Oceans Salinity/Density Potential Density
- Oceans Salinity/Density Salinity
Ancillary Keywords
- Dynamic Height Field
- EWG
- Greenland Sea
- Nordic Seas
- Norwegian Sea
- PHC
- Polar Science Center Hydrographic Climatology
- Climatology/Meteorology/Atmosphere
- Oceans
Platform
Originating Center
NSIDC
Data Center
National Snow and Ice Data Center
Data Center URL: http://nsidc.org
Data Center Personnel
Name: NSIDC User Services
Phone: 1 303 492-6199
Fax: 1 303 492-2468
Email: nsidc@nsidc.org
Contact Address:
- National Snow and Ice Data Center
- CIRES, 449 UCB
- University of Colorado
City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA
NSIDC National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Data Center URL: http://nsidc.org/noaa/
Data Center Personnel
Name: NSIDC NOAA User Services
Phone: 1 303 492-6199
Fax: 1 303 492-2468
Email: nsidc@nsidc.org
Contact Address:
- National Snow and Ice Data Center
- CIRES, 449 UCB
- University of Colorado
City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA
Distribution
Distribution Media: CD-ROM
Personnel
NSIDC User Services
Role: TECHNICAL CONTACT
Phone: 1 303 492-6199 x
Fax: 1 303 492-2468 x
Email: nsidc@nsidc.org
Contact Address:
- National Snow and Ice Data Center
- CIRES, 449 UCB
- University of Colorado
City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA
Related URL
VIEW PROJECT HOME PAGE
All About Arctic Climatology and Meteorology
VIEW PROJECT HOME PAGE
Arctic Climatology Project - EWG Arctic Meteorology and Climate Atlas
VIEW RELATED INFORMATION
Environmental Working Group: Joint U.S.-Russian Arctic Sea Ice Atlas
VIEW RELATED INFORMATION
The Environmental Working Group Arctic Atlases on CD-ROM Overview
Metadata Name and Version
Metadata Name: CEOS IDN DIF
Metadata Version: 9.7
Creation and Review Dates
DIF Creation Date: 1997-01-01
Last DIF Revision Date: 2013-04-03
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