Environmental Working Group Joint U.S.-Russian Atlas of the Arctic Ocean

Parameters

POTENTIAL DENSITY
SALINITY
WATER TEMPERATURE

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

Data Citation

Arctic Climatology Project. 1997. Environmental Working Group joint U.S.-Russian atlas of the Arctic Ocean - winter period. Edited by L. Timokhov and F. Tanis. Ann Arbor, MI: Environmental Research Institute of Michigan in association with the National Snow and Ice Data Center. CD-ROM.

Arctic Climatology Project. 1998. Environmental Working Group joint U.S.-Russian atlas of the Arctic Ocean - summer period. Edited by L. Timokhov and F. Tanis. Ann Arbor, MI: Environmental Research Institute of Michigan in association with the National Snow and Ice Data Center. CD-ROM.