Data Table

Note new data formats !

An archive version of the data is at the National Snow and Ice Data Center. The PSC version (this web site) will be updated as new data becomes available while the NSIDC version will updated about once a year. The NSIDC web site for this data set is http://dx.doi.org/10.7265/N5D50JXV.

Source ID

Years

Location
Samples

Summaries

Distributions

Parameter

Summary Variables

Version
Source/CDR update

2001-2010 North Pole
65
Draft
  • water temperature
  • Instrument depth
  • Ice draft
 
2003-2017 Beaufort Sea
511
Draft
  • Water temperature
  • Instrument depth
  • Ice draft
 
1990-2003 Eastern Beaufort
382
Draft
  • water temperature
  • Instrument depth
  • Ice draft
 
2003-2005 Chukchi Sea
26
Draft
  • Water temperature
  • Instrument depth
  • Ice draft
 

1960-2005

Arctic Ocean

844

X

X

Draft
  • Water temperature
  • Instrument depth
  • Ice draft
2016-03-09
1986-2014 Arctic Ocean
1124
Draft
  • Water temperature
  • Instrument depth
  • Ice draft
2018-11-21
US-Subs-Hi 1960, 1962 Arctic Ocean 309 X Not Available
(tabulated at 50km)
Draft
  • Ice Concentration
  • Instrument depth
  • Ice draft
Transcribed from LeShack 1980
1987,1991 Arctic Ocean
149
Draft
  • Water temperature
  • Instrument depth
  • Ice draft
 
1976 Arctic Ocean
27
Draft
  • Water temperature
  • Instrument depth
  • Ice draft
 
1991-2002 Greenland Sea
134
Draft
  • Water temperature
  • Instrument depth
  • Ice draft
 
2001-2015 Arctic Ocean
455
Snow+Ice
  • none
  • Instrument height
  • Ice plus snow thickness
2016-05-16
2003-2008 Arctic Ocean
29452
Thickness
  • none
  • Freeboard
  • Ice thickness
 
2003-2007 Lancaster Sound
36
Draft
  • water temperature
  • Instrument depth
  • Ice draft
 
1947-2013

Canadian Archipelego, coastal stations

6242
Not Available
Thickness
  • none
  • Snow depth
  • Ice thickness
 
2006-2008 Davis Strait
67
Draft
  • water temperature
  • Instrument depth
  • Ice draft
 
2009-2013 Arctic Ocean
933
Thickness
  • Snow depth
  • Thickness uncertainty
  • Ice thickness

Version 2
IDCSI4.001/ 20160310

IceBridge-QL

Quicklook

2012-2019 Arctic Ocean
1518
Thickness
  • Snow depth
  • Thickness uncertainty
  • Ice thickness

Quicklook Product
Version 1
IDCSI2.001 and IDCS4 (for 2016-19)
Retrieved 20190920

2003-2008 Antarctica
12432
Not Available
Thickness
  • none
  • Thickness uncertainty
  • Ice thickness
 
2002-2012 Antarctica
757
Draft
  • water temperature
  • instrument depth
  • Ice draft
 
Cryosat-AWI

2010(Nov)

2018(Oct)

Arctic 170522 Not Available Thickness
  • Random Thickness Uncertainty
  • Snow Depth
  • Ice Thickness

AWI vers. 2.1
20181118
(download)

ALL Data
tar file

1947-2019 ALL  
Draft/Thickness see individual files 20181130
All Data NetCDF 1947-2019 ALL   Not Available Variables from input text files mapped to correctly named variable netcdf variables have dimension [4,time] where the first dimension corresponds to Mean,Min,Max,Sigma 20181130

 

Click on an X to get the file from each source.

Each summary file has data on up to three different variables which are listed in the last column.

 

Metadata:
Platform_metadata, This file has a line for each mooring, campaign, or station with the time and position ranges for that platform and the number of point measurements and aggregate samples.


Data formats:

NetCDf summary file :

NetCDF 4 data file was generated from individual text files. Variables from the text files are renamed to named netCDF variables that provide the relevant information for a particular source. Long_name attribute provides more detailed information. This means that for sources where the variable is not available, the values are set to missing (NaN). Data variables are encoded as 4 x Nobs arrays where the first dimension refers to the "Mean, Min, Max, and Standard Deviation" of the variable. The second dimension refers to the indidual observation. It is not ordered by time.

ASCII Tables:

Draft, Thickness, or Freeboard Summaries
Each file begins with one header line identifying the variables. The variables are listed in the table below. The header and data formats are
hdr_fmt = '( 2a12, a10, 5a7, 6a8, a7, a10, 4(4a10) ) '
data_fmt = '( 2a12, i10, i7,3f7.1,i7, 6f8.2, i7, i10, 4(4f10.2) )'


Variables in Summary Files
Variable
Description
source
Source code name
platform Platform code name
index unique index for the observation
year Year
mean_yday Mean year day (the year begins with yday=1.000)
min_yday minimum day of year
max_yday maximum day of year
month Month (1-12)
lat Mean latitude (deg N)
lon Mean longitude (deg E)
min_lat minimum latitude
max_lat maximum latitude
min_lon minimum longitude
max_lon maximum longitude
n_days / length number of days with observations (moorings) / or Length of the track (km), excluding gaps
nsamps Number of pointsamples
mean_x Mean x (depends on the data set, see the data table above)
min_x Minimum x
max_x Maximum x
sd_x Standard Deviation of x
mean_y Mean y (depends on the data set, see the data table above)
min_y Minimum y
max_y Maximum y
sd_y Standard Deviation of y
mean_z Mean ice draft or thickness (m), depends on the data set
min_z Minimum
max_z Maximum
sd_z Standard deviation

 

Ice Thickness Distribution Files
Each file begins with one header line identifying the variables. The variables are listed in the table below with typical values of the number of bins, bin width, and first bin in brackets. The header and data formats are
hdr_fmt = '( 2a12, a10, 5a7, 6a8, a7, a10, a6, 8a7)'
data_fmt = '( 2a12, i10, i7,3f7.1,i7, 6f8.2, i7, i10, i6,2f7.2, 300f7.4 )'

 

Variables in Distribution Files
Variable
Description
Source Source code name
platform Platfrom code name
index Unique index for the observation
(same as in the summary files)
mean_yday Mean year day (the year begins with yday=1.000)
min_yday minimum day of year
max_yday maximum day of year
month Month (1-12)
lat Mean latitude (deg N)
lon Mean longitude (deg E)
min_lat minimum latitude
max_lat maximum latitude
min_lon minimum longitude
max_lon maximum longitude
n_days / length number of days with observations (moorings) or Length of the track (km), excluding gaps
nsamps Number of point samples
nbins Number of bins in the distribution [300]
width Width of bins (m) (0.10]
first Center of first bin (m) [0.00]
distribution PDF as fraction (nbins values)

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