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Sea Ice Datasets

Name

Variables

Temporal Coverage

Spatial Coverage

Person/Org

Canadian Cryospheric Information Network

sea ice, snow, permafrost

various, CCIN

Ice Draft from Submarine Sonar

sea ice draft profiles and statistics

cruises, 1976-1998

Arctic Ocean

NSIDC

International Arctic Buoy Program (IABP)

ice motion

Ignatius Rigor, UW/PSC

North Pole Environmental Observatory (NPEO)

sea ice thickness and temperature

Jamie Morison, UW/PSC

SCICEX

ice thickness distributions, ice draft

1997

Drew Rothrock, UW/PSC

Sea Ice Index

average ice conditions, trends in ice concentration

1988-2000.

various, NSIDC

SHEBA

ice motion, stress, mass, deformation, floe size, snow and ice temperture, soot content

Richard Moritz, UW/PSC

The Cryosphere Today

sea ice extent

daily

global

Bill Chapman, U. Illinois

Last update: September 23, 2004

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