The map is the 4.0 version of the International Bathymetric Chart of the Arctic Ocean (IBCAO), an initiative that was created in 1997 in Saint Petersburg (Russia) in order to map the depths of the ...

Much of the focus was on the Arctic Ocean, where bathymetric and geologic surveys by federal agencies produced the first detailed maps of a complex seafloor with a series of canyons, ridges and ...

Ice and snow reflect sunlight, keeping the Arctic cool, while large dark areas of open ocean absorb abundant ... The panels show pond bathymetry (water depth) (a) and pond level above sea surface ...

The Arctic Ocean basin is rimmed by a narrow continental ... The first one below shows the bathymetry (seafloor topography) for the Canadian/Greenland side of the Lomonosov Ridge with some simple ...

Now, new research has found that Arctic Ocean sea ice is shrinking even faster than previously thought — and that the Arctic may start to see its first “ice-free” days within the current decade.

The new portrayal of the Arctic Ocean floor is in the form of a digital gridded database and comprises Version 4.0 of the International Bathymetric Chart of the Arctic Ocean (IBCAO). The gridded ...