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NSIDC archives and distributes a variety of data sets in the polar stereographic projection. This page provides short descriptions of the data sets and provides links to data documentation and data access. To access the documentation and order data for a particular data set, click on the data set title.

The products are grouped into the following categories:

Brightness Temperature Products

DIF ID Data Set Title
NSIDC-0001 DMSP SSM/I Daily Polar Gridded Brightness Temperatures
NSIDC-0077 Nimbus-5 ESMR Polar Gridded Brightness Temperatures
NSIDC-0080 Near-Real-Time DMSP SSM/I Daily Polar Gridded Brightness Temperatures
AE_SI6 AMSR-E/Aqua Daily L3 6.25 km 89 GHz Brightness Temperature Polar Grids
AE_SI12 AMSR-E/Aqua Daily L3 12.5 km Brightness Temperature, Sea Ice Concentration, & Snow Depth Polar Grids
AE_SI25 AMSR-E/Aqua Daily L3 25 km Brightness Temperature & Sea Ice Concentration Polar Grids

Sea Ice Products [top]

DIF ID Data Set Title
NSIDC-0002 DMSP SSM/I Daily and Monthly Polar Gridded Bootstrap Sea Ice Concentrations
NSIDC-0007 Nimbus-7 SMMR Polar Gridded Radiances and Sea Ice Concentrations
NSIDC-0009 Nimbus-5 ESMR Polar Gridded Sea Ice Concentrations
NSIDC-0051 Sea Ice Concentrations from Nimbus-7 SMMR and DMSP SSM/I Passive Microwave Data
NSIDC-0079 Bootstrap Sea Ice Concentrations from Nimbus-7 SMMR and DMSP SSM/I
NSIDC-0081 Near-Real-Time DMSP SSM/I Daily Polar Gridded Sea Ice Concentrations
AE_SI12 AMSR-E/Aqua Daily L3 12.5 km Brightness Temperature, Sea Ice Concentration, & Snow Depth Polar Grids
AE_SI25 AMSR-E/Aqua Daily L3 25 km Brightness Temperature & Sea Ice Concentration Polar Grids
G02135 Sea Ice Index

Snow Depth Products [top]
 

DIF ID Data Set Title
AE_SI12 AMSR-E/Aqua Daily L3 12.5 km Brightness Temperature, Sea Ice Concentration, & Snow Depth Polar Grids

Snow Melt Products [top]
 

DIF ID Data Set Title
NSIDC-0105 Snow Melt Onset Over Arctic Sea Ice from SMMR and SSM/I Brightness Temperatures

Ancillary Products [top]
 

DIF ID Data Set Title
NSIDC-0192 Sea Ice Trends and Climatologies from SMMR and SSM/I

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