Name

Variables

Temporal Coverage

Spatial Coverage

Person/Org

Polar Hydrographic Climatology (PHC)

temperature and salinity

1998-present; monthly, seasonal and annual averages

gridded data of Arctic Ocean and environs

Michael Steele, UW/PSC

International Arctic Buoy Program (IABP)

position data of real-time sea level pressure, ocean salinity and temperture

1997- present; 12 hourly

drifting Arctic buoys

Ignatius Rigor, UW/PSC

North Pole Environmental Observatory (NPEO)

ocean salinity, sea ice thickness and temperature

2000-present

central basin of the Arctic Ocean

Jamie Morison, UW/PSC

Polar Exchange at the Sea Surface (POLES)

Russian Hydrographic Data

salinity, depth, and temperature

Russian North Pole Station and Sever Program, 1949-1989; 148 stations

Minimum Latitude: 70.000000, Minimum Longitude: -180.000000; Maximum Latitude: 90.000000, Maximum Longitude: 180.000000
(within 100 kilometers of the SHEBA drift track)

SHEBA

doppler current profiles, biogeochemical, CTD time series, leads, turbulence, satellite images, surface measurements of freezing leads

1997-1998

Icebreaker frozen into the Arctic pack ice and allowed to drift

Richard Moritz, UW/PSC

The Environmental Working Group
Arctic Atlases on CD–ROM

salinity, temperture, density and dybamic height, Atlantic water layer depth and profiles & transects

1950-1989; winter and summer

Arctic and Atlantic

various/NSIDC

Last update: September 23, 2004

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