Dataset
The International Bathymetric Chart of the Arctic Ocean (IBCAO) Version 3.0
Abstract
The International Bathymetric Chart of the Arctic Ocean (IBCAO) Version 3.0 is a gridded continuous terrain model covering ocean and land of the Arctic region. The International Bathymetric Chart of the Arctic Ocean was initiated in 1997 and has since been the authoritative source of bathymetry for the Arctic Ocean. The IBCAO Version 3.0 Grid was released in June 2012.
At the time of its publication, IBCAO Version 3.0 represented the largest improvement in the data set 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, the 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.
The bathymetric grid released in IBCAO Version 3.0 is available in NetCDF, Esri ASCII or data GeoTIFF raster format. The IBCAO V3 data are built using the WGS84 horizontal datum, where the vertical datum is referenced to Mean Sea Level. Elevation values are provided in metres (negative below the sea surface). The IBCAO V3 dataset comprises polar stereographic grids at 500 x 500m grid intervals, true scale 75°N, in both smoothed (SM) and remove-restore (RR) method formats. The IBCAO V3 dataset also comprises geographic grids at 30 arc-second resolution in both smoothed (SM) and remove-restore (RR) method formats.
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Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.
Use of these data is covered by the following licence(s): http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record. |
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This dataset was generated by organisation with the "originator centre" role in this metadata record following their in-house data processing and quality control procedures. It represents version 3 of the International Bathymetric Chart of the Arctic Ocean (IBCAO) and has been generated by the originator on behalf of this project. The data set is in the form of a grid that has been generated from a number of sources and using different data collection techniques. Information concerning the source data sets included in the grid is given in the documentation that accompanies the data set. After generation, the grid was then provided to the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) for delivery via the General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (GEBCO) web site (maintained at BODC). In 2024, these data were moved to CEDA for long-term archival. |
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The data are provided as-is with no quality control undertaken by the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC). The data suppliers have not indicated if any quality control has been undertaken on these data.
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ESRI ASCII raster, data GeoTIFF, NetCDF
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