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Ice concentration - Frequency of occurrences

General description

Technical description

General description

Table name: Ice concentration - Frequency of occurrences

This table is created from the Tbl_2.txt, Tbl_3.txt and Tbl_4.txt files as prepared by INSROP Project I.4.2 as part of INSROP Phase 2. The table records refer to ship route segments included in the Tbl_1 shapefile set, which is a part of the dataset provided by INSROP Project I.4.2. These segments are an extract of the ship routes as defined in INSROP Working paper no. 108 (1998), prepared by Work Package 1 (Box B) as part of INSROP Phase 2.

2.1. Ice concentration

The frequency of occurrence of different ranges of total ice concentration was calculated on the basis of monthly averaged observation data for the period 1953 to 1994 for each of 20-mile segments in the segments selected in WP1 Project. The initial information for the period 1953 to 1979 period was obtained from airborne ice observation data, for the period 1980 to 1990 from airborne ice and satellite observations and for the period 1991 to 1994 from satellite observation data.

The probabilistic estimates for month of the year were obtained for five concentration ranges: 0, 1-3; 4-6; 7-8 and 9-10 (tenths).

Technical description

Table source file name: tbl_4_3.txt

Path: <NSR_DATA>\icesnow\i_4_2

Table type: DText table.

* Ice concentration - Frequency of occurrences

3288 records, 9 descriptive fields.

Fields: [<Name>] -- <Alias> (type of field)

[No] -- "No" (Numeric, no decimals)

[Point_id] -- "Point No." (Numeric, no decimals)

[Month] -- "Month" (Numeric, no decimals)

[Num_obs] -- "Number of observations" (Numeric, no decimals)

[Conc_0_0] -- "Open water" (Numeric, 1 decimal)

Ice concentration range

[Conc_1_3] -- "1/10 - 3/10" (Numeric, 1 decimal)

Ice concentration range

[Conc_4_6] -- "4/10 - 6/10" (Numeric, 1 decimal)

Ice concentration range

[Conc_7_8] -- "7/10 - 8/10" (Numeric, 1 decimal)

Ice concentration range

[Conc_9_10] -- "9/10 - 10/10" (Numeric, 1 decimal)

Ice concentration range