Western Arctic Ice Drift and Expedition Ship Stations

• Main Authors: National Climatic Data Center/NESDIS/NOAA/U.S. Department Of Commerce, NASA National Snow And Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: UCAR/NCAR - Research Data Archive 2000
• Subjects: EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN WINDS > SURFACE WINDS; EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > CLOUDS > CLOUD PROPERTIES > CLOUD FREQUENCY; EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > SURFACE WINDS; EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > WATER VAPOR INDICATORS > HUMIDITY; EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > SURFACE TEMPERATURE > AIR TEMPERATURE; EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE > SURFACE PRESSURE; Arctic; Arctic Ocean
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5065/d21e-r278; https://rda.ucar.edu/datasets/ds258.2/

Western Arctic ice drifting stations, AIDJEX, ARLIS I, ARLIS II, Ice Station Alpha, Ice Station Charlie, T-3 (called Ice Station Bravo during IGY), and ships Maud and Fram provide surface meteorological data for the Arctic Ocean. These data were collected and organized by NCDC and NSIDC leading to the production of a CDROM.Several different versions of the data are available, extending from the original key entered data to variable subsets and QC versions developed in uniform format for all stations.