Name | Variables | Temporal Coverage | Spatial Coverage | Person Organization |
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Polar Hydrographic Climatology (PHC) | temperature and salinity | 1998-present; monthly, seasonal and annual averages | gridded data of Arctic Ocean and environs | Michael Steele UW/PSC |
International Arctic Buoy Program (IABP) | position data of real-time sea level pressure, ocean salinity and temperture | 1997-present; 12 hourly | drifting Arctic buoys | Ignatius Rigor UW/PSC |
North Pole Environmental Observatory (NPEO) | ocean salinity, sea ice thickness and temperature | 2000-present | central basin of the Arctic Ocean | Jamie Morison UW/PSC |
Polar Exchange at the Sea Surface (POLES) | surface air temperature | Drew Rothrock UW/PSC |
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Russian Hydrographic Data | salinity, depth, and temperature | Russian North Pole Station and Sever Program, 1949-1989; 148 stations | Minimum Latitude: 70.000000, Minimum Longitude: -180.000000; Maximum Latitude: 90.000000, Maximum Longitude: 180.000000 (within 100 kilometers of the SHEBA drift track) |
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SHEBA | doppler current profiles, biogeochemical, CTD time series, leads, turbulence, satellite images, surface measurements of freezing leads | 1997-1998 | Icebreaker frozen into the Arctic pack ice and allowed to drift | Richard Moritz UW/PSC |
The Environmental Working Group Arctic Atlases on CD–ROM | salinity, temperture, density and dybamic height, Atlantic water layer depth and profiles & transects | 1950-1989; winter and summer | Arctic and Atlantic | various NSIDC |