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The AIDJEX program was the first major western sea ice experiment constructed specifically to answer emerging questions about how sea ice moves and changes in response to the influence of ocean and atmosphere. A pilot study in 1972 was followed by the AIDJEX field program in 1975 and 1976.

Researchers maintained four manned camps on ice floes in the Beaufort Sea. The scientists collected meteorological and oceanographic data from instruments located at the camps and on floating data buoys. The experiment was designed to collect coordinated measurements over at least one year, in order to have the right combination of data for understanding atmosphere and ice interactions. The submarine USS Gurnardparticipated by collecting ice draft data from upward-looking acoustical soundings (sonar). Ice draft (the depth of the ice below the water surface) is an estimator of ice thickness.

The University of Washington led the logistics and research work of the program, which was a collaboration between the United States, Canada, and Japan. Norbert Untersteiner was instrumental in the design of AIDJEX and served as Project Director from 1971 to 1978. The Polar Science Center at the University of Washington maintains an AIDJEX electronic library. It includes downloadable copies of the contents of all 40 AIDJEX Bulletins, beginning in 1970 and ending in 1978.

The majority of the data are held with the NSIDC, at their website. This dataset was provided to Erica Rosenblum.

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Dataset Name The Arctic Ice Dynamics Joint Expermint (AIDJEX)
Dataset General Type AIDJEX
Dataset Type Dataset
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Program Website https://nsidc.org/noaa/aidjex
Keyword Vocabulary Polar Data Catalogue
Keyword Vocabulary URL https://www.polardata.ca/pdcinput/public/keywordlibrary
Theme Cryosphere
Dataset Status Complete
Maintenance and Update Frequency Continual
Dataset Last Revision Date 1976-03-31
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Metadata Creation Date 2022
Publisher CanWIN
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Dataset Collection Start Date 1975-03-01
Dataset Collection End Date 1976-03-31
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Spatial extent West Bound Longitude
Spatial extent East Bound Longitude
Spatial extent South Bound Latitude
Spatial extent North Bound Latitude
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Licence Type Open
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Dataset Authors 1
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Untersteiner, Norbert
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Organizational
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portalco@umanitoba.ca
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Centre for Earth Observation Science - University of Manitoba
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Contributors 1
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Trowbridge, R
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Project Data Curator CanWIN
Project Data Curator email portalco@umanitoba.ca
Project Data Curator Affiliation Centre for Earth Observation Science - University of Manitoba
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