Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)
Sea Ice Concentrations from Nimbus-7 SMMR and DMSP SSM/I-SSMIS Passive Microwave Data, Version 2
datasetobservational / measurementIndustry: Aerospace
- Category
- Data & Digital Tools
- Affiliations
- CIRES
Description
A consistent time series of Arctic and Antarctic sea ice concentrations generated from passive microwave brightness temperatures, on a 25 x 25 km polar stereographic grid, covering 26 October 1978 to 31 December 2025. Forward processing has stopped; the data remain available as a static product.
Official page
https://nsidc.org/data/nsidc-0051/versions/2
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- NSIDC User Services / Earthdata Forum (generic)
Details
- Keywords
- brightness temperature data, polar stereographic grid, large-scale climate indicator, model validation input, sensor inter-calibration, nimbus-7
- Location
- Boulder, Colorado
- Temporal cadence
- daily; monthly
- Associated entity
- NSIDC (NASA NSIDC DAAC); NSIDC is part of CIRES
- Identifier
- NSIDC-0051