Summaries of data sets produced by PSC researchers. Links provide further information and data access.
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Dataset Highlight: Investigating Rotten Ice, with Dr. Karen Junge
The Arctic Data Center, supported by NSF, has highlighted Karen Junge’s work investigating rotten ice. Data has been collected on both the physical and biological properties of rotten ice and is available from the center.
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Melt Pond Fraction Statistics From High Resolution Satellite (MEDEA) Images
MEDEA Melt Pond Fraction Data Set For the purpose of sea ice model validation we have compiled a data set of melt pond statistics. The data set was compiled by Melinda Webster (now NASA GSFC) during a post-doc appointment at the Polar Science Center/APL/UW. The data set is generated from previously classified high resolution visible band satellite images following Webster et al. 2015. The data set contains two separate sets, one covering the periods of 1999-2014 which was derived by Melinda (see Webster et al. 2015 for details), the other was derived by Florence Fetterer (NSIDC) using a supervised classification technique and covers…
read more »Global Sea Ice (GIOMAS) Data Sets
Decription: Globle Ice-Ocean Modeling and Assimilation System Data Geographic Area:
Global Time Period: 1979 – present Parameters: Ice thickness, concentration, ocean surface temperature, salinity, velocity, and others. Data Access:
Global Sea Ice (GIOMAS) Data Sets PIOMAS Monthly Variables on Model Grid
Decription: PIOMAS variables on curvilinear model grid Geographic Area:
Ice-covered ocean north of 49N Time Period: 1979 – present Parameters: ice thickness, concentration, and others Data Access:
PIOMAS Data on Model Grid, 1979-present 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 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
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read more »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:
Contact Don Perovich 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 recordParameters: Ocean temperature and salinity Data Access:
http://psc.apl.washington.edu/POLES/PHC2/DownloadP3.html 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 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