Data:IBCAO

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Short Description

Color hillshade of Arctic Ocean bathymetry

Statement: Integrated bathymetric-topographic relief model of the Arctic Ocean; 500-meter cell size

Abstract: International Bathymetric Chart of the Arctic Ocean (IBCAO). The goal of this initiative is to develop a digital data base that contains all available bathymetric data north of 64 degrees North, for use by mapmakers, researchers, and others whose work requires a detailed and accurate knowledge of the depth and the shape of the Arctic seabed.

IBCAO Version 3.0 represents the largest improvement since 1999 taking advantage of new data sets collected by the circum-Arctic nations, opportunistic data collected from fishing vessels, data acquired from US Navy submarines and from research ships of various nations. Built using an improved gridding algorithm, this new grid is on a 500 meter spacing, revealing much greater details of the Arctic seafloor than IBCAO Version 1.0 (2.5 km) and Version 2.0 (2.0 km). The area covered by multibeam surveys has increased from ~6 % in Version 2.0 to ~11% in Version 3.0.

Data format

Data type:	Topography
Data origin:	Modeled
Data format:	ArcExport, KMZ, NetCDF
Other format:
Data resolution:	500 meter cell size
Datum:	Polar stereographic projection, geographic (horizontal); MSL (vertical)

Data Coverage

Spatial data coverage: Bathymetric data north of 64 degrees North
Temporal data coverage: Time averaged
Time period covered: up to the present

Availability

Download data: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/bathymetry/arctic/downloads.html
Data source: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/bathymetry/arctic/

References

• Jakobsson, M., L. A. Mayer, B. Coakley, J. A. Dowdeswell, S. Forbes, B. Fridman, H. Hodnesdal, R. Noormets, R. Pedersen, M. Rebesco, H.-W. Schenke, Y. Zarayskaya A, D. Accettella, A. Armstrong, R. M. Anderson, P. Bienhoff, A. Camerlenghi, I. Church, M. Edwards, J. V. Gardner, J. K. Hall, B. Hell, O. B. Hestvik, Y. Kristoffersen, C. Marcussen, R. Mohammad, D. Mosher, S. V. Nghiem, M. T. Pedrosa, P. G. Travaglini, and P. Weatherall, The International Bathymetric Chart of the Arctic Ocean (IBCAO) Version 3.0, Geophysical Research Letters, doi: 10.1029/2012GL052219.