NOAA/NSIDC Climate Data Record of Passive Microwave Sea Ice Concentration  View Catalog Page
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NOAA/NSIDC Climate Data Record of Passive Microwave Sea Ice Concentration
Contact:
Responsible Party:
Individual Name: NSIDC User Services
Organization Name: National Snow and Ice Data Center
Contact:
Contact Phone:
Contact Voice Telephone: 1 303 492-6199 x
Contact Address:
Delivery Point: CIRES, 449 UCB
City: Boulder
Administrative Area: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA
Email: nsidc@nsidc.org
Contact Online Resources:
Website: http://nsidc.org
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Date Stamp:
2013-05-07
Metadata Standard Name:
ISO 19115 Geographic Information - Metadata First Edition
Metadata Standard Version:
ISO 19115:2003
Dataset URI:
http://nsidc.org/data/g02202.html
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Data Identification Information:
Citation:
Citation Information:
Title: NOAA/NSIDC Climate Data Record of Passive Microwave Sea Ice Concentration
Date:
Date: 2011
Date Type:
Value: publication
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Edition Date: 2011-09-20
Identifier: G02202
Identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.7265/N5B56GN3
Cited Responsible Party: Responsible Party:
Individual Name: NSIDC User Services
Organization Name: National Snow and Ice Data Center
Contact:
Contact Phone:
Contact Voice Telephone: 1 303 492-6199
Contact Address:
Delivery Point: National Snow and Ice Data Center
City: Boulder
Administrative Area: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA
Email: nsidc@nsidc.org
Contact Online Resources:
Website: http://nsidc.org
Contact Role:
Value: custodian
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Responsible Party:
Individual Name: NSIDC NOAA User Services
Organization Name: NSIDC National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Contact:
Contact Phone:
Contact Voice Telephone: 1 303 492-6199
Contact Address:
Delivery Point: National Snow and Ice Data Center
City: Boulder
Administrative Area: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA
Email: nsidc@nsidc.org
Contact Online Resources:
Website: http://nsidc.org/noaa/
Contact Role:
Value: custodian
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Abstract:
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.
Purpose:
Scientific Research
Credit:
The following example shows how to cite the use of this data set in a publication. For more information, see our Use and Copyright Web page.
Meier, W., F. Fetterer, M. Savoie, S. Mallory, R. Duerr, and J. Stroeve. 2011. NOAA/NSIDC Climate Data Record of Passive Microwave Sea Ice Concentration. [indicate subset used]. Boulder, Colorado USA: National Snow and Ice Data Center. http://dx.doi.org/10.7265/N5B56GN3.
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Point of Contact:
Responsible Party:
Individual Name: Walt Meier
Organization Name: CIRES
Contact:
Contact Address:
Delivery Point: 449 UCB
City: Boulder
Administrative Area: CO
Postal Code: 80309
Country: USA
Email: walt@nsidc.org
Contact Role:
Value: principalInvestigator
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Responsible Party:
Individual Name: F. Fetterer
Organization Name: CIRES
Contact:
Contact Address:
Delivery Point: 449 UCB
City: Boulder
Administrative Area: CO
Postal Code: 80309
Country: USA
Email: fetterer@nsidc.org
Contact Role:
Value: principalInvestigator
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Responsible Party:
Individual Name: Ruth Duerr
Organization Name: Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, CU Boulder
Contact:
Contact Phone:
Contact Voice Telephone: 1 303 735-0136 x
Contact Address:
Delivery Point: 449 University of Colorado at Boulder
City: Boulder
Administrative Area: Colorado
Postal Code: 80027
Country: USA
Email: rduerr@nsidc.org
Contact Role:
Value: principalInvestigator
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Responsible Party:
Individual Name: Julienne Stroeve
Organization Name: CIRES
Contact:
Contact Address:
Delivery Point: National Snow and Ice Data Center
City: Boulder
Administrative Area: CO
Postal Code: 80309
Country: USA
Email: stroeve@nsidc.org
Contact Role:
Value: principalInvestigator
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Responsible Party:
Individual Name: Matthew Savoie
Organization Name: National Snow and Ice Data Center
Contact:
Contact Address:
Delivery Point: CIRES, 449 UCB
City: Boulder
Administrative Area: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA
Email: savoie@nsidc.org
Contact Role:
Value: principalInvestigator
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Responsible Party:
Individual Name: Sean Mallory
Organization Name: CIRES
Contact:
Contact Address:
City: Boulder
Administrative Area: CO
Country: USA
Email: sean.mallory@nsidc.com
Contact Role:
Value: principalInvestigator
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Responsible Party:
Individual Name: NSIDC User Services
Organization Name: National Snow and Ice Data Center
Contact:
Contact Phone:
Contact Voice Telephone: 1 303 492-6199 x
Contact Address:
Delivery Point: CIRES, 449 UCB
City: Boulder
Administrative Area: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA
Email: nsidc@nsidc.org
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Contact:
Responsible Party:
Individual Name: NSIDC User Services
Organization Name: National Snow and Ice Data Center
Contact:
Contact Phone:
Contact Voice Telephone: 1 303 492-6199 x
Contact Address:
Delivery Point: CIRES, 449 UCB
City: Boulder
Administrative Area: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA
Email: nsidc@nsidc.org
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Website: http://nsidc.org
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Descriptive Keywords:
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Keyword: Continent > Antarctica
Keyword: Geographic Region > Arctic
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Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Sea Ice > Sea Ice Concentration
Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Sea Ice > Sea Ice Concentration
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Keyword: Antarctic
Keyword: Arctic
Keyword: Gridded Data
Keyword: Multiyear Sea Ice Concentration
Keyword: Passive Microwave
Keyword: Passive Microwave Data
Keyword: Passive Microwave Sea Ice Data
Keyword: Polar Stereographic
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Keyword: Total Sea Ice Concentration
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Spatial Temporal Extent:
Geographic Element:
Bounding Coordinates:
Westbound Longitude: -180
Eastbound Longitude: 180
Southbound Latitude: -89.84
Northbound Latitude: 89.84
Temporal Element:
Time Period:
Begin Position: 19781026
End Position: 20071231
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Distribution Information:
Distributor Information:
Distributor Contact:
Responsible Party:
Individual Name: NSIDC User Services
Organization Name: National Snow and Ice Data Center
Contact:
Contact Phone:
Contact Voice Telephone: 1 303 492-6199
Contact Address:
Delivery Point: National Snow and Ice Data Center
City: Boulder
Administrative Area: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA
Email: nsidc@nsidc.org
Contact Online Resources:
Website: http://nsidc.org
Contact Role:
Value: custodian
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Responsible Party:
Individual Name: NSIDC NOAA User Services
Organization Name: NSIDC National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Contact:
Contact Phone:
Contact Voice Telephone: 1 303 492-6199
Contact Address:
Delivery Point: National Snow and Ice Data Center
City: Boulder
Administrative Area: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA
Email: nsidc@nsidc.org
Contact Online Resources:
Website: http://nsidc.org/noaa/
Contact Role:
Value: custodian
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Distribution Format(s):
Data File Format:
Name: NetCDF
Specification: FTP 1.8 - 3.5 MB
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Online Resources:
Linkage: ftp://sidads.colorado.edu/pub/DATASETS/NOAA/G02202/
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Linkage: http://nsidc.org/data/docs/noaa/g02202_ice_conc_cdr/index.html
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Data Acquisition Information:
Instrument Information:
Instrument:
Name: SMMR > Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer
Type: sensor
Instrument:
Name: SSM/I > Special Sensor Microwave/Imager
Type: sensor
Platform Information:
Platform:
Name: DMSP > Defense Meteorological Satellite Program
Description: satellite
Instrument: N/A
Platform:
Name: DMSP 5D-2/F11 > Defense Meteorological Satellite Program-F11
Description: satellite
Instrument: N/A
Platform:
Name: DMSP 5D-2/F13 > Defense Meteorological Satellite Program-F13
Description: satellite
Instrument: N/A
Platform:
Name: DMSP 5D-2/F8 > Defense Meteorological Satellite Program-F8
Description: satellite
Instrument: N/A
Platform:
Name: NIMBUS-7
Description: satellite
Instrument: N/A
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