Brief description
This is a simple index which looks at the 360x1-degree longitudinal wedges around the Antarctic continent to see if there is any sea ice (where sea ice concentration is greater than 15%) to the north of the continent in each of these wedges. The index goes from 0 (sea ice to the north off the continent in every longitude wedge) to 360 (no sea ice around the continent at all. Notes about the spreadsheet: "-" means no data. Satellite data was not available for those years. Otherwise the index goes from 0 through to 360. - Zero means that there is no longitude around the continent where there is coastal exposure. - 18 (for example) means that there are 18 longitudinal wedges around the continent with coastal exposure. This project used the following NASA data to develop the coastal exposure index: Cavalieri, D. J., C. L. Parkinson, P. Gloersen, and H. J. Zwally. 1996, updated yearly. Sea Ice Concentrations from Nimbus-7 SMMR and DMSP SSM/I-SSMIS Passive Microwave Data, Version 1. [1979-2015]. Boulder, Colorado USA. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.5067/8GQ8LZQVL0VL. [2016-05-30]Lineage
Progress Code: completedNotes
PurposeCan be used as a tool to examine summer-time sea ice cover and also a tool in which you can compare observation data with model output.
Data time period: 1978-10-26 to 2015-12-31
text: westlimit=-180; southlimit=-80; eastlimit=180; northlimit=-60
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Sea Ice Concentrations from Nimbus-7 SMMR and DMSP SSM/I-SSMIS Passive Microwave Data, Version 1 (VIEW RELATED INFORMATION)
- global : AAS_4116_Coastal_Exposure