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Overview

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) team at NSIDC manages, archives, and publishes data sets with an emphasis on in situ data, data sets from operational communities such as the U.S. Navy, and digitizing old and sometimes forgotten but valuable analog data. We also help develop educational pages, contribute to larger center-wide projects, and support the Roger G. Barry Resource Office for Cryospheric Studies (ROCS) at NSIDC.


Featured NOAA@NSIDC Products


  • Sea Ice Index

    Sea Ice Index
    Images from passive microwave satellite data that depict current and past sea ice conditions.
  • Glacier Photo Collection

    Qorikalis Glacier
    An online, searchable collection of photographs of glaciers.
  • Virtual Globes

    Virtual Globes
    Resource for Google Earth KML files that enable users to view snow and ice images on a Virtual Globe.
  • World Glacier Inventory

    World Glacier Inventory
    Contains information on over 100,000 glaciers throughout the world.
  • NIC Sea Ice Charts

    NIC Sea Ice Charts
    Arctic sea ice concentration climatology derived from the NIC operational ice-chart time series.
  • CIS Sea Ice Charts

    CIS Sea Ice Charts
    CIS Arctic regional sea ice charts for marine navigation, climate research, and input to the GDSIDB.

 

Sponsors

NSIDC was established at the University of Colorado in 1982 by NOAA's National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) to serve as a national information and referral center for polar research. While NSIDC is not part of NOAA, we are affiliated with the NOAA National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) through a cooperative agreement and archive and distribute our NOAA data in partnership with NGDC. NOAA@NSIDC activities are made possible by support from NOAA/NESDIS/NGDC and the NOAA Arctic Research Program.

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News from NOAA@NSIDC

 About RSS @ NSIDC

 May 2010

The NOAA@NSIDC team has just added 500 glacier photographs to the NSIDC Glacier Photograph Collection that were taken from space.

Now, when you pick up your high-resolution photo orders from the FTP site, a metadata file in ASCII text format (.txt) is provided with each photograph.

 April 2010

Defense and intelligence services data were featured in the TakePart.com article, "Global Warming: The Military's Other Enemy.


See Also

An information resource for people studying Earth's frozen regions, the history of science, or past climate related to the cryosphere.

Links to other NOAA Web sites regarding polar research, snow and ice analysis, and data management.


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