An investigation into Southern Hemisphere cyclone-sea ice links using long records of NCEP analyses and passive microwave data

The sea ice concentration data used were for the Antarctic only (the entire Antarctic sea ice domain). Data started in 1978. All data were collected by satellite.

A link to a metadata record for these data are available from the URL given below. Two NCEP reanalysis data sets were used in this study. The first was NCEP/NCAR, with 6-hourly data available from 1958 (see the URL provided below for further information).

The second was the NCEP/DOE set, with 6-hourly data available from 1979 (see the URL provided below for further information). In this project the following model/analysis was applied: Application of The University of Melbourne cyclone tracking scheme (Simmonds et al., 2003, Monthly Weather Review, 131, 272-288) and a broad range of statistical tests. Brief details are provided in the Summary.

See the link for the pdf document for more detailed information. These complex statistical analyses were run over the entire length of the project (1998/99 - 2000/01). They were run on the Sun Workstation cluster in the School of Earth Sciences, The University of Melbourne.