Sea ice metadata for Billefjorden and Grnfjorden, Svalbard

Boris V. Ivanov; Pavel N. Sviashchennikov; Danila M. Zhuravskiy; Alexey K. Pavlov; Eirik J. Frland; Ketil Isaksen

doi:10.5817/CPR2014-2-13

Sea ice metadata for Billefjorden and Grnfjorden, Svalbard

Vol.4,No.2(2014)

Boris V. Ivanov Pavel N. Sviashchennikov Danila M. Zhuravskiy Alexey K. Pavlov Eirik J. Frland Ketil Isaksen

https://doi.org/10.5817/CPR2014-2-13

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Abstract

Description of sea ice conditions in the fjords of Svalbard is crucial for sea transport as well as studies of local climate and climate change. Old observations from the Russian Hydrometeorological stations in the mining settlements Barentsburg (Grnfjorden) and Pyramiden (Billefjorden) have now been digitized. These visual and instrumental observations are archived in the State Archive of Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI) and Murmansk Branch of the Russian Hydrometeorological Service. In this paper, we bring an overview of the sea ice metadata with few examples of yearly changes in sea ice extent.

Keywords:
sea ice observation; methods; data; instruments

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