Arctic Ocean Drift Tracks from Ships, Buoys and Manned Research Stations, 1872-1973

Parameters SEA ICE MOTION

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Thirty-four drift tracks in the Arctic Ocean pack ice are collected in a unified tabular data format, one file per track. Data are from drifting ships, manned research stations on ice floes (ice islands) and data buoys. Track names are FRAM (ship, 1893 to 1896), NP-01 through NP-20 (Soviet North Pole stations on ice floes, 1937, 1950, 1954 to 1970), IGY-A and IGY-B (International Geophysical Year ice camps, 1957 to 59), T-3 (Fletcher's Ice Island, 1959 to 1970), ARLIS-II (Arctic Research Laboratory Ice Station II ice camp, 1961 to 1965), BTAE (British Transarctic Expedition, 1968 to 1969), seven buoys deployed during the AIDJEX (Arctic Ice Dynamics Joint Experiment) pilot study (1972), TEGG (Austrian ship Tegetthoff, 1872 to 1873) and St. Anna (Russian ship, 1912 to 1914).

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Data Citation

Colony, R., and A.S. Thorndike. 1984. Arctic Ocean drift tracks from ships, buoys and manned research stations, 1872-1973. Boulder, CO: National Snow and Ice Data Center. Digital media.

See Also

• Sea Ice Products at NSIDC
• Norwegian North Polar Expedition 1893-1896: Oceanographic Data
• Arctic Climatology Project - EWG Arctic Meteorology and Climate Atlas
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