CTD data from cruises to Kongsfjorden and adjacent coastal area. Between 1 and 5 cruises each year.Occasional current meter data provided also.

The IDAP (Ice Data Aqusition Programme) project was undertaken on commission from the oil companies to map the iceberg occurence in the Barents sea. The satellite images are provided by Tromsø Satellite Station. The aerial photos were obtained by russian flights in the years 1936-1991. The R/V Lance observations were obtained during the forthnight expeditions in the period 1988-1993.Data contains of: satellite images, aerial photos and observations from ships, as well as data from buoys on the icebergs. Registration of air temperature, buoy temperature, speed and size of the icebergs. The dataset is currently unavailable in any digital format. There are some documents available at the library of NPI in Tromsø: - IDAP 88: Vessel deployment cruise report 18 - 28 March 1988 Torgny Vinje & Hans Jensen - [IDAP 89 Lance deployment. 1, Cruise report / Hans Jensen and Torgny Vinje. Oslo : Norsk polarinstitutt, 1989. - 1 b. (flere pag.) : ill. -(Rapportserie / Norsk polarinstitutt ; 52)](https://brage.npolar.no/npolar-xmlui/handle/11250/173366) - IDAP 89 R/V Lance deployment. Volume 2, Field observations and analysis / Torgny Vinje ... [et al.]. - Oslo : Norsk Polarinstitutt, 1989. - IV, 73 s. : ill. - IDAP 89 Russian buoy deployment. Volume 1, Field observations and first period analysis / Ånund Sigurd Johnsen, Torgny Vinje. - Oslo : Norsk Polarinstitutt, 1990. - IV, 29 s. : ill. - IDAP 90 Russian Buoy Deployment : cruise report Torgny Vinje and Terje Brinck Løyning - IDAP 90 Analysis of Russian ice borders Torgny Vinje - IDAP 90 R/V Lance deployment Volume 2 : field observations and analysis Hans Jensen, Stig Magnar Løvås, Torgny Vinje and Terje Løyning - IDAP 90 Russian Buoy Deployment : field observations and analysis Aanund Sigurd Kvambekk, Terje Brinck Løyning and Torgny Vinje - IDAP 91 [R/V Lance deployment. 1, Cruise report / Hans Jensen, Stig Magnar Løvås, Terje Brinck Løyning. - Oslo : Norsk polarinstitutt, 1991. - II, 56 bl. (flere fold.) ; 30 cm. - (NP report ; 71)](https://brage.npolar.no/npolar-xmlui/handle/11250/173383) - IDAP 92 Eastern Barents Sea buoy deployment Volume 1 : cruise report Nikolay Doronin and Torgny Vinje - Iceberg extremal analysis / Yury Gudoshnikov, Alexey Naumov & Gennady Zubakin. - St.-Petersburg : EcoShelf, 1994. - I, 18 bl. : ill. Project supervisor: Nikolay Doronin for Torgny Vinje. Project client: Norsk polarinstitutt for OKN - IDAP. In addition, there were some talks about IDAB at the POAC 1993: http://www.poac.com/Papers/POAC93_V1_all.pdf (mostly from page 450). There is also the historic ice chart archive that is partly published hree: http://www.climate-cryosphere.org/resources/historical-ice-chart-archive/about Other parts are not digitalised. A summary (in Norwegian) can be found here: https://www.npolar.no/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/historisk-isgrensearkiv.pdf

This dataset contains benthic foraminifer and diatom data from sediment cores taken in the Arctic Ocean. Diatom and benthic foraminifer species counts were used for sea-surface temperature reconstructions.

Part of the NFR-funded project: MariClim (Marine Ecosystem Consequences of Climate Induced Changes in the Water Masses off West-Spitsbergen).Data from PhD-project of Fredrik Broms on: Ecological Role of polar cod, Boreogadus saida, in the marine food web of Kongsfjorden, Svalbard.

Within the Marine Mammals Exploring the Oceans Pole to Pole (MEOP) program, several international teams agreed to share their CTD-SRDL data sets to produce a single, uniformly calibrated, homogeneous database of hydrographic profiles. Here we present the MEOP-CTD database, a quality-controlled collection of most seal-derived hydrographic data obtained in the period 2004–2010. The MEOP-CTD database includes 349 CTD-SRDLs, representing 165,000 TS profiles. The majority of loggers were deployed on elephant seals, with a lesser number on Weddell and crabeater seals. On average, profiles are 500 m deep, although some seals occasionally reach 2000 m or more. The MEOP-CTD collection of profiles produces near circumpolar coverage, although some regions such as the Weddell and Ross Seas remain poorly sampled. More than 60% of TS profiles were obtained south of the southern limit of the ACC, where few Argo data exist. The migration distance of seals depends highly on the deployment location and time of the year, ranging from 100 km to more than 5000 km, while the life span of a CTD-SRDL varies from 1 to 10 months (5 months on average). The bulk of measurements were made in the austral autumn and winter, when other in situ data are scarce, yielding hydrographic sections with high spatial and temporal resolution (2.5 profiles per day on average).

The dataset contains a subset of physical oceanography data collected by the Norwegian Institute between 1981 and 2015. The data come from moored instruments (current meters, ADCPs, temperature and salinity sensors), and from CTD casts (standard casts from ships, and casts with portable equipment on helicopter transects). It also contains bottle data (such as oxygen isotope ratios and nutrients), sea ice thicknesses observed by upward looking sonars, and sea ice drift observed by ADCPs. This dataset is available as a JSON API only.

The Sea Bird Colony Database contains current and historical data for all known seabird colonies in Svalbard and around the Barents Sea, including total counts, surveillance data, photographic documentation and references. The database is owned and annually maintained by the Norwegian Polar Institute in partnership with seven Russian institutions.