Fram Strait data products and downloads
For surface analyses, visualisation and modeling a Raster Digital Terrain Model (DTM) with 100 m cellsize covering the whole investigation area is available. The data set is referenced to Polar Stereographic Projection with WGS 1984 reference ellipsoid. Latitude of true scale is 79°North, longitude of central meridian is 4°East.
From the smoothed grid data contours have been derived and manually improved. For the whole study area a contour set with 20 m contour interval is available.
The derived contours are published in a new AWI map series, the AWI Bathymetric Charts of the Fram Strait (AWI BCFS). The series comprises nine sheets covering the study area at a scale of 1:100,000. Figure 1 shows the sheet index of the AWI BCFS. Sheet numbering is based on the GEBCO 1:1,000,000 chart compilation.
Map sheets of AWI Bathymetric Chart of the Fram Strait (scale 1:100,000)
| sheet no. | sheet name | northern boundary | southern | western | eastern |
| 581-21-1 | Molloy Ridge North | 80.0°N | 79.5°N | 0.0°E | 2.5°E |
| 581-21-2 | Spitsbergen Trough | 80.0°N | 79.5°N | 2.5°E | 5.0°E |
| 581-21-3 | Molloy Ridge South | 79.5°N | 79.0°N | 0.0°E | 2.5°E |
| 581-21-4 | Molloy Hole | 79.5°N | 79.0°N | 2.5°E | 5.0°E |
| 581-29-1 | Greenland-Spitsbergen Sill West | 79.0°N | 78.5°N | 0.0°E | 2.5°E |
| 581-29-2 | Greenland-Spitsbergen Sill East | 79.0°N | 78.5°N | 2.5°E | 5.0°E |
| 581-29-3 | Hovgaard Ridge West | 78.5°N | 78.0°N | 0.0°E | 2.5°E |
| 581-29-4 | Hovgaard Ridge East | 78.5°N | 78.0°N | 2.5°E | 5.0°E |
| 581-30-3 | Knipovich Ridge | 78.5°N | 78.0°N | 5.0°E | 7.5°E |
Fram Strait downloads
The files available for download are summarized in Table 2. The BCFS sheets can be obtained in PDF- or EPS-format. Data files come in ESRI interchange format (.E00), GMT- and/or ASCII-format. Large ASCII-files are compressed with gzip. On MS-Windows systems you can use tools like WinZIP, on UNIX systems simply use gunzip for decompression.
Please let us know what data you downloaded and for what purpose (E-mail to D. Graffe or H.W. Schenke). If you use the data sets and/or maps for publication, you have to acknowledge the data producers.
Download results e.g. DTM from PANGAEA
Download BCFS sheets (91x76 cm) from PANGAEA as PDF- or Postscript
| 581-21-1: Molloy Ridge North | eps.gz (1.0 MB) | pdf (882 KB) |
| 581-21-2: Spitsbergen Trough | eps.gz (1.2 MB) | pdf (1.1 MB) |
| 581-21-3: Molloy Ridge South | eps.gz (1.1 MB) | pdf (976 KB) |
| 581-21-4: Molloy Hole | eps.gz (1.4 MB) | pdf (1.3 MB) |
| 581-29-1: Greenland-Spitsbergen Sill West | eps.gz (963 KB) | pdf (807 KB) |
| 581-29-2: Greenland-Spitsbergen Sill East | eps.gz (1.0 MB) | pdf (856 KB) |
| 581-29-3: Hovgaard Ridge West | eps.gz (923 KB) | pdf (781 KB) |
| 581-29-4: Hovgaard Ridge East | eps.gz (1.1 MB) | pdf (991 KB) |
| 581-30-3: Knipovich Ridge | eps.gz (1.7 MB) | pdf (1.6 MB) |