Environmental Working Group Joint U.S.-Russian Arctic Sea Ice Atlas

Parameters

ICE DEFORMATION
ICE DEPTH/THICKNESS
ICE EXTENT
ICE TYPES
OCEAN CURRENTS
SEA ICE AGE
SEA ICE CONCENTRATION
SEA ICE MOTION
SEA LEVEL PRESSURE
SNOW COVER

Instruments

UPWARD LOOKING SONAR
VISUAL OBSERVATIONS

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 order to expand scientific understanding of the Arctic, the EWG Arctic Climatology Project compiled digital data for arctic regions in January 1996. This work led to a set of three atlases on CD-ROM for arctic oceanography, sea ice, and meteorology.

U.S. and Russian partners developed the EWG Joint U.S.-Russian Arctic Sea Ice Atlas. The U.S. Navy submarine and Meteorology and Oceanography (METOC) community strongly supported this project. The U.S. Arctic Submarine Laboratory and the National Ice Center (NIC)/Naval Ice Center (NAVICE)--a joint agency supported by the U.S. Navy, NOAA, and the U.S. Coast Guard--prepared the data. The Russian Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI) in St. Petersburg contributed sea ice data and analyses. The U.S. Environmental Research Institute in Michigan designed and compiled the CD-ROM and served as managing editor of the project.

Please register with NSIDC User Services to receive the EWG Joint U.S.-Russian Arctic Sea Ice Atlas CD-ROM. Refer to The Environmental Working Group Arctic Atlases on CD-ROM Web page for information about other related products.

Data Citation

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.