Data Summaries

The following data products at NSIDC are in the EASE-Grid projection. To access the documentation and data for a particular data set, click on the data set title.

The products are grouped into the following categories:

• Snow and Ice Products
• Brightness Temperature Products
• Snow Water Equivalent Products
• Composite Products
• Frozen Ground Data Center Products
• Other Data Products
• Ancillary Data

Snow and Ice Products

DIF ID	Data Set Title
NISE1	Near-Real-Time SSM/I EASE-Grid Daily Global Ice Concentration and Snow Extent
NSIDC-0046	Northern Hemisphere EASE-Grid Weekly Snow Cover and Sea Ice Extent
MYD29P1DV5	MODIS/Aqua Sea Ice Extent Daily L3 Global 1km EASE-Grid Day
MOD29P1DV5	MODIS/Terra Sea Ice Extent Daily L3 Global 1km EASE-Grid Day
MYD29P1NV5	MODIS/Aqua Sea Ice Extent Daily L3 Global 1km EASE-Grid Night
MOD29P1NV5	MODIS/Terra Sea Ice Extent Daily L3 Global 1km EASE-Grid Night
MYD29E1DV5	MODIS/Aqua Sea Ice Extent and IST Daily L3 Global 4km EASE-Grid Day
MOD29E1DV5	MODIS/Terra Sea Ice Extent and IST Daily L3 Global 4km EASE-Grid Day
NSIDC-0116	Polar Pathfinder Daily 25 km EASE-Grid Sea Ice Motion Vectors
G02175	Sea Ice Charts of the Russian Arctic in Gridded Format, 1933-2006
NSIDC-0050	Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI) 10-Day Arctic Ocean EASE-Grid Sea Ice Observations

 

Brightness Temperature Products [top]

DIF ID	Data Set Title
NSIDC-0032	DMSP SSM/I Pathfinder Daily EASE-Grid Brightness Temperatures
NSIDC-0342	Near-Real-Time DMSP SSM/I Pathfinder Daily EASE-Grid Brightness Temperatures
NSIDC-0071	Nimbus-7 SMMR Pathfinder Daily EASE-Grid Brightness Temperatures
NSIDC-0301	AMSR-E/Aqua Daily EASE-Grid Brightness Temperatures

 

Snow Water Equivalent (SWE) Products [top]

DIF ID	Data Set Title
NSIDC-0321	Global EASE-Grid 8-day Blended SSM/I and MODIS Snow Cover
AE_DYSNO	AMSR-E/Aqua Daily L3 Global Snow Water Equivalent EASE-Grids
AE_5DSNO	AMSR-E/Aqua 5-Day L3 Global Snow Water Equivalent EASE-Grids
NSIDC-0271	Global Monthly EASE-Grid Snow Water Equivalent Climatology

 

Composite Products [top]

DIF ID	Data Set Title
NSIDC-0065	AVHRR Polar Pathfinder Twice-Daily 1.25 km EASE-Grid Composites
NSIDC-0066	AVHRR Polar Pathfinder Twice-Daily 5 km EASE-Grid Composites
NSIDC-0094	AVHRR Polar Pathfinder Twice-Daily 25 km EASE-Grid Composites

 

Frozen Ground Data Center Products [top]

DIF ID	Data Set Title
GGD318	Circum-Arctic Map of Permafrost and Ground-Ice Conditions
GGD603	Maps of Geocryological Regions and Classifications in China
GGD618	Map of Natural (Landscape) and Permafrost Zones and the Net of Soil Temperature Meteorological Stations in Russia and Middle Asian Mountains
GGD641	Arctic Soil Freeze/Thaw Status from SSM/I

 

Other Products [top]

DIF ID	Data Set Title
AE_LAND3	AMSR-E/Aqua Daily L3 Surface Soil Moisture, Interpretive Parms, & QC EASE-Grids
NSIDC-0027	TOVS Pathfinder Path-P Daily and Monthly Polar Gridded Atmospheric Parameters
NSIDC-0069	Polar Pathfinder Sampler: Combined AVHRR, SMMR-SSM/I, and TOVS Time Series and Full-Resolution Samples

 

Ancillary Data [top]

Ancillary data are provided on the Ancillary Data Web page. These data sets were derived from external data sources and then gridded to the EASE-Grid. These data sets help to answer questions like what percentage of the EASE-Grid pixels are a particular type of land cover classification and what is the average elevation at each EASE-Grid pixel.