Description

A data frame measuring daily sea-ice extent from 1978 until 2013.

Usage

Format

A data frame measuring daily sea-ice extent from 1978 until 2013

Source

ftp://sidads.colorado.edu/DATASETS/NOAA/G02135/north/daily/data/NH_seaice_extent_final.csv and ftp://sidads.colorado.edu/DATASETS/NOAA/G02135/north/daily/data/NH_seaice_extent_nrt.csv. The data can be downloaded with read.table(.,sep=",",skip=2,col.names=col.names).

References

See the blog post http://www.r-bloggers.com/arctic-sea-ice-at-lowest-levels-since-observations-began/ for a description and nice script to play with.