G02186
Multisensor Analyzed Sea Ice Extent - Northern Hemisphere (MASIE-NH)
National Ice Center and NSIDC. Compiled by F. Fetterer, M. Savoie, S. Helfrich, and P. Clemente-Colón.
Multisensor Analyzed Sea Ice Extent - Northern Hemisphere (MASIE-NH)
2010-12-14
Boulder, Colorado USA
NSIDC: National Snow and Ice Data Center
http://nsidc.org/data/g02186.html
http://dx.doi.org/10.7265/N5GT5K3K
Investigator
Florence
Fetterer
fetterer@nsidc.org
National Snow and Ice Data Center
Boulder
CO
USA
Investigator
Pablo
Clemente-Colón
Pablo.Clemente-Colon@natice.noaa.gov
1 301 394-3100
National/Naval Ice Center
NOAA Satellite Operations Facility (NSOF)
4251 Suitland Road
Washington, D.C. 20395
Washington, D.C.
20395
USA
Technical Contact
NSIDC
User Services
nsidc@nsidc.org
1 303 492-6199 x
1 303 492-2468 x
National Snow and Ice Data Center
CIRES, 449 UCB
University of Colorado
Boulder
CO
80309-0449
USA
Investigator
Matthew
Savoie
savoie@nsidc.org
National Snow and Ice Data Center
CIRES, 449 UCB
University of Colorado
Boulder
CO
80309-0449
USA
Investigator
Sean
Helfrich
shelfrich@natice.noaa.gov
NOAA
National Ice Center (NIC)
EARTH SCIENCE
Cryosphere
Sea Ice
Ice Edges
EARTH SCIENCE
Cryosphere
Sea Ice
Ice Extent
EARTH SCIENCE
Cryosphere
Sea Ice
Ice Growth/Melt
EARTH SCIENCE
Oceans
Sea Ice
Ice Edges
EARTH SCIENCE
Oceans
Sea Ice
Ice Extent
EARTH SCIENCE
Oceans
Sea Ice
Ice Growth/Melt
Climatology/Meteorology/Atmosphere
Arctic Sea Ice
ICE EDGE
Sea Ice
Sea Ice Conditions
Sea Ice Extent
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
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
in work
0
90
-180
180
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
4 km
4 km
A quality assessment of this product has not been made.
English
NSIDC_NOAA
NSIDC
National Snow and Ice Data Center
http://nsidc.org
Data Center Contact
NSIDC
User Services
nsidc@nsidc.org
1 303 492-6199
1 303 492-2468
National Snow and Ice Data Center
CIRES, 449 UCB
University of Colorado
Boulder
CO
80309-0449
USA
NSIDC_NOAA
NSIDC National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
http://nsidc.org/noaa/
Data Center Contact
NSIDC NOAA
User Services
nsidc@nsidc.org
1 303 492-6199
1 303 492-2468
National Snow and Ice Data Center
CIRES, 449 UCB
University of Colorado
Boulder
CO
80309-0449
USA
FTP
128 - 37 MB
GeoTIFF
FTP
16 - 768 KB
PNG
FTP
16 KB
ASCII Text
FTP
32 KB
ESRI Shapefiles
FTP
516 MB
NetCDF
FTP
57 KB
Microsoft Excel
FTP
98 - 130 KB
KML
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
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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.
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 <a href="mailto:nsidc@nsidc.org">NSIDC User Services</a>.
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http://www.natice.noaa.gov/products/
NIC Ice Analysis Products
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http://climate.rutgers.edu/snowcover/
Rutgers University Global Snow Lab
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http://www.arcus.org/search/seaiceoutlook/
The SEARCH Sea Ice Outlook
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http://nsidc.org/data/g02156.html
IMS Daily Northern Hemisphere Snow and Ice Analysis
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http://nsidc.org/data/g02172.html
NIC Arctic Sea Ice Charts and Climatologies
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http://nsidc.org/data/nsidc-0046.html
Northern Hemisphere EASE-Grid Weekly Snow Cover and Sea Ice Extent
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http://nsidc.org/data/g02176.html
Sea Ice Charts of the Russian Arctic, 1933-2006
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http://nsidc.org/data/g02182.html
Sea Ice Edge Location and Extent in the Russian Arctic, 1933-2006
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http://nsidc.org/data/g02135.html
Sea Ice Index
CEOS IDN DIF
9.7
2010-12-14
2013-03-12
Updated citation. No QC needed.