DATA

Summaries of data sets produced by PSC researchers. Links provide further information and data access.

Data

International Arctic Buoy Programme Data

Decription:	IABP data
Geographic Area:	Arctic Ocean
Time Period:	1979 to present
Parameters:	Ice Velocity, Sea Level Pressure, and Surface Air Temperature
Data Access:	http://iabp.apl.washington.edu/data.html

PIOMAS Arctic Sea Ice Volume Data

Decription:	PIOMAS Total Arctic Sea Ice Volume Data
Geographic Area:	Ice-covered ocean north of 49N
Time Period:	1979 – present
Parameters:	Total Arctic Ice Volume, daily
Data Access:	PIOMAS Daily Ice Volume Data, 1979-present

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Bering Strait Data

Decription:	Year-round Mooring data
Geographic Area:	Bering Strait
Time Period:	1990 to present
Parameters:	CTD data from mooring servicing cruises from 1990 to present, multiple campaigns
Data Access:	http://psc.apl.washington.edu/HLD/#DATA_ACCESS%20

Unified Sea Ice Thickness Climate Data Record

Description:	Measurements of ice draft and freeboard that can be used infer sea ice thickness
Geographic Area:	Arctic Ocean, Fram Strait
Time Period:	1975 – present
Parameters:	sea ice draft, sea ice freeboard, sea ice thickness (mean, standard deviation, and full distributions for one month periods or 50-km segments)
Data Access:	http://psc.apl.washington.edu/sea_ice_cdr/data_tables.html

HOTRAX Data Set

Description:	Morphological and optical characteristics of the summer Arctic sea ice cover during the Healy Oden TRans Arctic EXpedition (HOTRAX)
Geographic Area:	Arctic Basin transect: 76 2.119N 157 55.807 W to 80 28.254 N 7 34.4 E
Time Period:	12 Aug – 26 Sept 2005
Parameters:	Snow depth, ice thickness, light transmission,soot content, incident solar irradiance, spectral reflectance, surface temperature, ice watch, aerial photographs, mass balance
Data Access:	http://www.arcticice.org/hotraxweb/datafiles.htm

TOVS Polar Pathfinder Data Set (Path-P)

Description:	Satellite derived Atmospheric Parameters from TOVS (HIRS/MSU) for the polar regions
Geographic Area:	Arctic: North of 60 Degrees, Antarctic: South of 50 Degrees
Time Period:	1979-2005. Daily and monthly averages
Parameters:	Temperature, Humidity Profiles, Cloud Fraction, Height
Data Access:	http://psc.apl.washington.edu/nonwp_projects/pathp/pathp.html

Polar Science Center Hydrographic Climatology

Description:	Gridded, global climatological fields of ocean temperature and salinity with a high-quality Arctic Ocean
Geographic Area:	Global
Time Period:	Averaged annual, seasonal, and monthly means; for the Arctic Ocean, these averages are for the time period 1950-1990; everywhere else the averages span the entire historical record
Parameters:	Ocean temperature and salinity
Data Access:	http://psc.apl.washington.edu/POLES/PHC2/DownloadP3.html

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Chukchi Sea Data

Description:	Year-round Mooring data 1990-1991 Throughout the Chukchi Sea
Geographic Area:	Chukchi Sea
Time Period:	CTD data from 1990 and 1991 throughout the Chukchi Sea, Year-round Mooring data 2002-2004 Northern Chukchi
Parameters:
Data Access:	http://psc.apl.washington.edu/HLD/#DATA_ACCESS%20

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Chukchi Borderland

Description:	Mooring, XBT,CBT and chemistry data from the Chukchi Borderland
Geographic Area:	Chukchi Borderland
Time Period:	2002
Parameters:	XBT, CTD, mooring
Data Access:	http://psc.apl.washington.edu/HLD/#DATA_ACCESS