NOAA/NSIDC Climate Data Record of Passive Microwave Sea Ice Concentration  View Catalog Page Entry ID
G02202
Summary
This data set provides a Climate Data Record (CDR) of sea ice concentration from passive microwave data. It provides a consistent, daily and monthly time series of sea ice concentrations from 09 July 1987 through 31 December 2007 for both the north and south polar regions on a 25 km x 25 km grid.
The NOAA/NSIDC CDR is based on the recommendations from the National Research Council (NRC) (2004). It is produced from gridded brightness temperatures from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) series of Special Sensor Microwave Imager (SSM/I) passive microwave radiometers: F-8, F-11, and F-13.
The NOAA/NSIDC CDR sea ice concentrations are an estimate of the fraction of ocean area covered by sea ice that is produced by combining concentration estimates created using two algorithms developed at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC): the NASA Team algorithm (Cavalieri et al., 1984) and the Bootstrap algorithm (Comiso, 1986). NSIDC applies the individual algorithms to brightness temperature data from Remote Sensing Systems, Inc. (RSS).
The data are gridded on the NSIDC polar stereographic grid with 25 x 25 km grid cells and are available in netCDF file format. Each file includes four different sea ice concentration variables: a variable with the primary CDR sea ice concentrations created by NSIDC and three variables with sea ice concentrations created by Goddard.
The three Goddard-produced sea ice concentrations are the Goddard NASA Team algorithm sea ice concentrations, the Goddard Bootstrap sea ice concentrations, and a merged version of the two sea ice concentrations. These Goddard-produced sea ice concentrations are included in the data files for a number of reasons. First, the merged Goddard NASA Team/Bootstrap sea ice concentrations are an ancillary data set that is analogous to the NOAA/NSIDC CDR data but that adds late 1978 through mid 1987 data to the record. A different instrument, the Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer (SMMR), was the source for the brightness temperatures from this period. Sea ice concentrations from the extended period are not part of the primary NSIDC-produced CDR record because complete documentation of the SMMR brightness temperature processing method is not available. Second, the separate Goddard NASA Team and Bootstrap sea ice concentrations are provided for reference.
Variables containing standard deviation, quality flags, and projection information are also included in the netCDF files.
Geographic Coverage
Spatial Coordinates:
N: -39.36°
S: -89.84°
E: 180°
W: -180°
N: 89.84°
S: 31.1°
E: 180°
W: -180°
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Data Set Citation
Dataset Creator: Meier, W., F. Fetterer, M. Savoie, S. Mallory, R. Duerr, and J. Stroeve.
Dataset Title: NOAA/NSIDC Climate Data Record of Passive Microwave Sea Ice Concentration
Dataset Release Date: 2011-09-20
Dataset Release Place: Boulder, Colorado USA
Dataset Publisher: NSIDC: National Snow and Ice Data Center
Online Resource: http://nsidc.org/data/g02202.html
Dataset DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7265/N5B56GN3
Temporal Coverage
Start Date: 1978-10-26
Stop Date: 2007-12-31
Data Resolution
Latitude Resolution: 25 km
Longitude Resolution: 25 km
Location Keywords
- CONTINENT ANTARCTICA
- GEOGRAPHIC REGION ARCTIC
- GEOGRAPHIC REGION POLAR
Science Keywords
- Cryosphere Sea Ice Sea Ice Concentration
- Oceans Sea Ice Sea Ice Concentration
Ancillary Keywords
- Antarctic
- Arctic
- Gridded Data
- Multiyear Sea Ice Concentration
- Passive Microwave
- Passive Microwave Data
- Passive Microwave Sea Ice Data
- Polar Stereographic
- Sea Ice Concentration
- Total Sea Ice Concentration
- Climatology/Meteorology/Atmosphere
Platform
- DMSP Defense Meteorological Satellite Program
- DMSP 5D-2/F11 Defense Meteorological Satellite Program-F11
- DMSP 5D-2/F13 Defense Meteorological Satellite Program-F13
- DMSP 5D-2/F8 Defense Meteorological Satellite Program-F8
- NIMBUS-7
Instrument
- SMMR Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer
- SSM/I Special Sensor Microwave/Imager
Data Set Progress
complete
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: 1.8 - 3.5 MB
Distribution Format: NetCDF
Personnel
Walt Meier
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Email: walt@nsidc.org
Contact Address:
- CIRES
- National Snow and Ice Data Center
- 449 UCB
- University of Colorado
City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309
Country: USA
F. Fetterer
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Email: fetterer@nsidc.org
Contact Address:
- CIRES
- National Snow and Ice Data Center
- 449 UCB
City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309
Country: USA
Ruth Duerr
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Phone: 1 303 735-0136 x
Email: rduerr@nsidc.org
Contact Address:
- Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, CU Boulder
- National Snow and Ice Data Center
- 449 University of Colorado at Boulder
City: Boulder
Province or State: Colorado
Postal Code: 80027
Country: USA
Julienne Stroeve
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Email: stroeve@nsidc.org
Contact Address:
- CIRES
- National Snow and Ice Data Center
- National Snow and Ice Data Center
- CIRES, 449 UCB
- University of Colorado
City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309
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 Mallory
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Email: sean.mallory@nsidc.com
Contact Address:
City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
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
Related URL
VIEW PROJECT HOME PAGE
Multi-sensor Analyzed Sea Ice Extent (MASIE)
VIEW PROJECT HOME PAGE
Multisensor Analyzed Sea Ice Extent - Northern Hemisphere (MASIE-NH)
VIEW PROJECT HOME PAGE
Sea Ice Index
VIEW RELATED INFORMATION
Bootstrap Sea Ice Concentrations from Nimbus-7 SMMR and DMSP SSM/I
VIEW RELATED INFORMATION
DMSP SSM/I-SSMIS Daily Polar Gridded Brightness Temperatures
VIEW RELATED INFORMATION
Sea Ice Concentrations from Nimbus-7 SMMR and DMSP SSM/I Passive Microwave Data
Reference
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Carsey, F. D. (Ed.). 1992. Microwave Remote Sensing of Sea Ice. American Geophysical Union, 462 pp. Cavalieri, D. J., C. L. Parkinson. Arctic and Antarctic Sea Ice Concentrations from Multichannel Passive-Microwave Satellite Data Sets: October 1978 - September 1995 - User's Guide. NASA Technical Memorandum 104647. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland.
Cavalieri, D. J., P. Gloersen, and W. J. Campbell. 1984. Determination of Sea Ice Parameters with the NIMBUS-7 SMMR. J. Geophys. Res., 89(D4): 5355-5369.
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Comiso, J. C., D. Cavalieri, C. Parkinson, and P. Gloersen. 1997. Passive Microwave Algorithms for Sea Ice Concentrations: A Comparison of Two Techniques. Rem. Sens. of the Environ., 60(3):357-384.
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Meier, W. N., M. Savoie, and S. Mallory. 2011a. CDR Climate Algorithm and Theoretical Basis Document: Passive Microwave Sea Ice Concentration. NOAA NCDC CDR Program.
Meier, W. N., and S. J. S. Khalsa. 2011b. Intersensor Calibration between F-13 SSM/I and F-17 SSMIS Near-Real-Time Sea Ice Estimates. Geoscience and Remote Sensing 49(9): 3343-3349.
Meier, W. N. 2005. Comparison of Passive Microwave Ice Concentration Algorithm Retrievals with AVHRR Imagery in Arctic Peripheral Seas. IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., 43(6): 1324-1337.
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.
Steffen, K., J. Key, D. J. Cavalieri, J. Comiso, P. Gloersen, K. St. Germain, and I. Rubinstein. 1992. The Estimation of Geophysical Parameters using Passive Microwave Algorithms, in 'Microwave Remote Sensing of Sea Ice.' F.D. Carsey, ed., American Geophysical Union Monograph 68, Washington, DC:201-231.
National Research Council of the National Academies. 2004. Climate Data Records from Environmental Satellites: Interim Report. National Academies Press, Washington, D.C., 150 pp.
Metadata Name and Version
Metadata Name: CEOS IDN DIF
Metadata Version: 9.7
Creation and Review Dates
DIF Creation Date: 2011-09-20
Last DIF Revision Date: 2013-03-27
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