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The National Ice Center (N IC), under sponsorship of the United States Navy, the United States Coast Guard, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), provides sea ice analyses encompassing the "Arctic" and the "Antarctic". These analyses continue the data set established under our previous name, the Joint Ice Center. These atlases continue the near real-time integration of remotely sensed data and point observations. During the last week of August 1996, the West Arctic paper charts were replaced by digital charts in a Graphics Interface Format (. GlF). Printouts of the digital GIF charts for all West Arctic regions are contained in this Special Arctic Supplement to the "Arctic Sea Ice Atlas". The atlas contains weekly charts depicting the sea ice extent and coverage in the Northern Hemisphere, West Arctic from the last week in August 1996 through December 1996, and will be the final atlas published in a hard copy format by the NIC. Future annual atlases will be available in a digital format on CD-ROM through the National Snow and Ice Data Center (http:11www-nsidc.colorado.edu). NSlDC is the official archive center for the NIC.