New Online Resource Available
Early-Release Data on Ice Thickness, Snow Depth, and Ice Characteristics
Study of Environmental Arctic Change (SEARCH)
The full webpage, including contact information, is available at:
http://www.arcus.org/search/seaiceoutlook/ice-thickness-data
A new webpage, developed through the Study of Environmental Arctic
Change (SEARCH), provides access to early-release datasets on ice
thickness, snow depth, and ice characteristics collected in March/April
of 2012 in the North American Arctic. The webpage is available at:
http://www.arcus.org/search/seaiceoutlook/ice-thickness-data.
Data were obtained by different projects, centering around the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Operation IceBridge survey
flights with key contributions from National Science Foundation
(NSF)-funded activities of the interagency Arctic Observing Network
(AON).
The goal of this early release of preliminary data is to provide timely
information to the international sea-ice prediction community for
initialization of seasonal ice predictions, in particular for the North
American arctic sector. This work, including the contributions by NASA's
Operation IceBridge and AON projects, in particular the Seasonal Ice
Zone Observing Network (SIZONet) project, is motivated by SEARCH's
Arctic Sea Ice Outlook, an international activity for the synthesis and
dissemination of seasonal ice projections:
http://www.arcus.org/search/seaiceoutlook/index.php.
The data release includes contributions from different U.S. federal
agency, private industry, and international partners to provide timely
sea-ice data of broader relevance in the North American Arctic. The data
acquisition reflects collaboration with local government and
co-management boards to avoid interfering with subsistence hunting
activities and provide information of relevance to coastal communities.
Datasets available through this webpage include:
1. NASA Operation IceBridge Quicklook Data
2. Seasonal Ice Zone Observing Network (SIZONet) Airborne
Electromagnetic induction (EM) Ice Thickness Surveys Quicklook Data
3. Fugro Earth Data, Inc. Airborne P-band Synthetic Aperture Radar
(SAR) Survey Quicklook Data
4. Naval Research Laboratory Tandem Flight Airborne LiDAR and Radar
Altimeter Surveys
5. SIZONet Surface-based EM Survey Data (Barrow Landfast Ice Region
and Drifting Multiyear Ice Site)
6. Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL)-Arctic
Observing Network Ice Mass-balance Buoy Data
7. SIZONet Snow and Ice Property Measurements
The full webpage, including contact information, is available at:
http://www.arcus.org/search/seaiceoutlook/ice-thickness-data.
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