DMSP SSM/I Daily and Monthly Polar Gridded Bootstrap Sea Ice Concentrations

Data Contributors

COMISO, JOSEPHINO 'JOEY' C.
CAVALIERI, DONALD
GLOERSEN, PER
ZWALLY, H. JAY

Parameters

ICE EXTENT
SEA ICE AGE
SEA ICE CONCENTRATION > MULTIYEAR SEA ICE CONCENTRATION, TOTAL SEA ICE CONCENTRATION, MULTIYEAR SEA ICE CONCENTRATION, TOTAL SEA ICE CONCENTRATION

Instruments

SSM/I : SPECIAL SENSOR MICROWAVE/IMAGER

Notice to Data Users: Processing of this data set is temporarily suspended due to the loss of the DMSP F-13 satellite. NSIDC is working with our data source, Remote Sensing Systems (RSS), to acquire data for this product from the DMSP F-17 satellite. We hope to have the data processed and available by late Spring 2010. In the meantime, F-17 data are available for the Near-Real-Time DMSP SSM/I-SSMIS Daily Polar Gridded Sea Ice Concentrations data set.

DMSP SSM/I Daily and Monthly Polar Gridded Bootstrap Sea Ice Concentrations in polar stereographic projection currently include Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) -F8, -F11, and -F13 daily and monthly sea ice concentrations. Using the Bootstrap algorithm, data gridded at a resolution of 25 x 25 km, begin 25 June 1987. Processing is ongoing. The Special Sensor Microwave Imager (SSM/I) derived ice concentrations are daily total and monthly averaged ice fractions for both hemispheres. The data are provided in Hierarchical Data Format (HDF), with accompanying Graphical Interchange Format (GIF) browse files and are available via FTP. Note: Users interested in sea ice concentration using the NASA Team algorithm are advised to use Sea Ice Concentrations from Nimbus-7 SMMR and DMSP SSM/I Passive Microwave Data.

Data Citation

DMSP SSM/I Daily and Monthly Polar Gridded Bootstrap Sea Ice Concentrations