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International Bathymetric Chart of the Arctic Ocean (IBCAO)

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The International Bathymetric Chart of the Arctic Ocean (IBCAO). Mapping project focused on assembling and compiling all available depth information from the Arctic Ocean to portray the shape of its seafloor.

Introduction

IBCAO was initiated as a bathymetric mapping project in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1997 (Macnab and Grikurov, 1997). The goal was to develop a digital database containing all available bathymetric data north of 64°N and from this compile a bathymetric map and digital bathymetric model (DBM) representing the shape of the Arctic seafloor. DBM is a digital terrain model (DTM) representing the bathymetry of the seafloor. The most common format of a DBM is a regular grid with defined cell spacing. Each grid cell is represented by a bathymetric value, i.e., a depth. IBCAO builds on the volunteer efforts of investigators and data contributions from countries that carry out mapping in the Arctic Ocean. An established editorial board comprises its main...

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  1. Department of Geological Sciences, Stockholm University, SE-10691, Stockholm, Sweden

    Martin Jakobsson

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  1. Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, University of Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland

    Jan Harff

  2. Institute of Geography and Geology, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

    Martin Meschede

  3. Leibiniz Institute of Marine Sciences, University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany

    Sven Petersen

  4. Academy of Sciences, Humanities, and Lit c/o Helmholtz-Center for Ocean Research, Kiel, Germany

    Jörn Thiede

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Jakobsson, M. (2015). International Bathymetric Chart of the Arctic Ocean (IBCAO). In: Harff, J., Meschede, M., Petersen, S., Thiede, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Marine Geosciences. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6644-0_68-3

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