The SIOS Data Management Service (SDMS) integrates information from SIOS partner data repositories into a unified virtual data centre, the SIOS Data Access Portal, allowing users to search for and access data regardless of where they are archived. Providers and users have to commit to the SIOS data policy.
The current focus is on dataset discovery through standardised metadata, and retrieval, visualisation & transformation of data. Ultimately, the Data Management Service works towards integration of datasets which requires a high level of interoperability at the data level.
SDMS currently harvests information on SIOS relevant datasets from a number of data centres (see below), some hosted by SIOS partners and some not. Data centres hosted by SIOS partners work to harmonise access to the data allowing integrated visualisation etc for the relevant datasets.
Data centres SDMS is harvesting information from.
SIOS partner data centres
Other
AWI (DE)
British Antarctic Survey
CNR (IT) - temporarily disabled due to server issues
National Snow and Ice Data Center
IGPAS (PL)
IMR (NO)
IOPAN (PL)
MET (NO) - weather stations have not been updated for a while, update in progress
NERSC (NO)
NILU (NO)
NIPR (JP)
NPI (NO)
UiS (PL)
Citation of data and service
If you use data retrieved through this portal, please acknowledge our funding source: Research Council of Norway, project number 291644, Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System – Knowledge Centre, operational phase.
Always remember to cite data when used!
Citation information for individual datasets is often provided in the metadata. However, not all datasets have this information embedded in the discovery metadata. On a general basis a citation of a dataset include the same components as any other citation:
author,
title,
year of publication,
publisher (for data this is often the archive where it is housed),
edition or version,
access information (a URL or persistent identifier, e.g. DOI if provided)
SIOS recommends all partner data repositories to mint Digital Object Identifiers (DOI) on all datasets. The information required to properly cite a dataset is normally provided in the discovery metadata the datasets.
SIOS Core Data
In order to find SIOS Core Data please use the searchable item marked "Collection" on the right hand side of the map and select "SIOSCD". Quick access to SIOS Core Data is provided here.
Nansen Legacy Data
The Nansen Legacy project is using the SIOS Data Management system as the data portal. Quick access to all Nansen Legacy related datasets is available here.
Brief user guide
Outline of the data portal search interface.
The Data Access Portal has information in 3 columns. An outline of the content in these columns is provided above. When first entering the search interface, all potential datasets are listed. Datasets are indicated in the map and results tabulation elements which are located in the middle column. The order of results can be modified using the "Sort by" option in the left column. On top of this column is normally relevant guidance information to user presented as collapsible elements.
If the user want to refine the search, this can be done by constraining the bounding box search. This is done in the map - the listing of datasets is automatically updated. Date constraints can be added in the left column. For these to take effect, the user has to push the button marked search. In the left column it is also possible to specific text elements to search for in the datasets. Again pushing the button marked "Search" is necessary for these to take action. Complex search patterns can be constructed using logical operators from the drop down above the text field and prefixing words with '+' to require their presence and '-' to require their non presence.
Other elements indicated in the left and right columns are facet searches, i.e. these are keywords that are found in the datasets and all datasets that contain these specific keywords in the appropriate metadata elements are listed together. Further refinement can be done using full text, date or bounding box constraints. Individuals, organisations and data centres involved in generating or curating the datasets are listed in the facets in the right column.
This dataset contains annually averaged ice surface velocity and thickness for all 202 tidewater glacier fronts on Svalbard, dating from 2012 to 2021. This is combined with mapping of front position changes to derive annual ice mass rates for retreat/advance, ice flux (discharge) and total frontal ablation.
a) Sea bed mapping and b) Glacial geological and paleo climatic research.Acustical profile data from seismic, penetration echo sounder and side-scanning sonar.
This dataset contains annual shapefiles of marine-terminating glacier fronts on Svalbard, produced as a part of the project Copernicus Glacier Service.
Ambient sound was measured in Storfjorden, Svalbard at frequencies from 30 to 24000 Hz at a depth of around 20 meters. The measurements were carried out in open sea at depths of about 100 metres or more. The measurements were carried out using a drifting small boat, where the engine was turned off. Thereafter, a second small boat was used for transmitting pings at 11 kHz towards the first small boat at different depths and ranges. The experiment was carried out in June 2020 by Master students under supervision, as part of a research school in the Barents Sea with K/V Svalbard, organized under the UAK project lead by the Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Centre.
XBT profiles of temperature, pressure and sound speed in the Fram Strait from KV Svalbard in September 2012.
There are a total of 7 profiles and 11365 observations.
The XBT probe T5 was used, see http://www.sippican.com/contentmgr/showdetails.php/id/312 for more info on the probe.
It is data from Sailbuoy "Ocean Acidification Vehicle" (OAV) a.k.a. SB Iskant. A new sensor package developed by Aanderaa Data Instruments was used to measure temperature, conductivity, pH, partial pressure of carbon dioxide (pCO2), and dissolved oxygen (O2). Most of the sensors were housed in a bulb on the keel of the SailBuoy together with a UV-antifouling device. Data were recorded in the Fram Strait every 10 min. from 30 June 2016 to 18 July 2016.
CTD data collected north of Svalbard, during the UAK 2021 Research School with KV Svalbard. Data has been processed with the Sea-Bird SBEDataprocessing tool.
Ambient sound was measured in Storfjorden, Svalbardatfrequenciesfrom30 to 24000Hz at a depth of around 20 meters.The measurements were carried out in open sea at depths of about 100 metres or more.The measurements were carried out using a drifting small boat, where the engine was turned off.Thereafter, asecond small boat was used for transmitting pings at 11 kHztowards the first small boatatdifferent depths and ranges.The experiment was carried outin June 2020by Master studentsunder supervision, as part of a research school in the Barents Sea with K/V Svalbard, organized under the UAK project lead by the Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Centre.
Ambient sound was measured in Storfjorden, Svalbard at frequencies from 30 to 24000 Hz at a depth of around 20 meters. The measurements were carried out in open sea at depths of about 100 metres or more. The measurements were carried out using a drifting small boat, where the engine was turned off. Thereafter, a second small boat was used for transmitting pings at 11 kHz towards the first small boat at different depths and ranges. The experiment was carried out in June 2020 by Master students under supervision, as part of a research school in the Barents Sea with K/V Svalbard, organized under the UAK project lead by the Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Centre.
XBT profiles of temperature and pressure, and XCTD profiles of temperature, salinity, and pressure, collected in the Fram Strait from KV Svalbard in July 2016. The data collection also include calculated sound speed profiles provided by the instrument manufacturer. There are a total of 150 profiles and 366117 observations.
Ambient sound was measured in Storfjorden, Svalbard at frequencies from 30 to 24000 Hz at depths from 4 to 20 meters. The measurements were carried out near land and melting ice bergs. The measurements were carried out using a drifting small boat, where the engine was turned off. Thereafter, a second small boat was used for transmitting pings at 11 kHz towards the first small boat at different depths and ranges. The experiment was carried out in June 2020 by Master students under supervision, as part of a research school in the Barents Sea with K/V Svalbard, organized under the UAK project lead by the Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Centre.
Time averaged sound pressure obtained from the ACOBAR acoustic experiment in Fram Strait. The data were were obtained over 362 days every 3 hours from Aug 2010 - Jul 2011, and over 311 days every 3 hours from Sep 2011 - Jul 2012. 10-, 50- and 90- percentiles of the sound pressure and power for each frequency (0-500 Hz) were computed.