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Chukchi Bathymetry:
Alaska Region Bathymetric DEM

Recent Wind Vectors:
From airports
The labels at Barrow, Wainwright, and Point Lay are links to wind data collected in those locations.

Active Drifters:
This map shows only currently active drifters. See the Drifters Page for all deployments.
BOEM 8/13/12
BOEM 8/24/12
All final locations of drifters

Oil Leases:
Active, July 2012

Sea Ice:

Ice edges, courtesy of the National Ice Center daily polar Marginal Ice Zone products.
arctic.kmz
actic_line_2012143.kmz

Ice categories, courtesy of NOAA's NWS. Click on each shape to view category definition.
Dec. 19, 2012


Sea Surface Temperature:

Composite SST, courtesy of NASA's Short-term Prediction Research and Transition Center (SPoRT).
7 day MODIS/NESDIS


Welcome to the project home page. See the tabs above for links to other aspects of this project. Below is the Real-Time Data Map.

Note: This project has mostly wrapped up for the year. The remaining drifters are stuck in the sea ice, and the HFR arrays have been put to bed. Come back in Spring, 2013 for the resumption of field work.



Animations and static maps of individual drifters in 2012 are available on the 2012 Chukchi Sea Oceanographic Drifters page.

This work is funded by BOEM.

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Last modified: December 20 2012 12:15:08.