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Sea Ice Animations

These gif animations were generated from daily ice snapshot files and from monthly average files.  They are in .avi format and will play on xanim (Unix) or a windows media player. 

The approximate file sizes are listed - slow connections beware.



Sea Ice Concentration Sea Ice Thickness
Spinup Year 18
Entire Domain
Daily Images (9.5 Mb)
Spinup Year 18
Entire Domain
Daily Images (7.6 Mb)
Spinup Year 18
Bering Sea 
Daily Images(10 Mb)
Spinup Year 18 Barents,
Greenland, and Norwegian Seas 
Daily Images (19 Mb)
Spinup Year 22
Canadian Archipelago
Daily Images (11 Mb)
Spinup Years 28-29
Entire Domain 
Monthly Averages (1.3 Mb)
(note: these are the first two years of actual forcing (1979) vice the 15 year average used previously during years 1-27 of spinup)
Spinup Years 28-29
Entire Domain
Monthly Averages (1.3 Mb)
(note: these are the first two years of actual forcing (1979) vice the 15 year average used previously during years 1-27 of spinup)

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