Data Summaries

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
• Sea Ice Products
• Snow Depth Products
• Snow Melt Products
• Ancillary Products

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