Coastal exposure index of sea ice in Antarctica

• Other Authors: REID, PHIL (hasPrincipalInvestigator), REID, PHIL (processor), MASSOM, ROB (hasPrincipalInvestigator), MASSOM, ROB (processor), Australian Antarctic Data Centre (publisher)
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Australian Antarctic Data Centre
• Subjects: climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere; oceans; EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > SEA ICE > SEA ICE CONCENTRATION > ICE FRACTION; SEA ICE CONCENTRATION; EARTH SCIENCE; SEA ICE; Coastal Exposure; Computer > Computer; Nimbus-7; GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica; National Snow and Ice Data Center; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://researchdata.ands.org.au/coastal-exposure-index-ice-antarctica/699094; https://doi.org/10.4225/15/57A13939A8312; https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/AAS_4116_Coastal_Exposure; http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-617536

This is a simple index which looks at the 360x1-degree longitudinal wedges around the Antarctic continent to see if there is any sea ice (where sea ice concentration is greater than 15%) to the north of the continent in each of these wedges. The index goes from 0 (sea ice to the north off the continent in every longitude wedge) to 360 (no sea ice around the continent at all. Notes about the spreadsheet: "-" means no data. Satellite data was not available for those years. Otherwise the index goes from 0 through to 360. - Zero means that there is no longitude around the continent where there is coastal exposure. - 18 (for example) means that there are 18 longitudinal wedges around the continent with coastal exposure. This project used the following NASA data to develop the coastal exposure index: Cavalieri, D. J., C. L. Parkinson, P. Gloersen, and H. J. Zwally. 1996, updated yearly. Sea Ice Concentrations from Nimbus-7 SMMR and DMSP SSM/I-SSMIS Passive Microwave Data, Version 1. [1979-2015]. Boulder, Colorado USA. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.5067/8GQ8LZQVL0VL. [2016-05-30]