Data Information Page from ArcticRIMS (http://RIMS.unh.edu)
 
 Title:
 SSM/I Freeze Thaw 5-day Composites (Serreze, Zhang)
 
 Description:
 5-day composites of SSM/I Freeze Thaw data.
 
 Classification:
 Meteorology, Climate
 
 Author/PI:
 Vorosmarty, Charles, Richard Lammers and Tingjun Zhang 
 
 Contact Information for original gridded daily time step data:
 Mark Serreze
 Senior Research Scientist
 449 UCB, RL-2, #223
 National Snow and Ice Data Center
 University of Colorado  Boulder, CO 80309-0449
 E-mail: serreze@kryos.colorado.edu
 Tel: 303-492-2963
 Web: http://nsidc.org/research/bios/serreze.html
 
 Tingjun Zhang
 University of Colorado at Boulder
 National Snow and Ice Data Center
 CIRES 449 UCB
 Boulder CO 80309 USA
 Email:	tzhang@kryos.colorado.edu
 Tel:	303-492-5236 
 Web: http://nsidc.org/research/bios/zhang.html
 
 
 Contact Information for all spatially and temporally aggregated data in RIMS:
 Charles Vorosmarty
 Department of Civil Engineering
 The City College of New York
 Steinman Hall, Rm T-513
 140th Street & Convent Ave, NY NY 10031 USA
 Email: cvorosmarty@ccny.cuny.edu 
 Tel:   (212) 650-7042
 Web:   http://crest.ccny.cuny.edu/
 
 Richard Lammers
 Water Systems Analysis Group
 Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space
 Morse Hall, Room 211
 8 College Road    
 University of New Hampshire 
 Durham, NH  03824-3525 USA   
 Email: Richard.Lammers@unh.edu
 Tel:   (603) 862-4699
 Web:   http://www.wsag.unh.edu/
 
 
 Temporal Coverage
 
 Begin Date (year-month-day):
 1987-08-01
 
 End Date (year-month-day):
 2001-06-30
 
 
 Spatial Coverage:
 Corner coordinates in Ease Projection (Units: Meters form N.P.)
 (Description at http://nsidc.org/data/ease/ease_grid.html)
 
 Minimum X:
 -4875633.612 m
 
 Minimum Y:
 -4875633.612 m
 
 Maximum X:
  4875633.612 m
 
 Maximum Y:
  4875633.612 m
 
 Corner coordinates in Geographical projection (Units: Degrees)
 (Description at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equirectangular_projection)
 
 Minimum latitude:
 45.0
 
 Minimum longitude:
 -180.0
 
 Maximum latitude:
 90.0
 
 Maximum longitude:
 180.0
 
 Units:
 classes
 
 Aggregation Method:
 classes
 
 General Methods:
 5-day composites rather than 1-day 'snapshots'. A pixel is marked as
 frozen if it appears frozen on at least 1 of the 5 days in the composite.
 
 Comments:
 
 References:
 
 
 Arctic RIMS Contact:
 Richard Lammers
 Water Systems Analysis Group
 Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space
 Morse Hall
 University of New Hampshire
 Durham, NH 03824
 
 Phone: (603) 862-4699
   Fax: (603) 862-0587
 Email: Richard.Lammers@unh.edu
   Web: http://wsag.unh.edu
 
 Data Archiving:
 This ArcticRIMS data set has been permanently stored to the ARCSS Data Archive at NCAR/EOL (http://www.eol.ucar.edu/projects/arcss) with the support of National Science Foundation grants (NSF) OPP-0230243 and 
 Humans and Hydrology at High Latitudes (NSF) ARC-0531354