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Science 17 January 1997:
Vol. 275. no. 5298, pp. 295 - 0
DOI: 10.1126/science.275.5298.295d
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ScienceScope

Ocean researchers are digging into 45 years of data on the Arctic Ocean recently declassified by the United States and Russia. Earlier this week, Vice President Al Gore announced the release of the first volume of a CD-ROM ocean atlas made from 1.3 million observations of winter temperatures and salinity. Some of the data were used to create this new model (right) of Arctic Ocean temperatures, featured in the February National Geographic.

The atlas, one fruit of an environmental task force set up 5 years ago by Gore and Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin, will be useful for honing ocean climate models and predicting pollution. "This really is the only data" for the middle of the Arctic, says oceanographer James Morison of the University of Washington. Later volumes will feature data on Arctic ice and meteorology. Scientists can view the new atlas and order the CD-ROM at the Arctic Climatology Atlas Web Site.




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