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

  
  Images from passive microwave satellite data that depict current and past sea ice conditions.

• Glacier Photo Collection

  
  An online, searchable collection of photographs of glaciers.

• Virtual Globes

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

• World Glacier Inventory

  
  Contains information on over 100,000 glaciers throughout the world.

• NIC Sea Ice Charts

  
  Arctic sea ice concentration climatology derived from the NIC operational ice-chart time series.

• 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.