Multisensor Analyzed Sea Ice Extent - Northern Hemisphere (MASIE-NH)  View Catalog Page Entry ID
G02186
Summary
The Multisensor Analyzed Sea Ice Extent Northern Hemisphere (MASIE-NH) products provide measurements of daily sea ice extent and sea ice edge boundary for the Northern Hemisphere and 16 Arctic regions in a polar stereographic projection. Products include an ASCII text file of sea ice extent values in square km over the entire Northern Hemisphere with 16 separate Arctic regions identified, time series plots of the 16 regions, and image files that visually show where the sea ice is. The MASIE-NH imagery are provided at a nominal 4 km resolution. The input data comes from the 4 km Interactive Multisensor Snow and Ice Mapping System (IMS) snow and ice product produced by the National Ice Center (NIC). NIC utilizes visible imagery, passive microwave data, and NIC weekly analysis products to create their data product. The MASIE-NH products are distributed in a number of formats including ASCII text, GeoTIFF, PNG, shapefiles, and Google Earth files and are available for the previous four weeks (28 days). The most recent days worth of imagery plus the ASCII text data file are provided via the MASIE Web site. An archive of the previous four weeks of imagery can be obtained via FTP.
Note: MASIE may look like several other sea ice products distributed at NSIDC and elsewhere, but its source data and intended uses are different. If intended and appropriate uses of the data are not clear after reading the documentation, please contact NSIDC User Services.
Geographic Coverage
Spatial Coordinates:
N: 90°
S: 0°
E: 180°
W: -180°
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Data Set Citation
Dataset Creator: National Ice Center and NSIDC. Compiled by F. Fetterer, M. Savoie, S. Helfrich, and P. Clemente-Colón.
Dataset Title: Multisensor Analyzed Sea Ice Extent - Northern Hemisphere (MASIE-NH)
Dataset Release Date: 2010-12-14
Dataset Release Place: Boulder, Colorado USA
Dataset Publisher: NSIDC: National Snow and Ice Data Center
Online Resource: http://nsidc.org/data/g02186.html
Dataset DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7265/N5GT5K3K
Data Resolution
Latitude Resolution: 4 km
Longitude Resolution: 4 km
Location Keywords
- CONTINENT NORTH AMERICA CANADA HUDSON BAY
- GEOGRAPHIC REGION NORTHERN HEMISPHERE
- OCEAN ARCTIC OCEAN
- OCEAN ARCTIC OCEAN BARENTS SEA
- OCEAN ARCTIC OCEAN BEAUFORT SEA
- OCEAN ARCTIC OCEAN CHUKCHI SEA
- OCEAN ATLANTIC OCEAN NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN BALTIC SEA
- OCEAN ATLANTIC OCEAN NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN GULF OF ST LAWRENCE
- OCEAN PACIFIC OCEAN NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN BERING SEA
- OCEAN PACIFIC OCEAN NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN SEA OF OKHOTSK
- OCEAN PACIFIC OCEAN WESTERN PACIFIC OCEAN YELLOW SEA
Science Keywords
- Cryosphere Sea Ice Ice Edges
- Cryosphere Sea Ice Ice Extent
- Cryosphere Sea Ice Ice Growth/Melt
- Oceans Sea Ice Ice Edges
- Oceans Sea Ice Ice Extent
- Oceans Sea Ice Ice Growth/Melt
Ancillary Keywords
- Arctic Sea Ice
- ICE EDGE
- Sea Ice
- Sea Ice Conditions
- Sea Ice Extent
- Climatology/Meteorology/Atmosphere
Platform
- ALOS Advanced Land Observing Satellite
- AQUA Earth Observing System, AQUA
- DMSP Defense Meteorological Satellite Program
- ENVISAT Environmental Satellite
- ERS-2 European Remote Sensing Satellite-2
- GOES NOAA Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites
- MSG Meteosat Second Generation
- NOAA POES NOAA Polar Orbiting Environmental Satellites
- RADARSAT-2
- SATELLITES
Instrument
- AMSR-E Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer-EOS
- AMSU-A Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-A
- AMSU-B ADVANCED MICROWAVE SOUNDING UNIT B (AMSU-B)
- ASAR Advanced Synthetic Aperature Radar
- AVHRR Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer
- GOES I-M IMAGER
- MODIS Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
- PALSAR Phased Array type L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar
- SAR Synthetic Aperture Radar
- SEVIRI Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager
- SSM/I Special Sensor Microwave/Imager
Quality
A quality assessment of this product has not been made.
Data Set Progress
in work
Originating Center
NSIDC_NOAA
Data Center
National Snow and Ice Data Center
Data Center URL: http://nsidc.org
Data Center Personnel
Name: NSIDC User Services
Phone: 1 303 492-6199
Fax: 1 303 492-2468
Email: nsidc@nsidc.org
Contact Address:
- National Snow and Ice Data Center
- CIRES, 449 UCB
- University of Colorado
City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA
NSIDC National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Data Center URL: http://nsidc.org/noaa/
Data Center Personnel
Name: NSIDC NOAA User Services
Phone: 1 303 492-6199
Fax: 1 303 492-2468
Email: nsidc@nsidc.org
Contact Address:
- National Snow and Ice Data Center
- CIRES, 449 UCB
- University of Colorado
City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA
Distribution
Distribution Media: FTP
Distribution Size: 128 - 37 MB
Distribution Format: GeoTIFF
Distribution Media: FTP
Distribution Size: 16 - 768 KB
Distribution Format: PNG
Distribution Media: FTP
Distribution Size: 16 KB
Distribution Format: ASCII Text
Distribution Media: FTP
Distribution Size: 32 KB
Distribution Format: ESRI Shapefiles
Distribution Media: FTP
Distribution Size: 516 MB
Distribution Format: NetCDF
Distribution Media: FTP
Distribution Size: 57 KB
Distribution Format: Microsoft Excel
Distribution Media: FTP
Distribution Size: 98 - 130 KB
Distribution Format: KML
Personnel
Florence Fetterer
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Email: fetterer@nsidc.org
Contact Address:
- National Snow and Ice Data Center
City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Country: USA
Pablo Clemente-Colón
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Phone: 1 301 394-3100
Email: Pablo.Clemente-Colon@natice.noaa.gov
Contact Address:
- National/Naval Ice Center
- NOAA Satellite Operations Facility (NSOF)
- 4251 Suitland Road
- Washington, D.C. 20395
City: Washington, D.C.
Postal Code: 20395
Country: USA
NSIDC User Services
Role: TECHNICAL CONTACT
Phone: 1 303 492-6199 x
Fax: 1 303 492-2468 x
Email: nsidc@nsidc.org
Contact Address:
- National Snow and Ice Data Center
- CIRES, 449 UCB
- University of Colorado
City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA
Matthew Savoie
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Email: savoie@nsidc.org
Contact Address:
- National Snow and Ice Data Center
- CIRES, 449 UCB
- University of Colorado
City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA
Sean Helfrich
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Email: shelfrich@natice.noaa.gov
Contact Address:
- NOAA
- National Ice Center (NIC)
Related URL
VIEW PROJECT HOME PAGE
IMS Products at NIC
VIEW PROJECT HOME PAGE
NIC Ice Analysis Products
VIEW PROJECT HOME PAGE
Rutgers University Global Snow Lab
VIEW PROJECT HOME PAGE
The SEARCH Sea Ice Outlook
VIEW RELATED INFORMATION
IMS Daily Northern Hemisphere Snow and Ice Analysis
VIEW RELATED INFORMATION
NIC Arctic Sea Ice Charts and Climatologies
VIEW RELATED INFORMATION
Northern Hemisphere EASE-Grid Weekly Snow Cover and Sea Ice Extent
VIEW RELATED INFORMATION
Sea Ice Charts of the Russian Arctic, 1933-2006
VIEW RELATED INFORMATION
Sea Ice Edge Location and Extent in the Russian Arctic, 1933-2006
VIEW RELATED INFORMATION
Sea Ice Index
Reference
Arctic Climatology Project. 2000. Environmental Working Group joint U.S.-Russian sea ice atlas. Edited by F. Tanis and V. Smolyanitsky. Ann Arbor, MI: Environmental Research Institute of Michigan in association with the National Snow and Ice Data Center. CD-ROM.
Fetterer, F., compiler. 2006. A selection of documentation related to National Ice Center sea ice charts in digital format. NSIDC Special Report 13. Boulder, CO, USA: National Snow and Ice Data Center. Fetterer, F., K. Knowles, W. Meier, and M. Savoie. 2002, updated 2009. Sea Ice Index, Boulder, Colorado USA: National Snow and Ice Data Center. Digital media. Helfrich, S.R., D. McNamara, B.H. Ramsay, T. Baldwin, and T. Kasheta. 2007. Enhancements to, and forthcoming developments to the Interactive Multisensor Snow and Ice Mapping System (IMS), Hydrological Processes 21: 12, 1576-1586. McKenna, P., and W. N. Meier. 2002. SSM/I sea ice algorithm inter-comparison: Operational case studies from the National Ice Center, IGARSS Proceedings, INT_A32_04, Toronto, 24-28 June 2002.
Meier, W. N, M. L. van Woert, and C. Bertoia. 2001. Evaluation of operational SSM/I ice concentration algorithms, Ann. Glaciology, 33, 102-108.
Meier, Walter, 2005. Comparison of Passive Microwave Ice Concentration Algorithm Retrievals With AVHRR Imagery in Arctic Peripheral Seas. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol 40, No. 6, pp 1324-1334.
Meier, W. N., F. Fetterer, C. Fowler, P. Clemente-Colón, T. Street, Operational sea ice charts: An integrated data product suitable for observing long-term changes in Arctic sea ice? Poster presented at the AGU Fall Meeting, 2006, and available on the NSIDC Posters and Presentations page. Meier, W. N., T. Maksym and M.L. Van Woert, Evaluation of Arctic operational passive microwave products: a case study in the Barents Sea during October 2001. Ice in the Environment: Proceedings of the 16th IAHR International Symposium on Ice, Dunedin, New Zealand, 2nd-6th December 2002, International Association of Hydraulic Engineering and Research
National Ice Center. 2006. National Ice Center Arctic sea ice charts and climatologies in gridded format. Edited and compiled by F. Fetterer and C. Fowler. Boulder, Colorado USA: National Snow and Ice Data Center. Digital media.
Partington, K., T. Flynn, D. Lamb, C. Bertoia, and K. Dedrick., 2003. Late twentieth century Northern Hemisphere sea-ice record from U.S. National Ice Center ice charts, J. Geophys. Res., 108, C11, 3343, doi:10.1029/2002JC001623.
Rayner, N. A., D. E. Parker, E. B. Horton, C. K. Folland, L.V. Alexander, D. P. Rowell, E. C. Kent, and A. Kaplan. 2003. Global analysis of sea surface temperature, sea ice, and night marine air temperature since the late nineteenth century. Journal of Geophysical Research. 108 (D14). doi:10.1029/2002JD002670.
Willis, Z. M, Foster, C. Bertoia, and K. Dedrick. 2000. National Ice Center/Naval Ice Center support to submarine operations Undersea Warfare: Issue 8, pp. 18-21.
Metadata Name and Version
Metadata Name: CEOS IDN DIF
Metadata Version: 9.7
Creation and Review Dates
DIF Creation Date: 2010-12-14
Last DIF Revision Date: 2013-03-12
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