NOAA@NSIDC's SEARCH and IPY Activities
The NOAA Arctic Research Program funded us to provide data management support
for some of its Study of Environmental Arctic Change (SEARCH) activities. NOAA
SEARCH activities are the Arctic Research Program's contribution to the International
Polar Year (IPY).
We are also involved in IPY projects apart from SEARCH. These are
- NOAA's Data, Information, and Change Detection Strategy for the IPY (NOAA
Data Management and Change Detection - ID 879)
- Accessing Grey Literature of the Polar Regions (GreyLit - ID 162)
- International Polar Year (IPY) Data and Information Service (DIS) for Distributed
Data Management (IPY DIS - ID 49), as a consortium member
Descriptions can be found by searching for the projects in the IPY Expressions
of Intent database. Also see NSIDC's IPY page.
For SEARCH, we have assessed data relevant to SEARCH reanalysis and change
detection activities, collected data from a wide variety of sources, and facilitated
the SEARCH research community's access to the data. In 2003 and 2004, we inventoried
potential data sources with an emphasis on precipitation. In 2004 and 2005,
we focused on aggregating data and providing consistent, up-to-date data streams
for climate indicators. In 2006, we continued this work and began to explore
data management support of Arctic Research Program funded activities such as
the International Arctic System for Observing the Atmosphere (IASOA).
CADIS seeks to provide near-real-time data delivery, a repository for data
storage, a portal for data discovery, and tools to manipulate data. CADIS will
focus on supporting the Arctic Observing Network and Study of Environmental
Arctic Change programs, but will also be a step toward comprehensive long-term
Arctic data management. The project is a joint effort of the University Corporation
for Atmospheric Research, the National Center for Atmospheric Research, and
NSIDC.
Cryospheric Climate Indicators
Continuous records of soil temperature, vegetation greenness, and sea ice
extent are used to give an at-a-glance picture of a changing Arctic. These Cryospheric
Climate Indicators in the Arctic supplement the indicators on the NOAA
Arctic Change site. (Visit the Near-Realtime
Arctic Change Indicator Website).
Precipitation Data
We inventoried data sets, documented overlap between them, and acquired and
published precipitation data.
See the Precipitation
Data Set Inventory, a .doc file. The "NSIDC Reference" column
in this table of data sets is used in station lists and the data set overlap
analysis.
See Precipitation Data
Set Station Lists and Overlap Analysis for detailed information on data
set coverage.
Precipitation data sets published as part of this work are:
Data Management for IASOA
These draft data management pages are
a starting point for data management planning.
Publications
Fetterer, F., and K. Knowles. 2002, updated 2006. Sea
ice index. Boulder, CO: National Snow and Ice Data Center. Digital media.
Fetterer, F., and K. Knowles. 2004. Sea ice index monitors polar ice extent,
Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Society, 85, 163.
Fetterer, F. and M. Savoie. In preparation. A Snow Off Day time Series for
the NSIDC Cryospheric Climate Indicators Web Site. NSIDC Special Report 14.
Boulder, CO, USA: National Snow and Ice Data Center.
Fetterer, F., and I. Smolyar. 2005. On the Creation of Environmental Data
Sets for the Arctic Region, in Arctic Research of the United States, NSF05-39,
Vo1. 19, 15 pp.
National Snow and Ice Data Center, compiler. 2006. Monthly mean precipitation
sums at Russian Arctic stations, 1966-1990. Boulder, Colorado USA: National
Snow and Ice Data Center. Digital media.
National Snow and Ice Data Center. 2003. Meteorological data from the Russian
Arctic, 1961-2000. Compiled by V. Radionov. Boulder, CO: National Snow and
Ice Data Center. Digital media.
Overland, J., F. Fetterer, D. McGuire, J. Richter-Menge, J. Walsh. 2003. SEARCH
Workshop on Large-Scale Atmosphere-Cryosphere Observations, Bulletin of the
American Meteorological Society, DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-84-8-1077, 1077-1082. (Also
available here).
Overland, J., F. Fetterer, D. McGuire, J. Richter-Menge, and J. Walsh, 2002.
SEARCH Workshop on Large-Scale Atmosphere/Cryosphere Observations, NOAA OAR
Special Report Contribution 2452, Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory Seattle,
WA, 82 pp.
Radionov, V.F., Ye. I. Aleksandrov, P.N. Svyashchennikov, and F. Fetterer.
2004. Daily precipitation sums at coastal and island Russian Arctic stations,
1940-1990. Boulder, CO: National Snow and Ice Data Center. Digital media.
Progress Reports
Final Report, September
2006
NOAA SEARCH review and workshop, May 2004 (ppt)
Progress, August
-December 2003
Progress, June -
July 2003
Last updated 22 May 2007 - FF
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