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Dataset

 

Sea ice fraction estimates from low-level aircraft compiled from ACCACIA, Iceland Greenland Seas Project and Arctic Summertime Cyclones project flights

Update Frequency: Not Planned
Status: Ongoing
Online Status: ONLINE
Publication State: Published
Publication Date: 2026-05-20
Download Stats: last 12 months
Dataset Size: 3 Files | 155KB

Abstract

This dataset contains sea-ice fraction estimates, based on albedo from shortwave radiation during low-level aircraft legs, as well as a few other aircraft measurements compiled from several field campaigns: Aerosol Cloud Coupling and Climate Interactions in the Arctic (ACCACIA), Iceland Greenland Seas (IGP) Project and Arctic Summertime Cyclones (ASC) project flights. The data are derived from the BAE-146 measurements on the FAAM and Meteorological Airborne Science Instrumentation (MASIN) instrumentation measurements onboard the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) Twin Otter aircraft. All field campaigns were funded by NERC under the ACCACIA (NE/I028297/1), IGP (NE/N009754/1) and Arctic Summertime Cyclones (NE/T00682X/1) grants.

This compilation is a subset of data taken from ‘surface turbulence data sets’ for each individual campaign (also on CEDA).

Citable as:  Renfrew, I.; Elvidge, A.D.; Barrell, C.; Bennett, M. (2026): Sea ice fraction estimates from low-level aircraft compiled from ACCACIA, Iceland Greenland Seas Project and Arctic Summertime Cyclones project flights. NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis, date of citation. https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/e8c0d44bcc1f47ff888f3aa5d02b4597

Abbreviation: Not defined
Keywords: ACCACIA, IGP, Arctic Summertime Cyclones, FAAM, MASIN, turbulence

Details

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Access rules:
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.
Data lineage:

These data were produced by the project team and the output data were then supplied to CEDA for archiving.

Data Quality:
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File Format:
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Process overview

This dataset was generated by instruments deployed on platforms as listed below.
Output Description

None

  • var_id: LWdown
  • var_id: LWup
  • var_id: SWdown
  • var_id: SWup
  • var_id: Tsfc
  • var_id: alb
  • var_id: alt
  • var_id: campaign_id
  • var_id: flight_no
  • var_id: index
  • var_id: lat
  • var_id: leg_no
  • var_id: lon
  • var_id: mpf
  • var_id: run_length
  • var_id: run_no
  • var_id: sif
  • var_id: time
  • var_id: yyyymmdd

Co-ordinate Variables

Coverage
Temporal Range
Start time:
2013-03-23T00:00:00
End time:
2022-08-20T13:42:00
Geographic Extent

 
83.5000°
 
-30.0000°
 
29.0000°
 
60.0000°