8/5/2019 1981-2010 Sea Ice Climate Normals Release Note

Dataset Title: The 1981-2010 Sea Ice Climate Normals

Description: The 1981-2010 Sea Ice Climate Normals are the latest three-decade average of Arctic sea ice concentration, area, and extent computed from monthly satellite sea ice concentration estimates from a climate data record (CDR) produced by NOAA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC).

Version: v01r00

Spatial Coverage for sea ice concentration: N: 89.84, S: 31.1, E: 180, W: -180

Spatial Resolution for sea ice concentration: 25 km x 25 km

Temporal Coverage: January 1981 to December 2010

Data Contributors: Ge Peng, Anthony Arguez, Walter N. Meier, Jake Crouch and Philip Jones

Data Formats: NetCDF for sea ice concentration (sic) monthly and annual normals; ascii for sea ice area (sia) and sea ice extent (sie) 

Data Citation: Peng, G., A. Arguez, W.N. Meier, J. Crouch, and P. Jones: 2019: Sea ice climate normals for seasonal ice monitoring of Arctic and sub-regions. Version: r01r00. Asheville, North Carolina, USA: National Centers for Environmental Information. [Access Date]. doi: 

Literature Citation Example: 
Peng, G., A. Arguez, W.N. Meier, F. Vamborg, J. Crouch, and P. Jones: 2019: Sea ice climate normals for seasonal ice monitoring of Arctic and sub-regions. Data. Accepted.