Arctic Data Collaborative

The Arctic Data Collaborative (ARDAC) provides highly-curated, relevant Arctic datasets, streamlined data access, processing code examples and visualizations to support research in the North.

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Content available on this site

This tool has a wide range of best-available climate science datasets and supporting content. Datasets include:

• Temperature and precipitation, from both CMIP5 and CMIP6 climate models, at 2km resolution over Alaska and western Canada
• Derived climate indicators, such as ‘wet days per year’ and ‘deep winter days’, provide additional meaning and context for changing climate conditions
• Hydrology, including evapotranspiration and soil moisture content
• Flammability and vegetation from the ALFRESCO fire model, driven by CMIP5 climate models
• Sea ice concentration across the entire Arctic, as well as landfast sea ice on the Alaska coast

For every variable in each dataset, you can see an interactive map. If you pick a specific place by name or latitude/longitude, you can see interactive charts as well as get a download of the timeseries of data for that point.

This site also has interactive stories which draw upon the datasets available here. Written by several different researchers with the University of Alaska Fairbanks and other institutions, these stories help explain and explore the context and implications of various aspects of these datasets.

Finally, we also include guides on how to write programs that use the Data API that drives this application. Interactive online computational notebooks can be run in the browser, and edited to help you get started with interacting with climate data via Python.