Pacific Arctic Sea-Ice Observations from U.S. Federal Logbooks (1900-1938)

• Main Authors: Kevin Wood, Michael Purves, Joan Arthur, Milton Davis, Annette De Havilland, Giulio Forcolin, Stuart Franklin, Randi Heikes
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Arctic Data Center 2018
• Subjects: sea ice; historical; observations; Arctic; Pacific; Pacific Arctic; Sea ice; Alaska; Siberia
• Online Access: https://search.dataone.org/view/urn:uuid:46a63013-590e-4b8b-ac80-100674cb5459

This historical sea ice database is constructed from first-hand observations extracted from the logbooks of U.S. federal vessels operating in the Pacific Arctic, and covers the period from 1900 to 1938. During this period the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service (becoming the U.S. Coast Guard in 1915) made a...