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The MEaSUREs Greenland Ice Sheet Velocity Map from InSAR Data, Version 2 data set has been updated to include data from Winter 2017/2018 and is available from the National Snow… Read more »
Data Announcements
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 National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC). These… Read more »
New data set release: IceBridge Narrow Swath ATM L1B Elevation and Return Strength with Waveforms, Version 1
The IceBridge Narrow Swath ATM L1B Elevation and Return Strength with Waveforms data set is now available from the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center… Read more »
Data set update: Reprocessing is complete for SMAP levels 1-4 data
The SMAP Data System (SDS) has finished reprocessing the new versions of selected SMAP levels 1-4 data sets. The entire temporal coverage is now available at the NASA National Snow… Read more »
New data set release: SnowEx17 Ground Penetrating Radar Raw, Version 1
The SnowEx17 Ground Penetrating Radar Raw data set is now available from the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC). This data set contains… Read more »
Level of service update: ASO L4 Lidar Snow Depth 3m UTM Grid, Version 1
The ASO L4 Lidar Snow Depth 3m UTM Grid data set has been updated from a basic to a standard level of service at the NASA National Snow and Ice… Read more »
SCICEX 2011 and 2014 Sea Ice Draft Data and 2016 Bathymetry Data Released
The Submarine Arctic Science Program (SCICEX) is pleased to announce the re-release of sea ice draft data from the 2011 USS Connecticut and USS New Hampshire SCICEX campaign. These data… Read more »
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 »
Early data set release: IceBridge-Related Sander AIRGrav L1B Geolocated Free Air Gravity Anomalies, Version 1
The IceBridge-Related Sander AIRGrav L1B Geolocated Free Air Gravity Anomalies data set is now available at the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC)… Read more »
Data set update: IceBridge ATM L4 Surface Elevation Rate of Change, Version 1
The IceBridge ATM L4 Surface Elevation Rate of Change data set has been updated to include measurement comparisons of 2017 data to earlier years over Greenland at the NASA National… Read more »
