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.