EFG M2.5 Sea ice – previous maps

M2. Pelagic ocean waters biome

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Published

June 7, 2024

Version history

This page provides information about older or alternative versions of indicative distribution map for this ecosystem functional group M2.5 Sea ice. Check the current maps here.

  • Web navigation (code: M2.5.WM.nwx, version v1.0) in preparation

Datasets

Datasets considered for previous versions of the indicative map

  • EMU-2017 (Sayre et al. 2017).
  • G02135-Sea-Ice-3.0 (Fetterer et al. 2017).
  • MOD29P1D-V6 (Hall and Riggs 2015).
dataset url
EMU-2017 https://www.esri.com/en-us/about/science/ecological-marine-units/overview :: https://rmgsc.cr.usgs.gov/outgoing/ecosystems/Global/ :: https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2017.116 :: https://community.esri.com/groups/ecological-marine-units/blog/2017/01/03/getting-started-with-ecological-marne-units-emu-s-using-arcgis-desktop
G02135-Sea-Ice-3.0 https://nsidc.org/data/G02135/versions/3
MOD29P1D-V6 https://nsidc.org/data/MOD29P1D/versions/6

Available files

You can download geospatial data for older versions of these maps from the following sources:

Note that you need to login to some services like mapbox or earthengine, and in some cases you also need to request access to the files.

License information

Indicative maps have been released with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.

But see details of dataset licenses below:

dataset license_info
EMU-2017 https://data.amerigeoss.org/dataset/ecological-marine-unit-emu-explorer :: http://opendefinition.org/licenses/cc-by/
G02135-Sea-Ice-3.0 https://nsidc.org/data/data-policies#anchor-metadata-and-data-format-standards

References

References used in these versions of the maps.

  • Fetterer F, Knowles K, Meier WN, Savoie M, Windnagel AK (2017) Sea Ice Index, Version 3. Monthly Sea Ice Extent NSIDC: National Snow and Ice Data Center Boulder, Colorado USA. Updated daily, Accessed September 2019 DOI:10.7265/N5K072F8
  • Hall, D. K. and G. A. Riggs. 2015. MODIS/Terra Sea Ice Extent Daily L3 Global 1km EASE-Grid Day, Version 6. Boulder, Colorado USA. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. DOI: 10.5067/MODIS/MOD29P1D.006. [Accesed on March 2020]
  • Sayre, R.G., D.J. Wright, S.P. Breyer, K.A. Butler, K. Van Graafeiland, M.J. Costello, P.T. Harris, K.L. Goodin, J.M. Guinotte, Z. Basher, M.T. Kavanaugh, P.N. Halpin, M.E. Monaco, N. Cressie, P. Aniello, C.E. Frye, and D. Stephens (2017) A three-​dimensional mapping of the ocean based on environmental data Oceanography 30(1):90–103 DOI:10.5670/oceanog.2017.116