Physical oceanographic and climate data used in the creation of Audubon Alaska's Ecological Atlas of the Bering, Chukchi, and Beaufort Seas

• Main Author: Audubon Alaska
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Research Workspace 2019
• Subjects: Oceana; Audubon Alaska; Audubon; Chukotka; Russia; EARTH SCIENCE > CLIMATE INDICATORS > ATMOSPHERIC/OCEAN INDICATORS > FRESH WATER RIVER DISCHARGE; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SEA ICE > POLYNYAS; EARTH SCIENCE > CLIMATE INDICATORS; EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES > ARTHROPODS > CRUSTACEANS > COPEPODS; EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES > ARTHROPODS > CRUSTACEANS > EUPHAUSIIDS (KRILL); EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS > PLANKTON > ZOOPLANKTON; EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS > PLANKTON > PHYTOPLANKTON; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SEA ICE > ICE GROWTH/MELT; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > WATER TEMPERATURE; EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > MARINE ECOSYSTEMS; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS; CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > CANADA; OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN; CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > UNITED STATES OF AMERICA > ALASKA; GEOGRAPHIC REGION > ARCTIC; OCEAN > ARCTIC OCEAN; OCEAN > ARCTIC OCEAN > BEAUFORT SEA; OCEAN > ARCTIC OCEAN > CHUKCHI SEA; OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN > BERING SEA; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Bering Sea; Canada; Chukchi Sea; Pacific; Beaufort Sea; Chukchi; Phytoplankton; Sea ice; Zooplankton; Alaska; Copepods
• Online Access: https://search.dataone.org/view/10.24431_rw1k326_201952103452

This dataset contains a variety of spatial data types describing the physical oceanographic and climatic setting of the Bering, Chukchi, and Beaufort Seas. Specifically, these data describe surface and subsurface currents, approximate freshwater discharge, terrestrial input of organic matter, monthly sea ice advance and retreat extents, and changes in annual and projected averages in sea water temperatures and in the concentrations of sea ice, benthic infaunal biomass, and in plankton, euphausiid, copepod communities. Staff at Audubon Alaska and Oceana used these data to create the maps displayed in 'Chapter 2: Physical Setting', in the 'Ecological Atlas of the Bering, Chukchi, and Beaufort Seas'. This dataset contains four zipped archives of spatial data and metadata and two summary files. The zip files are: 1. ArcticMarine2017_Public_Ch2PhysicalSetting.gdb.zip, compiled by Audubon Alaska staff and used to generate the maps in chapter 2 of the Ecological Atlas, 2. ArcticMarine2017_Public_Ch2_Addition.gdb.zip, compiled by Audubon Alaska staff with additional raster data used to generate the maps in chapter 2 of the Ecological Atlas, ch2_vector-4326, containing csv formatted vector data files along with metadata extracted from the geodatabase, and ch2_raster, containing geotiff formatted raster data and metadata used in the maps in the Atlas but not included in the geodatabase. The summary files are: 1. audubon_EABCBS_ch2_physical_setting_manifest.txt, listing all file path, size, and md5sum hash value for each file in each of the zip files, 2. audubon_EABCBS_ch2_physical_setting_README.txt, providing basic, human-readable metadata about the dataset, 3. audubon_EABCBS_ch2_physical_setting_data_sources.pdf, listing the data sources used for each map in chapter 6 of the atlas, and 4. audubon_EABCBS_data_sources_appendix.csv, listing the sources used for each spatial synthesis data product created by Audubon Alaska and then used to generate the maps in chapter 6, and listed in the data sources pdf. These files contain only the data used in the Atlas and deemed appropriate for public release. Certain data deemed sensitive were not included in these publicly available data archives.