The BarentsWatch WMS service provides the service layers used for the services at barentswatch.no and a few additional layers in order to make the information more accessible for other uses. The service layers can be adapted further if needs are clarified. Some service layers that are not appropriate for external use are not referred to. All the service layers are based on data from other agencies. Therefore, BarentsWatch/the Norwegian Coastal Administration are not the owners of all the data. If BarentsWatch does not add new information and the service layer is already presented by the data owner, it is not added to Geonorge even if it occurs in the service. See also BarentsWatch API for other access to the same data.

This service includes topographical maps on a scale of 1:1 to 1:300,000.

This file contains output from ensemble. Contains vertical profiles and cross sections.

Sea Ice Frequency charts display the percentage of days with more than 15 % ice coverage for each month over a 30 years periode.

The service contains GEBCO, VMAP0 data at higher zoom levels, and data from the national mapping authorities of Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden and USA. The service has been designed for use within the ArcticSDI Geoportal.

Carbonate in surface sediments.

Indigenous peoples of the Arctic countries subdivision according to language families. This service is internal and only used in the Arctic-SDI geoportal: https://geoportal.arctic-sdi.org/

This file contains output from Control member. Contains most forecast parameters on surface, model level and pressure levels The Norwegian Meteorological Institute has provided forecasts of the weather in the High North for a long time. Our Development Centre for Weather Forecasting has developed a high-resolution model that forecasts the weather in this area for the next three days. The model is called AROME-Arctic and has been running since November 15th, 2015. The geographic resolution is 2.5 kilometres, which is the same as in the model that the Norwegian Meteorological Institute uses to forecast the weather elsewhere in Norway. AROME-Arctic gives a detailed representation of processes on the ground and in the atmosphere. In addition to Svalbard and northern Norway, the model also covers a large area of sea, which is a challenge due to the sparsity of observations. Thus, satellite observations are particularly important for this model.

This service includes topographical maps on a scale of 1:1 million.

Deep arctic sponge aggregations. This habitat can be described as a type of deep-sea sponge aggregation (sensu OSPAR 2010) occurring only in the deeper, colder water (Arctic modified, and Norwegian Sea Deep Water), where glass sponges (class Hexactinellida) are typical and other strictly deep-sea sponges are common. One of the most common species of glass sponge is the Caulophacus arcticus, which is generally found on hard sea bottoms on the lower part of the continental slope.