Sea ice metadata for Billefjorden and Grnfjorden, Svalbard

Description of sea ice conditions in the fjords of Svalbard is crucial for sea transport as well as studies of local climate and climate change. Old observations from the Russian Hydrometeorological stations in the mining settlements Barentsburg (Grnfjorden) and Pyramiden (Billefjorden) have now bee...

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Published in:Czech Polar Reports
Main Authors: Ivanov, Boris V., Sviashchennikov, Pavel N., Zhuravskiy, Danila M., Pavlov, Alexey K., Frland, Eirik J., Isaksen, Ketil
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: Masaryk University Press 2014
Subjects:
Antarc*
Antarctic
Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute
Arctic
Barentsburg
Billefjorden
Climate change
Pyramiden
Sea ice
Svalbard
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/cpr2014-2-13
https://journals.muni.cz/CPR/article/viewFile/12853/11185
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Summary:Description of sea ice conditions in the fjords of Svalbard is crucial for sea transport as well as studies of local climate and climate change. Old observations from the Russian Hydrometeorological stations in the mining settlements Barentsburg (Grnfjorden) and Pyramiden (Billefjorden) have now been digitized. These visual and instrumental observations are archived in the State Archive of Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI) and Murmansk Branch of the Russian Hydrometeorological Service. In this paper, we bring an overview of the sea ice metadata with few examples of yearly changes in sea ice extent.

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