References
The following references are either about the NIC operational charts or make use of them, either directly or indirectly. Some papers related to NIC operations and Canadian Ice Service charts, or the use of them in research, are included as well.
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.
Agnew, T., and S. Howell. 2002. Comparison of digitized Canadian ice charts and passive microwave sea-ice concentrations. IGARSS 2002, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Conference Proceedings. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel5/7969/22036/01024996.pdf. Accessed 25 September 2006.
Agnew, T., and S. Howell. 2003. The use of operational ice charts for evaluating passive microwave ice concentration data, Atmosphere-Ocean 41 (4), 317-331.
Bertoia, C., J. Falkingham and F. Fetterer. 1998. Polar SAR data for operational sea ice mapping. In Analysis of SAR Data of the Polar Oceans. Edited by C. Tsatsoulis and R. Kwok, 201-234. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
Bertoia, C., M. Manore, and H. S. Andersen. 2001. Mapping ice covered waters from space. Backscatter 12 (3) , 14-22.
Brodzik, M. J. and K. W. Knowles. 2002. "EASE-Grid: a versatile set of equal-area projections and grids." In M. Goodchild, ed. Discrete Global Grids. Santa Barbara, CA, USA: National Center for Geographic Information & Analysis.
Canadian Ice Service. 1992. Ice thickness climatology, 1961 - 1990 normals. Minis. Supply Serv. Can. En. 57-28. Can. Commun. Group, Ottawa, Ont. 277 pp.
Canadian Ice Service, 1971-2000: Canadian Digital Regional Ice Charts, Ottawa, Ont., unpublished.
Carrieres, T. 2000. Documentation for the Canadian Ice Service digital sea ice database. Can. Ice Serv., Ottawa, Ontario. 49 pp.
Comiso, J. C., and R. Kwok. 1996. Surface and radiative characteristics of the summer Arctic sea ice cover from multi-sensor satellite observations. Journal of Geophysical Research 101 (C12): 28, 397-28, 416.
DeAbreu, R. J. Yackel, D. Barber, M. Arkett. 2001. Operational satellite sensing of Arctic first-year sea ice melt. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing 27(5), 487-501.
Dedrick, K., K. Partington, M. Van Woert, C. A. Bertoia, and D. Benner. 2001. U. S. National/Naval Ice Center Digital Sea Ice Data and Climatology. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing 27(5), 457-475.
Environment Canada, 2005. Manual of Standard Procedures for Observing and Reporting Ice Conditions (MANICE). Issuing authority: Assistant Deputy Minister, Meteorological Service of Canada. Available online. (http://ice-glaces.ec.gc.ca/App/WsvPageDsp.cfm?ID=172&LnId=23&Lang=eng)
Fetterer, F., compiler. 2006. A selection of documentation related to National Ice Center sea ice charts in digital format. NSIDC Special Report 13. Boulder, CO, USA: National Snow and Ice Data Center.
Fetterer, F., and V. Troisi. 1997. AARI 10-Day Arctic Ocean EASE-Grid sea ice observations. Boulder, CO, USA: National Snow and Ice Data Center. Digital media.
Fetterer, F., and N. Untersteiner. 1998. Observations of melt ponds on Arctic sea ice. Journal of Geophysical Research 103 (C11): 24, 821-24, 835.
Geiger, C. 2006. Propagation of uncertainties in sea ice thickness calculations from basin-scale operational observations: A report prepared for the International Ice Charting Working Group and the National/Naval Ice Center. ERDC/CRREL TR-06-16. 39 pp.
Jeffers, S., T. A. Agnerw, B. T. Alt, R. De Abreu and S. McCourt. 2001. Investigating the anomalous sea ice conditions in the Canadian High Arctic (Queen Elizabeth Islands) during summer of 1998. Annals of Glaciology 33, 507-512.
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission. 2004. SIGRID-3 : a vector archive format for sea ice charts / developed by the International Ice Charting Working Group's ad hoc format team for the WMO Global Digital Sea Ice Data Bank Project. (Geneva) : World Meteorological Organization ; (Paris) : Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO.
Knight, R. W. 1984. Introduction to a new sea-ice database. Annals of Glaciology 5. (Reproduced in NSIDC Special Report 13).
Kokaly, R. F. 1996. Methods for regridding AARI data in SIGRID format to the EASE-Grid projection. NSIDC Special Report 9.
Kokaly, R.F. 1996. NSIDC Special Report 6: An evaluation of the results from using nearest neighbor and area min/max resampling methods to regrid AARI digitized sea ice charts to EASE-Grid.
Kwok, R. 2002. Sea ice concentration estimates from satellite passive microwave radiometry and openings from SAR ice motion. Geophysical Research Letters 29 (9): 10.1029/202GL014787.
Maillard, P. and D. A. Clausi. 2005. Operational map-guided classification of SAR sea ice imagery. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol 43, No. 12, pp 2940-2951, doi 10.1109/TGRS.2005.857897
McKenna, P., and W. N. Meier. 2002. SSM/I sea ice algorithm inter-comparison: Operational case studies from the National Ice Center, IGARSS Proceedings, INT_A32_04, Toronto, 24-28 June 2002.
Meier, W. N, M. L. van Woert, and C. Bertoia. 2001. Evaluation of operational SSM/I ice concentration algorithms, Ann. Glaciology, 33, 102-108.
Meier, Walter, 2005. Comparison of Passive Microwave Ice Concentration Algorithm Retrievals With AVHRR Imagery in Arctic Peripheral Seas. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol 40, No. 6, pp 1324-1334.
Meier, W. N., F. Fetterer, C. Fowler, P. Clemente-Colón, T. Street, Operational sea ice charts: An integrated data product suitable for observing long-term changes in Arctic sea ice?, poster presented at teh AGU Fall Meeting, 2006, and available on the NSIDC Posters and Presentations page.
Meier, W. N, M. L. van Woert, and C. Bertoia. 2001. Evaluation of operational SSM/I ice concentration algorithms, Ann. Glaciology, 33, 102-108.
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microwave products: a case study in the Barents Sea during October 2001. Ice in the Environment: Proceedings of the 16th IAHR International Symposium on Ice, Dunedin, New Zealand, 2nd-6th December 2002, International Association of Hydraulic Engineering and Research
Melling, H. 2002. Sea ice of the northern Canadian Arctic Archipelago. J. Geophys. Res., 107, C11, 3181, doi:10.1029/2001JC001102.
Partington, K., T. Flynn, D. Lamb, C. Bertoia, and K. Dedrick., 2003. Late twentieth century Northern Hemisphere sea-ice record from U.S. National Ice Center ice charts, J. Geophys. Res., 108, C11, 3343, doi:10.1029/2002JC001623.
Rayner, N. A., D. E. Parker, E. B. Horton, C. K. Folland, L.V. Alexander, D. P. Rowell, E. C. Kent, and A. Kaplan. 2003. Global analysis of sea surface temperature, sea ice, and night marine air temperature since the late nineteenth century. Journal of Geophysical Research. 108 (D14). doi:10.1029/2002JD002670.
Ropelewski, C. F. 1983. Spatial and temporal variations in Antarctic sea ice (1973-82). Journal of Climate and Applied Meteorology, vol 22, 470-473.
Singarayer, J. S., P. J. Valdes, and J. L. Bamber. 2005. The atmospheric impact of uncertainties in recent Arctic sea ice reconstructions, Journal of Climate, 18, 3996-4012.
van Woert., M. 2002. U. S. Navy operational sea ice remote sensing. IGARSS Proceedings, INT_A32_04, Toronto, 24-28 June 2002.
Willis, Z. M, Foster, C. Bertoia, and K. Dedrick. 2000. National Ice Center/Naval Ice Center support to submarine operations Undersea Warfare: Issue 8, pp. 18-21.
World Meteorological Organization (WMO). 1970. WMO sea-ice nomenclature= Nomenclature OMM des glaces en mer= (Nomenklatura VMO po morskomu l«du)= Nomenclatura de la OMM del hielo marino. Terminology, codes and illustrated glossary. Geneva: Secretariat of the World Meteorological Organization.
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Smith, O. P. 2000. Observers Guide to Sea Ice. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Hazardous Materials Response Division, Office of Response and Restoration: http://response.restoration.noaa.gov/book_shelf/695_seaice.pdf.