26 February, 2002

Polar Data Sets

The project formerly known as WODS (Western Oceanographic Data Set was provided by Jim Swift of Scripps) is finally on line and live on ARCSS Data Coordination Center! It is now titled: Physical and Chemical Properties from Selected Expeditions in the Arctic Ocean.

It can be seen at: http://arcss.colorado.edu/data/arcss077.html

This is the initial release of data for which we had complete meta-data background information. As additional meta-data becomes available other data sets will be added to the Web site.

Of course, you can let me know at any time if you discover any problems.

My thanks to Yarrow Axford, Science/Technical Writer here at the National Snow and Ice Data Center for all her labors and to Terry Haran, the programmer that helped us untangle most of the confusing threads. And to Jim Swift and David Muus who initially sent us this data set collection long ago. I would also like to remember all those that came and went before this project was completed.

Sincerely,

Rudolph (Rudy) J. Dichtl

ARCSS Data Manager

CIRES/National Snow and Ice Data Center

Campus Box 449

Boulder, CO 80309-0449

Phone: 303/492-5532

Fax: 303/492-2468

Email: dichtl@kryos.colorado.edu

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SEARCH: Quantifying Arctic Change/The Unaami Data Collection

We wish to announce the availability of a collection of 85 multidisciplinary time series which represent pan-arctic change over the last 25 years, including: fisheries, biological, terrestrial, oceanic, sea ice, atmospheric, and climate index data. The name Unaami derives from the Yup'ik word for "tomorrow" and is used in the Science Plan for the Study of Environmental Arctic Change (SEARCH) to describe the yet unknown complex suite of interrelated change occurring throughout the Arctic.

The data collection is available through a web site offering interactive access to graphics, metadata, simple correlation matrix calculations, and data download at http://www.unaami.noaa.gov, or from the SEARCH web site. The data was collected from published works and different individuals. Reference to the SEARCH Unaami Data Collection and to the original sources is requested in using this data collection. We are interested in your response and suggestions for additional entries.

This data collection is an activity of the SEARCH Project Office, http://psc.apl.washington.edu/search/index.html and was supported by the NSF Arctic Systems Science program. Information technology support was provided by NOAA ESDIM.