Online sea ice data platform: www.seaiceportal.de


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marcel.nicolaus [ at ] awi.de

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There is an increasing public interest in sea ice information from both Polar Regions, which requires up-to-date background information and data sets at different levels for various target groups. In order to serve this interest and need, seaiceportal.de (originally: meereisportal.de) was developed as a comprehensive German knowledge platform on sea ice and its snow cover in the Arctic and Antarctic. It was launched in April 2013. Since then, the content and selection of data sets increased and the data portal received increasing attention, also from the international science community. Meanwhile, we are providing near-real time and archive data of many key parameters of sea ice and its snow cover. The data sets result from measurements acquired by various platforms as well as numerical simulations. Satellite observations of sea ice concentration, freeboard, thickness and drift are available as gridded data sets. Sea ice and snow temperatures and thickness as well as atmospheric parameters are available from autonomous platforms (buoys). Additional ship observations, ice station measurements, and mooring time series are compiled as data collections over the last decade. In parallel, we are continuously extending our meta-data and uncertainty information for all data sets. In addition to the data portal, seaiceportal.de provides general comprehensive background information on sea ice and snow as well as expert statements on recent observations and developments. This content is mostly in German in order to complement the various existing international sites for the German speaking public. We will present the portal, its content and function, but we are also asking for direct user feedback.



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XXXIV SCAR Open Science Conference, 20 Aug 2016 - 30 Aug 2016.
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41616
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Nicolaus, M. , Arndt, S. , Asseng, J. , Bartsch, A. , Bräuer, B. , Fritzsch, B. , Grosfeld, K. , Huntemann, M. , Hendricks, S. , Hiller, W. , Heygster, G. , Krumpen, T. , Melsheimer, C. , Ricker, R. , Treffeisen, R. and Weigelt, M. (2016): Online sea ice data platform: www.seaiceportal.de , XXXIV SCAR Open Science Conference, 20 August 2016 - 30 August 2016 .


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