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July 1, 2022

NSIDC DAAC Joins NASA’s EOSDIS Earthdata Forum

NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC) is pleased to announce its participation in NASA’s Earthdata Forum. Earthdata Forum provides a central online location… Read more »

September 21, 2018

New version available: Aquarius soil moisture data sets

All Aquarius soil moisture products have been updated to Version 5 and are now available from the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC)…. Read more »

August 24, 2018

New data set release: Aquarius L3 Weekly Polar-Gridded Landscape Freeze/Thaw Data, Version 5

The Aquarius L3 Weekly Polar-Gridded Landscape Freeze/Thaw Data, Version 5 data set is now available from the National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC). This Level-3 (L3)… Read more »

February 2, 2017

NSIDC Polaris Search and Order being Retired 15 February 2017

THE NSIDC Polaris Search and Order tool will be retired on 15 February 2017. Please contact NSIDC User Services via email: nsidc@nsidc.org with questions.

December 17, 2015

Version 5 Aquarius Polar-Gridded Data Now Available at NSIDC DAAC

The Aquarius polar-gridded Version 5 products are now available at the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC). These data sets include weekly polar-gridded… Read more »

October 5, 2015

New Version 4 Aquarius Soil Moisture Data, and New Soil Moisture Climatologies

Version 4 Aquarius L2 Swath Single Orbit Soil Moisture Data, and Version 4 Aquarius L3 Gridded 1-Degree Soil Moisture data are now available at the NASA National Snow and Ice… Read more »

July 1, 2015

Aquarius/SAC-D Mission Ends

Due to a power failure on the Satélite de Aplicaciones Científicas (SAC)-D spacecraft on 08 June 2015, data from NASA’s Aquarius instrument are no longer being produced. For more information… Read more »

November 24, 2014

New Version 3 Aquarius Level-3 Soil Moisture Data

Version 3 Aquarius L3 Gridded 1-Degree Soil Moisture data are now available at the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC). This data set… Read more »

November 24, 2014

New Version 3 Aquarius Level-2 Soil Moisture Data

Version 3 Aquarius L2 Swath Single Orbit Soil Moisture data are now available at the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC). This data… Read more »

July 24, 2014

New Aquarius L3 Weekly Polar-Gridded NRCS, SSS, and TB Data

NASA Aquarius level-3 weekly polar-gridded Normalized Radar Cross Section, Sea Surface Salinity, and Brightness Temperature data products are now available from NSIDC.  For documentation, and to access the data, see… Read more »

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