Non-satellite sea ice meta information and links

1. META DATA

CLIMAS Non-satellite Sea Ice Datasets

Title:

Ice area data

Owner:

Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, St.Petersburg, Russia

Contact:

Svetlana Kuzmina
Nansen International Environmental and Remote Sencing Center
Bolshaya Monetnaya str. 26/28, St-Petersburg, 197101, Russia.
Tel.: +7-812-234-3924, Fax: +7-812-234-3865,
e-mail: svetlana.kuzmina@niersc.spb.

Availability:

Available for non-commercial use

Use:

For estimation of the Arctic climate change and comparison with model simulations

Parameters contained:

  1. Annual ice area for North Europe Basin (thousand km2),
  2. Annual ice area for Arctic Ocean missing Canadian Arctic Archipelago and the Beaufort and Chukchi Sea (“Russian Arctic”) (thousand km2),
  3. Monthly (August) ice area for Siberian Arctic waters (thousand km2)

Spatial coverage:

  1. North Europe Basin,
  2. “Russian Arctic”
  3. Siberian Arctic waters

Temporal coverage:

North European Basin 1900-1999
“Russian Arctic” 1900-1999
Siberian Arctic waters 1923-1999

Spatial resolution:

Spatially averaged

Temporal resolution:

Annual and monthly means

Data format(s):

MDB

Amount:

306 KB

Other information:

References:
Zakharov V.F. Cooling of the Arctic and the ice cover of the Arctic Seas. – Proc./ AARI, V. 337, 1976. – 96 p.
Zakharov V.F. World Ocean and Pleistocene glacial epochs. – L., Gidrometeoizdat, 1978, - 64 p.
Zakharov V.F. Ice of the Arctic and current natural processes. - L., Gidrometeoizdat, 1981, - 136 p.
Zakharov V.F. Sea ice and climate. – In: Interaction of glaciation with the atmosphere and the ocean, M. Izd-vo Nauka, 1987, p. 66-90.
Zakharov V.F. Sea ice in the climatic system. St. Petersburg, Gidrometeoizdat, 1996, - 214 p.

 

2. DATA FILES

File name

Content

NEBice.mdb

Annual mean area, covered with ice in North European Basin (NEB)

SIBERice.mdb

Ice area in Siberia Arctic waters at the second half of August

RUSice.mdb

Annual mean ice area over much of Arctic Ocean, missing only Canadian Arctic Archipelago (“Russian Arctic”)

 

3. RESULTS OF STATISTICAL ANALYSIS IN ILLUSTRATIONS

File name

Content

Map.gif

Schematic location of the boundaries of the Arctic Ocean seas.

NEBice.htm

Annual mean area, covered with ice in North European Basin (NEB)

SiberIce.htm

Ice area in Siberia Arctic waters at the second half of August

RusIce.htm

Annual mean ice area over much of Arctic Ocean, missing only Canadian Arctic Archipelago (“Russian Arctic”)

 

4. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS

description

Content

regional

Analysis of regional features in sea ice extent in the Arctic Ocean from Russian data

global

Variations of Arctic sea ice extent in the 20th century from dataset based on available Russian observations