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...