Sea Ice Motion in the Arctic Ocean Switchyard

• Main Author: Ronald Kwok
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Arctic Data Center 2012
• Subjects: EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > SEA ICE > SEA ICE MOTION; EARTH REMOTE SENSING INSTRUMENTS > PASSIVE REMOTE SENSING > SPECTROMETERS/RADIOMETERS > IMAGING SPECTROMETERS/RADIOMETERS > AMSR-E > ADVANCED MICROWAVE SCANNING RADIOMETER-EOS; SATELLITE; GRID; DAILY TO WEEKLY; oceans; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Greenland; North Pole; Beaufort Sea; Canadian Archipelago; Fram Strait; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.18739/A2P89J

This dataset provides sea ice motion vectors in the Switchyard region of the Arctic Ocean, utilizing measurements from the 89V channel of the AMSR-E instrument on the Aqua platform. The daily fields cover the period of October 1, 2002 through December 31, 2008. They are on a 100km resolution grid in Special Sensor Microwave Imager (SSMI) x/y coordinates, from the North Pole down to the Canadian Archipelago and Greenland coasts, between 0 degrees longitude and 120 degrees west longitude. These ice motion vectors provide measurements of ice circulation and flux in the switchyard region, showing the balance of the sea ice flow going into the Fram Strait and exiting the Arctic Ocean and that flowing toward the Beaufort Sea and remaining within the Arctic system.