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Monthly Arctic and Antarctic Sea Ice Concentration Grids

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Abstract:

Monthly time series of Arctic and Antarctic sea ice concentrations have been derived from a variety of sources. The polar-stereographic grids have a 60 nautical mile resolution.

Temporal Range:
1901 to 1995
Variables:
Ice Extent
Vertical Levels:
Ground or water surface
Temporal Frequencies:
Every month (Mean)
Data Types:
Grid
Spatial Coverage:
Longitude Range: Westernmost=180W Easternmost=180E
Latitude Range: Southernmost=90S Northernmost=90N Detailed coverage information
Data Contributors:
NASA NSIDC DAAC
NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center
 |  UI-UC/ATMO
Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Publications:
Chapman, W.L. and J.E. Walsh, 1993: Recent variation of sea ice and air temperature in high latitudes. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 74(1), 33-47.
Walsh, J.E., 1977: The incorporation of ice station data into a study of recent Arctic temperature fluctuations. Mon. Wea. Rev., 105, 1527-1535.
Total Volume:
31.06 MB
Data Formats:
ASCII (see dataset documentation)
Metadata Record:
Data License:
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