Other Data Sources
Following is a list of other sources of sea ice data and information. If there are any other resources you would like to see linked here, please contact NSIDC User Services.
| Source | Products |
|---|---|
| Alaska Satellite Facility (ASF) SAR Data Center | Specializes in high-latitude Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data collection, processing, archiving, and distribution. |
| Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI) | Russian research institute dedicated to the field of comprehensive studies of the Arctic and Antarctica. |
| Arctic Climate System Study (ACSYS) Historical Ice Chart Archive | Historical sea ice observations in the Arctic region between 30° W and 70° E in the form of digitized maps, stored as shape files. |
| Antarctic Sea Ice Processes and Climate (ASPeCt) | Expert group on multi-disciplinary Antarctic sea ice zone research within the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) Physical Sciences program. |
| Brigham Young University (BYU) NASA Scatterometer Climate Record Pathfinder (SCP) | The NASA Scatterometer Climate Record Pathfinder (SCP) is a NASA-sponsored project to develop scatterometer-based data time series to support climate studies of the cryosphere and biosphere. |
| Canadian Ice Service (CIS) | Historical ice data, including microfilm charts, digital data, aircraft and satellite photography, radar imagery, real-time and climatological ice information, and field services. |
| Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) | Ice mass balance buoy data. |
| The Cryosphere Today | A Web site devoted to the current state of the cryosphere. |
| Danish Center for Remote Sensing (DCRS) | Near-real-time SSM/I F-13 and F-14, Quikscat, and AVHRR sea ice data. |
| Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency of Germany | Polar Sea Ice Concentration and Extent: Near-real-time and monthly charts since 1978 (generated from data provided by NSIDC). |
| French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea (IFREMER) | Backscatter maps from scatterometry data. |
| Global Digital Sea Ice Bank (GDSIDB) | Large collection of sea ice data and charts. |
| IARC-JAXA Sea Ice Monitor | IARC-JAXA Information System Arctic sea ice monitor using AMSR-E data. |
| International Ice Patrol (IIP) | Iceberg tracking and ice limits for the Arctic. Note: IIP does not provide sea ice information. |
| Lars Kaleschke's Seaice.de Web page | Near-real-time 12.5 km resolution sea ice concentration maps calculated from the ARTIST Sea Ice (ASI) algorithm. |
| Met Office Hadley Centre Sea Ice and Sea Surface Temperature data set (HadISST) | A unique combination of monthly globally-complete fields of sea surface temperature and sea ice concentration on a one degree latitude/longitude grid from 1870 to date. |
| MODIS Rapid Response System: Antarctica | Generates complete mosaic images of Antarctica every day from 04 December 2008 to the present. |
| MODIS Rapid Response System: Arctic | Generates complete mosaic images of the Arctic every day from 18 March 2009 to the present. |
| NASA Goddard Sea Ice Remote Sensing | Conducts basic research about the study of the long-term variability of the polar sea ice cover and its relationship to climate change, the study of air-sea-ice interactions at polar latitudes, and the development and validation of sea ice algorithms. |
| National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) Marine Modeling and Analysis Branch (MMAB) Sea Ice Home Page | Graphics of monthly Antarctic sea ice concentration plus links to other sea ice resources. |
| Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center (NERSC) Arctic Regional Ocean Observing System (ROOS) | Arctic ROOS promotes, develops, and maintains operational monitoring and forecasting of ocean circulation, water masses, ocean surface conditions, sea ice, and biological/chemical constituents. |
| National Ice Center (NIC) | Digital sea ice charts for the eastern and western Arctic and Antarctica. |
| National Weather Service (NWS) Forecast Office: Anchorage, AK | Daily sea surface temperature and sea ice analysis for Alaska. |
| Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center (PO.DAAC) at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) | Global QuikSCAT sigma-0 sea ice browse images produced by David Long at Brigham Young University. |
| RADARSAT Geophysical Processing System (RGPS) | RGPS produces sea ice motion, deformation, and estimates of thickness from RADARSAT imagery. |
| University of Bremen AMSR-E sea ice charts | High-resolution AMSR-E 89 GHz sea ice images. |
| University of Washington Polar Science Center (PSC) | Oceanographic data, IABP buoy data, POLES, SHEBA, TOVS, PHC, and SCICEX data. |
