Data Information Page from ArcticRIMS (http://RIMS.unh.edu)

Title:
SSM/I Freeze Thaw 5-day Composites , Aggregated by Administrative Regions (Serreze, Zhang)

Description:
5-day composites of SSM/I Freeze Thaw data.

Classification:
Meteorology, Climate, Political Divisions

Author/PI:
Richard Lammers and Tingjun Zhang 

Contact Information for original gridded daily time step data:
Mark Serreze
Senior Research Scientist
449 UCB, RL-2, #223
National Snow and Ice Data Center
University of Colorado  Boulder, CO 80309-0449
E-mail: serreze@kryos.colorado.edu
Tel: 303-492-2963
Web: http://nsidc.org/research/bios/serreze.html

Tingjun Zhang
University of Colorado at Boulder
National Snow and Ice Data Center
CIRES 449 UCB
Boulder CO 80309 USA
Email:	tzhang@kryos.colorado.edu
Tel:	303-492-5236 
Web: http://nsidc.org/research/bios/zhang.html


Contact Information for all spatially and temporally aggregated data in RIMS:
Richard Lammers
Water Systems Analysis Group
Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space
Morse Hall, Room 211
8 College Road    
University of New Hampshire 
Durham, NH  03824-3525 USA   
Email: Richard.Lammers@unh.edu
Tel:   (603) 862-4699
Web:   http://www.wsag.unh.edu/


Temporal Coverage

Begin Date (year-month-day):
1987-08-01

End Date (year-month-day):
2001-06-30


Spatial Coverage:
Corner coordinates in Ease Projection (Units: Meters form N.P.)
(Description at http://nsidc.org/data/ease/ease_grid.html)

Minimum X:
-4875633.612 m

Minimum Y:
-4875633.612 m

Maximum X:
4875633.612 m

Maximum Y:
4875633.612 m

Corner coordinates in Geographical projection (Units: Degrees)
(Description at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equirectangular_projection)

Minimum latitude:
45.0

Minimum longitude:
-180.0

Maximum latitude:
90.0

Maximum longitude:
180.0

Units:
classes

Aggregation Method:
classes

General Methods:
5-day composites rather than 1-day 'snapshots'. A pixel is marked as
frozen if it appears frozen on at least 1 of the 5 days in the composite.

Comments:

References:


Arctic RIMS Contact:
Richard Lammers
Water Systems Analysis Group
Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space
Morse Hall
University of New Hampshire
Durham, NH 03824

Phone: (603) 862-4699
 Fax: (603) 862-0587
Email: Richard.Lammers@unh.edu
 Web: http://wsag.unh.edu

Data Archiving:
This ArcticRIMS data set has been permanently stored to the ARCSS Data Archive at NCAR/EOL (http://www.eol.ucar.edu/projects/arcss) with the support of National Science Foundation grants (NSF) OPP-0230243 and 
Humans and Hydrology at High Latitudes (NSF) ARC-0531354

Note:
Data represents only the portion of administrative units within the Pan-Arctic drainage domain.