March through August Ice Edge Positions in the Nordic Seas, 1750-2002

Data Contributors DIVINE, DMITRY DICK, CHAD Parameters ICE EDGES Instruments SMMR : SCANNING MULTICHANNEL MICROWAVE RADIOMETER SSM/I : SPECIAL SENSOR MICROWAVE/IMAGER VISUAL OBSERVATIONS

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This product contains ice edge coordinates for the Nordic Seas from 1750 through 2002 for months March through August. Ice edge in this product is defined as the outer boundary of ice having at least 30% ice concentration. Data are derived from publicly available sea ice products and use observational data from ship logbooks, diaries and other sources in addition to more recent satellite data products from the Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer (SMMR) and the Special Sensor Microwave Imager (SSM/I). The data are distributed via FTP in ASCII, JPEG, and shapefile format.

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See Also

• Environmental Working Group Joint U.S.-Russian Sea Ice Atlas
• DMSP SSM/I Daily Polar Gridded Sea Ice Concentrations, June to September 2001
• AARI 10-Day Arctic Ocean EASE-Grid Sea Ice Observations
• Nimbus-7 SMMR Polar Radiances and Arctic and Antarctic Sea Ice Concentrations
• National Ice Center Arctic Sea Ice Charts and Climatologies in Gridded Format
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