Initiated in 1997, this undertaking has so far engaged the volunteer efforts of investigators who are affiliated with eleven institutions in eight countries: Canada, Denmark, Germany, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden, and the USA. The activity has also been endorsed and/or supported financially by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC), the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC), the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO), the US Office of Naval Research (ONR), and the US National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC).
New, April 4, 2008
Version 2.0 of the IBCAO Grid is now available for downloading along with
maps that are suitable for plotting. This new update is the most comprehensive
since the first release of IBCAO in 2000 and includes the recent years of
multibeam mapping. The resolution of the Polarstereographic grid has been
increased from 2.5-km to 2-km. The compilation of IBCAO Version 2.0 is described
in a Geophysical Research Letter article.
(Download article as a PDF here).
Please acknowledge the following citation when using the IBCAO grids and
maps:
Jakobsson, M., Macnab, R., Mayer, M., Anderson, R., Edwards, M., Hatzky,
J., Schenke, H-W., and Johnson, P., 2008, An improved bathymetric portrayal
of the Arctic Ocean: Implications for ocean modeling and geological, geophysical
and oceanographic analyses, v. 35, L07602, Geophysical Research Letters,
doi:10.1029/2008GL033520
URL: http://www.ibcao.org
maintained by:
NOAA/NGDC&WDC GMG, Boulder