We focus on the SHEBA year, October 1997-October 1998. The rationale for selecting this period is that high quality surface-based data is available at the SHEBA ice camp in the Beaufort/Chukchi Seas and at the ARM Barrow site, aircraft observations were made during a 4-month period in a region over the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas, and several satellite remote sensing groups are focussing on this period. In addition, extensive data is available from the Mackenzie GEWEX Study (MAGS), a series of large-scale hydrological and related atmospheric and land-atmosphere studies to be conducted within the Mackenzie Basin in Canada.
Forcing Data
Important information: An adjustment for skin temperature from sea ice dataset
1. Do not distribute these data to anyone else - this is a research data set and not a standard NSIDC product and they want to know exactly who is using this version of the prototype product.
2. They would like feedback regarding how this estimate of SWE compares with the model output and other data sets that are being used in the model intercomparison project.
Ice data documentation
Example program to read ice data
Validation Data