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Sea Ice Data

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HEAT FLUX

• Coordinated Eastern Arctic Experiment (CEAREX) Data

ICE DEFORMATION

• Coordinated Eastern Arctic Experiment (CEAREX) Data
• Environmental Working Group Joint U.S.-Russian Arctic Sea Ice Atlas
• Morphometric Characteristics of Ice and Snow in the Arctic Basin: Aircraft Landing Observations from the Former Soviet Union, 1928-1989
• Submarine Upward Looking Sonar Ice Draft Profile Data and Statistics

ICE DEPTH/THICKNESS

• AWI Moored ULS Data, Greenland Sea and Fram Strait, 1991-2002
• AWI Moored ULS Data, Weddell Sea (1990-1998)
• Coordinated Eastern Arctic Experiment (CEAREX) Data
• Environmental Working Group Joint U.S.-Russian Arctic Sea Ice Atlas
• Mooring and Drifting Buoy Data: Beaufort Gyre Freshwater Experiment, 2003
• Morphometric Characteristics of Ice and Snow in the Arctic Basin: Aircraft Landing Observations from the Former Soviet Union, 1928-1989
• Submarine Upward Looking Sonar Ice Draft Profile Data and Statistics
• Thickness, Salinity and Stable Isotope Composition of Sea Ice Samples from the Laptev Sea, 1999

ICE EDGES

• Coordinated Eastern Arctic Experiment (CEAREX) Data
• Digital SAR Mosaic and Elevation Map of the Greenland Ice Sheet
• March through August Ice Edge Positions in the Nordic Seas, 1750-2002
• Sea Ice Edge Location and Extent in the Russian Arctic, 1933-2006

ICE EXTENT

• AARI 10-Day Arctic Ocean EASE-Grid Sea Ice Observations
• Arctic and Southern Ocean Sea Ice Concentrations
• BYU Scatterometer Climate Record Pathfinder (SCP) Data Sets
• Coordinated Eastern Arctic Experiment (CEAREX) Data
• DMSP SSM/I Daily and Monthly Polar Gridded Sea Ice Concentrations
• Environmental Working Group Joint U.S.-Russian Arctic Sea Ice Atlas
• MODIS/Aqua Sea Ice Extent 5-Min L2 Swath 1km, Version 4
• MODIS/Aqua Sea Ice Extent 5-Min L2 Swath 1km, Version 5
• MODIS/Aqua Sea Ice Extent and IST Daily L3 Global 4km EASE-Grid Day, Version 4
• MODIS/Aqua Sea Ice Extent and IST Daily L3 Global 4km EASE-Grid Day, Version 5
• MODIS/Aqua Sea Ice Extent Daily L3 Global 1km EASE-Grid Day, Version 4
• MODIS/Aqua Sea Ice Extent Daily L3 Global 1km EASE-Grid Day, Version 5
• MODIS/Terra Sea Ice Extent 5-Min L2 Swath 1km, Version 4
• MODIS/Terra Sea Ice Extent 5-Min L2 Swath 1km, Version 5
• MODIS/Terra Sea Ice Extent and IST Daily L3 Global 4km EASE-Grid Day, Version 4
• MODIS/Terra Sea Ice Extent and IST Daily L3 Global 4km EASE-Grid Day, Version 5
• MODIS/Terra Sea Ice Extent Daily L3 Global 1km EASE-Grid Day, Version 4
• MODIS/Terra Sea Ice Extent Daily L3 Global 1km EASE-Grid Day, Version 5
• MODIS/Terra Sea Ice Extent Daily L3 Global 1km EASE-Grid Night, Version 4
• MODIS/Terra Sea Ice Extent Daily L3 Global 1km EASE-Grid Night, Version 5
• NASA SCP Arctic and Antarctic Ice Extent from QuikSCAT, 1999-2004
• Near Real-Time SSM/I EASE-Grid Daily Global Ice Concentration and Snow Extent
• NIC Arctic and Antarctic Sea Ice Data
• Nimbus-7 SMMR Polar Gridded Radiances and Sea Ice Concentrations
• NOAA/NMC/CAC Arctic and Antarctic Monthly Sea Ice Extent, 1973-1990
• Northern Hemisphere EASE-Grid Weekly Snow Cover and Sea Ice Extent Version 3
• Northern Hemisphere Snow Cover Extent
• Sea Ice Edge Location and Extent in the Russian Arctic, 1933-2006
• Sea Ice Index
• Sea Ice Trends and Climatologies from SMMR and SSM/I
• Sea Ice, Oceanic Water, and Sediments, Arctic Ocean and Beaufort Sea
• Southern Hemisphere Ice Limits, 1973-1978
• The Dehn Collection of Arctic Sea Ice Charts, 1953-1986

ICE FLOES

• Compilation of Antarctic Radar Data, Siple Coast, 2000-2002
• Coordinated Eastern Arctic Experiment (CEAREX) Data
• Morphometric Characteristics of Ice and Snow in the Arctic Basin: Aircraft Landing Observations from the Former Soviet Union, 1928-1989

ICE GROWTH/MELT

• AARI 10-Day Arctic Ocean EASE-Grid Sea Ice Observations
• Coordinated Eastern Arctic Experiment (CEAREX) Data
• IPAB Antarctic Drifting Buoy Data
• Sea Ice Index
• Sea Ice Melt Pond Data from the Canadian Arctic

ICE ROUGHNESS

• GLAS/ICESat L1B Global Elevation Data
• GLAS/ICESat L2 Sea Ice Altimetry Data
• Morphometric Characteristics of Ice and Snow in the Arctic Basin: Aircraft Landing Observations from the Former Soviet Union, 1928-1989
• Submarine Upward Looking Sonar Ice Draft Profile Data and Statistics

ICE TEMPERATURE

• AMSR-E/Aqua Daily L3 25 km Tb, Sea Ice Temperature, & Sea Ice Conc. Polar Grids
• Coordinated Eastern Arctic Experiment (CEAREX) Data
• IPAB Antarctic Drifting Buoy Data
• Meltpond2000 Polarimetric Scanning Radiometer Sea Ice Brightness Temperatures
• MODIS/Aqua Sea Ice Extent 5-Min L2 Swath 1km, Version 4
• MODIS/Aqua Sea Ice Extent 5-Min L2 Swath 1km, Version 5
• MODIS/Aqua Sea Ice Extent and IST Daily L3 Global 4km EASE-Grid Day, Version 4
• MODIS/Aqua Sea Ice Extent and IST Daily L3 Global 4km EASE-Grid Day, Version 5
• MODIS/Aqua Sea Ice Extent Daily L3 Global 1km EASE-Grid Day, Version 4
• MODIS/Aqua Sea Ice Extent Daily L3 Global 1km EASE-Grid Day, Version 5
• MODIS/Aqua Sea Ice Extent Daily L3 Global 1km EASE-Grid Night, Version 5
• MODIS/Terra Sea Ice Extent 5-Min L2 Swath 1km, Version 4
• MODIS/Terra Sea Ice Extent 5-Min L2 Swath 1km, Version 5
• MODIS/Terra Sea Ice Extent and IST Daily L3 Global 4km EASE-Grid Day, Version 4
• MODIS/Terra Sea Ice Extent and IST Daily L3 Global 4km EASE-Grid Day, Version 5
• MODIS/Terra Sea Ice Extent Daily L3 Global 1km EASE-Grid Day, Version 4
• MODIS/Terra Sea Ice Extent Daily L3 Global 1km EASE-Grid Day, Version 5
• MODIS/Terra Sea Ice Extent Daily L3 Global 1km EASE-Grid Night, Version 4
• MODIS/Terra Sea Ice Extent Daily L3 Global 1km EASE-Grid Night, Version 5
• North Pole Environmental Observatory PMEL/CRREL 2000-2003 Ice Temperature and Mass Balance Buoy Data

ICE TYPES

• AARI 10-Day Arctic Ocean EASE-Grid Sea Ice Observations
• Environmental Working Group Joint U.S.-Russian Arctic Sea Ice Atlas
• Sea Ice Charts of the Russian Arctic in Gridded Format, 1933-2006

ICEBERGS

• BYU Scatterometer Climate Record Pathfinder (SCP) Data Sets
• International Ice Patrol (IIP) Iceberg Sightings Database
• International Ice Patrol Iceberg Drift Tracks

ISOTOPES

• Firn Air Inert Gas and Oxygen Observations from Siple Dome, 1996, and the South Pole, 2001
• Thickness, Salinity and Stable Isotope Composition of Sea Ice Samples from the Laptev Sea, 1999

LEADS

• AVHRR Leads-ARI Polar Gridded Brightness Temperatures
• Benthos and Water Column Process Influences, Northeast Water Polynya Project, 1992
• Coordinated Eastern Arctic Experiment (CEAREX) Data
• Submarine Upward Looking Sonar Ice Draft Profile Data and Statistics
• When the Weather is Uggianaqtuq: Inuit Observations of Environmental Change

PACK ICE

• Coordinated Eastern Arctic Experiment (CEAREX) Data

POLYNYAS

• AARI 10-Day Arctic Ocean EASE-Grid Sea Ice Observations
• Benthos and Water Column Process Influences, Northeast Water Polynya Project, 1992
• Coordinated Eastern Arctic Experiment (CEAREX) Data
• Distribution of Zooplankton in the Northeast Water Polynya Project, Summer 1992 and 1993

REFLECTANCE

• AVHRR Leads-ARI Polar Gridded Brightness Temperatures
• Estimates of Sea Ice Floe Velocities Characterizing Whaling Seasons Using Satellite Imagery of the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas, Spring 2000 and 2001
• GLAS/ICESat L1B Global Elevation Data
• GLAS/ICESat L2 Antarctic and Greenland Ice Sheet Altimetry Data
• GLAS/ICESat L2 Sea Ice Altimetry Data
• Sea Ice Index

SALINITY

• North Pole Environmental Observatory (NPEO) Oceanographic Mooring Data, 2001-2002
• Thickness, Salinity and Stable Isotope Composition of Sea Ice Samples from the Laptev Sea, 1999

SEA ICE AGE

• AARI 10-Day Arctic Ocean EASE-Grid Sea Ice Observations
• DMSP SSM/I Daily and Monthly Polar Gridded Sea Ice Concentrations
• Environmental Working Group Joint U.S.-Russian Arctic Sea Ice Atlas

SEA ICE CONCENTRATION

• AARI 10-Day Arctic Ocean EASE-Grid Sea Ice Observations
• AMSR-E/Aqua Daily L3 12.5 km Tb, Sea Ice Conc., & Snow Depth Polar Grids
• AMSR-E/Aqua Daily L3 25 km Tb, Sea Ice Temperature, & Sea Ice Conc. Polar Grids
• Arctic and Southern Ocean Sea Ice Concentrations
• Bootstrap Sea Ice Concentrations from Nimbus-7 SMMR and DMSP SSM/I
• Coordinated Eastern Arctic Experiment (CEAREX) Data
• DMSP SSM/I Daily and Monthly Polar Gridded Sea Ice Concentrations
• DMSP-F8 SSM/I Pathfinder Global Level 2 Sea Ice Concentrations
• Environmental Working Group Joint U.S.-Russian Arctic Sea Ice Atlas
• IMS Daily Northern Hemisphere Snow and Ice Analysis at 4 km and 24 km Resolution
• National Ice Center Arctic Sea Ice Charts and Climatologies in Gridded Format
• Near Real-Time DMSP SSM/I Daily Polar Gridded Sea Ice Concentrations
• Near Real-Time SSM/I EASE-Grid Daily Global Ice Concentration and Snow Extent
• NIC Arctic and Antarctic Sea Ice Data
• Nimbus-5 ESMR Polar Gridded Sea Ice Concentrations
• Nimbus-7 SMMR Polar Gridded Radiances and Sea Ice Concentrations
• NOAA/NMC/CAC Arctic and Antarctic Monthly Sea Ice Extent, 1973-1990
• Polar Pathfinder Sampler: AVHRR, SMMR-SSM/I, and TOVS Samples and Combined Time Series
• Sea Ice Charts of the Russian Arctic in Gridded Format, 1933-2006
• Sea Ice Concentrations from Nimbus-7 SMMR and DMSP SSM/I Passive Microwave Data
• Sea Ice Index
• Sea Ice Trends and Climatologies from SMMR and SSM/I
• The Dehn Collection of Arctic Sea Ice Charts, 1953-1986
• When the Weather is Uggianaqtuq: Inuit Observations of Environmental Change

SEA ICE ELEVATION

• BYU Scatterometer Climate Record Pathfinder (SCP) Data Sets
• GLAS/ICESat L2 Sea Ice Altimetry Data
• Morphometric Characteristics of Ice and Snow in the Arctic Basin: Aircraft Landing Observations from the Former Soviet Union, 1928-1989

SEA ICE MOTION

• Arctic Ocean Drift Tracks from Ships, Buoys and Manned Research Stations, 1872-1973
• AWI Moored ULS Data, Greenland Sea and Fram Strait, 1991-2002
• BYU Scatterometer Climate Record Pathfinder (SCP) Data Sets
• Coordinated Eastern Arctic Experiment (CEAREX) Data
• Environmental Working Group Joint U.S.-Russian Arctic Sea Ice Atlas
• Estimates of Sea Ice Floe Velocities Characterizing Whaling Seasons Using Satellite Imagery of the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas, Spring 2000 and 2001
• IABP Drifting Buoy Pressure, Temperature, Position, and Interpolated Ice Velocity
• IPAB Antarctic Drifting Buoy Data
• North Pole Environmental Observatory (NPEO) Oceanographic Mooring Data, 2001-2002
• Polar Pathfinder Daily 25 km EASE-Grid Sea Ice Motion Vectors
• Polar Pathfinder Sampler: AVHRR, SMMR-SSM/I, and TOVS Samples and Combined Time Series
• When the Weather is Uggianaqtuq: Inuit Observations of Environmental Change

SNOW DEPTH

• AMSR-E/Aqua Daily L3 12.5 km Tb, Sea Ice Conc., & Snow Depth Polar Grids
• Morphometric Characteristics of Ice and Snow in the Arctic Basin: Aircraft Landing Observations from the Former Soviet Union, 1928-1989

SNOW MELT

• Snow Melt Onset Over Arctic Sea Ice from SMMR and SSM/I Brightness Temperatures

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