Daily polynya area and ice production in circumpolar polynya regions in the Arctic for 2002/2003 to 2014/2015

• Main Authors: Preußer, Andreas, Heinemann, Günther, Willmes, Sascha, Paul, Stephan
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2016
• Subjects: Area; Beaufort shelf; BSH; CAA; Canadian Arctic Archipelago; Cape Bathurst Polynya; CBP; CHU; Chukchi Sea; DATE/TIME; derived from MODIS remote sensing data; East-Siberian Fast-ice; East Siberian Sea; ESF; ESS; Event label; FJL; Franz Josef Land; GLN; Greenland North; KAR; Kara Sea; LAP; Laptev Sea; Latitude of event; Longitude of event; Nares Strait/Lincoln Sea; NEWP; North-East Water polynya; North Water polynya; NOW; NSL; Optional event label; Sea ice production; Severnaya Zemlya North; STO; Storfjorden polynya; SVA; Svalbard archipelago; System Laptev-Sea: Transdrift; SZN; TRANSDRIFT; Western Novaya Zemlya; WNZ; Arctic; Arctic Archipelago; Arctic Basin; Chukchi; Greenland; laptev; Lincoln Sea; Nares strait; Novaya Zemlya; Sea ice; Severnaya Zemlya; Storfjorden; Svalbard; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.869294; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.869294

High-resolution MODIS thermal infrared satellite data are used to infer spatial and temporal characteristics of 17 prominent coastal polynya regions over the entire Arctic basin. Thin-ice thickness distributions (< 20 cm) are calculated from MODIS ice-surface temperatures, combined with ECMWF ERA...