Environmental Working Group Joint U.S.-Russian Atlas of the Arctic Ocean  View Catalog Page
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Environmental Working Group Joint U.S.-Russian Atlas of the Arctic Ocean
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Contact Voice Telephone: 1 303 492-6199 x
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Delivery Point: CIRES, 449 UCB
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2013-05-20
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Dataset URI:
http://nsidc.org/data/g01961.html
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Citation:
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Title: Environmental Working Group Joint U.S.-Russian Atlas of the Arctic Ocean
Date:
Date: 1997
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Edition Date: 1997-01-01
Identifier: G01961
Identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.7265/N5H12ZX4
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Individual Name: NSIDC User Services
Organization Name: National Snow and Ice Data Center
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Contact Phone:
Contact Voice Telephone: 1 303 492-6199
Contact Address:
Delivery Point: National Snow and Ice Data Center
City: Boulder
Administrative Area: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA
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Website: http://nsidc.org
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Organization Name: NSIDC National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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Contact Voice Telephone: 1 303 492-6199
Contact Address:
Delivery Point: National Snow and Ice Data Center
City: Boulder
Administrative Area: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
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Abstract:
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
Purpose:
Scientific Research
Credit:
The following example shows how to cite the use of this data set in a publication. For more information, see our Use and Copyright Web page.
Arctic Climatology Project, . 1997. Environmental Working Group Joint U.S.-Russian Atlas of the Arctic Ocean. [indicate subset used]. Edited by L. Timokhov and F. Tanis. Boulder, Colorado USA: National Snow and Ice Data Center. http://dx.doi.org/10.7265/N5H12ZX4.
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Delivery Point: CIRES, 449 UCB
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Contact Voice Telephone: 1 303 492-6199 x
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Delivery Point: CIRES, 449 UCB
City: Boulder
Administrative Area: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA
Email: nsidc@nsidc.org
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Keyword: Ocean > Arctic Ocean
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Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Ocean Circulation
Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Ocean Pressure
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Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Salinity/Density > Potential Density
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Westbound Longitude: -180
Eastbound Longitude: 180
Southbound Latitude: 60
Northbound Latitude: 90
Temporal Element:
Time Period:
Begin Position: 19480101
End Position: 19931231
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Individual Name: NSIDC User Services
Organization Name: National Snow and Ice Data Center
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Contact Voice Telephone: 1 303 492-6199
Contact Address:
Delivery Point: National Snow and Ice Data Center
City: Boulder
Administrative Area: CO
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Country: USA
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Contact Voice Telephone: 1 303 492-6199
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Delivery Point: National Snow and Ice Data Center
City: Boulder
Administrative Area: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA
Email: nsidc@nsidc.org
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Website: http://nsidc.org/noaa/
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