During that period a Canadian icebreaker frozen into an ice floe was used as a base for scientific studies of the ocean, ice, and atmosphere. Additional information about retrievals of cloudy sky surface temperature and albedo is available here . The ship drifted within the center portion of the image.
Retrieval results are available as monthly mean images and time series.
These results can be expected to change as problems in both the satellite and surface data are detected and corrected. Results presented here are averages over this area. The time series plots give area averaged values for a region 50 x 50 km approximately centered on the ship location. Both data series are smoothed with a 3-day running mean filter. Select from the following list to view time series plots.