November, 2013
So, you’ve decided to download some data from NSIDC. You click on the ‘Get Data’ button, eagerly anticipating getting your data, and you find…a form. Why do you need to tell us who you are before you download the data? Well, you don’t need to tell us who you are (you may bypass the form… Read more »
How do I differentiate between sea ice data sets? Which ones have file formats that are easy for me to use? How many ice velocity data sets are offered at NSIDC? What are my options for downloading the data? NSIDC has been busily working to develop a Web tool to answer these questions and more…. Read more »
Soil moisture is a key variable in understanding land surface hydrology and in modeling ecosystems, weather, and climate. Among NSIDC’s most popular data sets is the “AMSR-E/Aqua Daily L3 Surface Soil Moisture, Interpretive Parameters, & QC EASE-Grids” (AE_Land3) data set. This data set is distributed in HDF-EOS format and one of the biggest hurdles encountered… Read more »
NASA Aquarius Level-2 and Level-3 Soil Moisture data are now available from NSIDC. For documentation, and to access the data, see the Aquarius Soil Moisture data sets page.
NASA IceBridge WISE L2 Geolocated Ice Thickness and Surface Elevation data for 2013 Alaska are now available from NSIDC. For documentation, and to access the data, see the IceBridge WISE… Read more »
NASA IceBridge ATM L1B Elevation and Return Strength data for 2013 Arctic are now available from NSIDC. For documentation, and to access the data, see the IceBridge ATM L1B Elevation… Read more »
USGS glaciologist Bruce Molnia is a science advisor and contributor to the Roger G. Barry Archives and Resource Center (ARC) at NSIDC Glacier Photograph Collection. On Friday, 29 November, he… Read more »
Glaciers are rapidly shrinking around the world in response to a warming Earth. Many of them will disappear in the coming decades, after having persisted for thousands of years. The … Read more »
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