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Field

NSIDC freeze depth
more information Arctic EASE-grid Freeze and Thaw Depths
X axis: whole world in 360 1.00° steps, first point at 0.50° E, last point at 359.50° E
Y axis: regular grid with 90 1.00° steps, first point at 0.50° N, last point at 89.50° N
Z at 1000.00
Yearly data available from 1901 to 2001 ( 101 years)
Variable frz (freeze depth) in m
Full metadata.

Get grid points, average area or generate subset
Mask:   add a mask to the list help
Latitude: °N - °N help
Longitude: °E - °E
Boundaries:
Make: average max min set of grid points subset of the field help
Demand at least: % valid points in this region help
helpApply year-on-year high/low-pass filter
filter
cut-off value years
requiring at least % valid data
helpCreate a field with lower time resolution
First fill missing data: ignore, climatology, trend, persistence.
Then apply: - running mean with direction
Then apply new time scale:
New variable: of freeze depth
Minimum: % valid data
Threshold:
helpCreate a field with lower spatial resolution
Average over blocks of longitude and latitude grid cells
getfieldtype: please ask the administrator to add "frz" to the lists in getfieldtype

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the annual value into the months starting in

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Please consider downloading this field from the authoritative site.
If you really want to get it here, NSIDC freeze depth is available as GrADS .ctl and gzipped .dat files (size 3.34517 MB)
Alternatively, you can generate a netCDF file of the same size.
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