Environmental Working Group Joint U.S.-Russian Atlas of the Arctic Ocean, Version 1

The primary products of the Atlas are gridded mean fields for decadal periods (1950s,1960s, 1970s, 1980s) of temperature, salinity, density and dynamic height, Atlantic water layer depth, and temperature and salinity profiles and transects. The original individual observations that were used to derive these fields are not provided with the Atlas and are not available. Note that the Polar Science Center Hydrographic Climatology (PHC) ocean database (version 3.0) is available from the Polar Science Center, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington.

This is a global gridded database with a high-quality description of arctic seas achieved by merging data from several sources, including data from the Environmental Working Group Joint U.S.-Russian Atlas of the Arctic Ocean. The PHC or later versions may be more suitable for your research. As of January 2023, contact Michael Steele, Applied Physics Laboratory, 1013 NE 40th Street, Seattle, WA 98105 if you are interested in learning more about the PHC.