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 CD-ROM volumes for winter and summer. 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. Note that the original individual observations are not provided on the CD-ROM.
The CD-ROMs are in HTML format and are free of charge. NSIDC also distributes the Arctic Climatology Project - EWG Arctic Meteorology and Climate Atlas and the EWG Joint U.S.-Russian Arctic Sea Ice Atlas free of charge.
Order the CD-ROM as follows:
If you reside in Russia: The Environmental Working Group agreement stipulates that the CD-ROMs will be distributed within Russia by the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI) in St. Petersburg. If you reside in Russia, please request your copy of the CD-ROM from:
Dr. Ivan Frolov, Director,
Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute
St. Petersburg, Russia 199226 E-mail: aaricoop@aari.nw.ru
Telephone: 812 157 6922
Fax: 812 352 2658.
If you do not reside in Russia, you can place your order by contacting NSIDC User Services.
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 data base with a high quality description of arctic seas achieved by merging data from several sources, including the Environmental Working Group Joint U.S.-Russian Atlas of the Arctic Ocean. 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°
Max Depth: 4500M
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Data Set Citation
Dataset Creator: Arctic Climatology Project, Norbert Untersteiner and Vladimir Grishenko
Dataset Title: Environmental Working Group Joint U.S.-Russian Atlas of the Arctic Ocean
Dataset Release Date: 1997-01-01
Dataset Release Place: Boulder, CO USA
Dataset Publisher: National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC)
Data Presentation Form: CD-ROM
Online Resource: http://nsidc.org/data/G01961.html
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 Set ID: G01961
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 Set ID: G01961
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: CDROM
Personnel
NSIDC USER SERVICES
Role: TECHNICAL CONTACT
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
Related URL
http://nsidc.org/NSIDC/EWG/image.jpg
Warm Atlantic water fills the Norwegian Sea. The main flow of the
Norwegian current then moves north through Fram Strait, loses heat
to the atmosphere and surrounding water, and sinks as it moves along
the Eurasian Basin margin.
http://ns.noaa.gov/atlas/
winter atlas contents
http://nsidc.org/NSIDC/EWG/
Detailed information about EWG CD-ROMS.
http://www.nnic.noaa.gov/atlas/html/welcome.htm
Arctic Climatology Atlas web site.
VIEW RELATED INFORMATION
Arctic Climatology Project - Arctic Meteorology and Climate Atlas
VIEW RELATED INFORMATION
Environmental Working Group: Joint U.S.-Russian Arctic Sea Ice Atlas
Metadata Name and Version
Metadata Name: CEOS IDN DIF
Metadata Version: 9.7
Creation and Review Dates
Last DIF Revision Date: 2001-10-04
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