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NSIDC-0116.003Polar Pathfinder Daily 25 km EASE-Grid Sea Ice Motion VectorsTschudi, M., Fowler, C., Maslanik, J., Stewart, J. S. & Meier, W. N.Polar Pathfinder Daily 25 km EASE-Grid Sea Ice Motion Vectors2016-03-01Boulder, Colorado USANASA NSIDC DAAC: NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center3false10.5067/O57VAIT2AYYYhttps://nsidc.org/sites/default/files/nsidc-0116-v003-userguide_0.pdfNSIDC-0116Technical ContactNSIDCUser Servicesnsidc@nsidc.org1-303-492-61991-303-492-2468CIRES, 449 UCBUniversity of ColoradoBoulderCO80309-0449USAInvestigatorMarkTschudimark.tschudi@colorado.edu431 UCB
BoulderColorado80309-0431USAInvestigatorCharlesFowlerBoulderCOUSAInvestigatorWalterNMeierwalt@nsidc.orgBoudlerCO80309USAEARTH SCIENCECRYOSPHERESNOW/ICEICE VELOCITY EARTH SCIENCECRYOSPHERESEA ICESEA ICE MOTION EARTH SCIENCEOCEANSOCEAN WINDSSURFACE WINDS Climatology/Meteorology/AtmosphereAMSR-EAVHRRBuoysDAACEASE-Grid-projectEASE-Grid Sea Ice-projectEOSDISGriddedGridded DataIce MotionNASANASA PathfinderNCEP/NCAR Reanalysis DataNOAA/NASA PathfinderNSIDCPassive MicrowavePassive Microwave DataRemote SensingSea Ice MotionSea Ice PM Other-projectSea Ice Prediction Network-projectSea Ice VelocitySea Surface Wind SpeedsSMMRSMMR and SSM/I-SSMIS-projectSMMR/SSMIS EASE Snow&Ice-projectSSM/ISSMISSurface Windswind velocity as vectorsAMSR-EAdvanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer-EOSAVHRRAdvanced Very High Resolution RadiometerDRIFTING BUOYSSMMRScanning Multichannel Microwave RadiometerSSM/ISpecial Sensor Microwave/ImagerSSMISSpecial Sensor Microwave Imager/SounderAQUAEarth Observing System, AQUABUOYSDMSP 5D-2/F11Defense Meteorological Satellite Program-F11DMSP 5D-2/F13Defense Meteorological Satellite Program-F13DMSP 5D-2/F8Defense Meteorological Satellite Program-F8DMSP 5D-3/F17Defense Meteorological Satellite Program-F17NOAA-11National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration-11NOAA-12National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration-12NOAA-14National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration-14NOAA-9National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration-9Nimbus-7Nimbus-71978-10-252017-02-28deprecated48.490-180180-90-53.2028-180180OCEANARCTIC OCEANCONTINENTANTARCTICAGEOGRAPHIC REGIONARCTICGEOGRAPHIC REGIONPOLAR25 km25 km1 month25 km25 km1 day25 km25 km7 dayQuality information for this data set varies by sensor. Refer to the data set guide documentation for accuracy estimates of ice motion from each type of sensor.EnglishNASA NSIDC DAACNASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Centerhttps://nsidc.org/daacData Center ContactNSIDCUser Servicesnsidc@nsidc.org1-303-492-6199National Snow and Ice Data CenterCIRES, 449 UCBUniversity of ColoradoBoulderCO80309-0449USAFTP29 - 36 KBPNGFTP604 - 764 KBBinaryFTP14 - 319 KBASCIIFTP521 - 712 KBPSDCavalieri, D. J., C. L. Parkinson, P. Gloersen, J. C. Comiso, and H. J. Zwally. 1999. Deriving long-term time series of sea ice cover from satellite passive-microwave multisensor data sets, J. Geophys. Res., 104(C7), 15803-15814, doi:10.1029/1999JC900081.
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Schweiger, A., C. Fowler, J. Key, J. Maslanik, J. Francis, R. Armstrong, M. J. Brodzik, T. Scambos, T. Haran, M. Ortmeyer, S. Khalsa, D. Rothrock, and R. Weaver. 1999. P-Cube: A Multisensor Data Set for Polar Climate Research. Proceedings on the 5th Conference on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography, American Meteorological Society, Dallas, TX, 15-20 Jan., 136-141.
Thorndike, A. S., and R. Colony. 1982. Sea Ice Motion in Response to Geostrophic Winds. J. Geophys. Res. 87(C8):5845–5852, doi:10.1029/JC087iC08p05845.This data set provides daily sea ice motion vectors derived from a wide variety of sensors in both gridded and non-gridded (raw) files. For the gridded data, weekly and monthly mean fields are also provided for the entire time series—from November 1978 through May 2015. Browse images of these mean fields are also available.VIEW RELATED INFORMATIONhttps://nsidc.org/sites/default/files/nsidc-0116-v003-userguide_0.pdfPolar Pathfinder Daily 25 km EASE-Grid Sea Ice Motion Vectors, Version 3 User GuidePROJECT HOME PAGEhttp://nsidc.org/data/easeEASE-Grid Data USA/NASACEOS IDN DIFVERSION 9.92016-03-012026-03-03NSIDCVersion Summary<ul>
<li>Eliminated unrealistic AVHRR and IABP buoy velocities</li>
<li>Improved browse images</li>
<li>Reprocessed SSMI fields using GDAL map transformations on the DMSP SSM/I-SSMIS Daily Polar Gridded Brightness Temperatures Data Set, NSIDC-0001</li>
<li>Used the Sea Ice Concentrations from Nimbus-7 SMMR and DMSP SSM/I-SSMIS Passive Microwave Data Set, NSIDC-0051, to mask ice extent</li>
</ul>NSIDCMinor VersionNSIDCLevel of ServiceNo Data AccessNSIDCFull Dataset CitationTschudi, M., Fowler, C., Maslanik, J., Stewart, J. S. & Meier, W. N. (2016). <i>Polar Pathfinder Daily 25 km EASE-Grid Sea Ice Motion Vectors</i>. (NSIDC-0116, Version 3). [Data Set]. Boulder, Colorado USA. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. <a href="https://doi.org/10.5067/O57VAIT2AYYY">https://doi.org/10.5067/O57VAIT2AYYY</a>. [<i><describe subset used if applicable></i>].NSIDCRetiredtrue