NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC)

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NSIDC DAAC would like to announce a change to data access for the MEaSUREs Global Record of Daily Landscape Freeze/Thaw Status, Version 4 data set. Data access is now solely through our primary archive at: https://n5eil01u.ecs.nsidc.org/MEASURES/NSIDC-0477.004/.

The NASA IceBridge CryoSat-2 Level-4 Sea Ice Elevation, Freeboard, and Thickness data set available at the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC) has been updated through 22 October 2017.

Data Set DOI: https://doi.org/10.5067/96JO0KIFDAS8

Three High Mountain Asia (HMA) 8-meter Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) are now available at the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC). The DEMs are generated from very-high-resolution imagery from DigitalGlobe satellites during the period of 28 January 2002 to 24 November 2016 and cover the spatial region from Tien Shan and Hindu Kush to Eastern Himalaya.

The MEaSUREs Annual Antarctic Ice Velocity Maps 2005-2017, Version 1 data set at the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC) has been updated with velocity maps for 2017. These data are generated through a grant from the NASA Making Earth System Data Records for Use in Research Environments (MEaSUREs) Program.

Data Set DOI: https://doi.org/10.5067/9T4EPQXTJYW9

The Polar Pathfinder Daily 25 km EASE-Grid Sea Ice Motion Vectors data set available at the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC) has been updated through 28 February 2017.

Data Set DOI: https://doi.org/10.5067/O57VAIT2AYYY

The EASE-Grid Sea Ice Age data set available at the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC) has been updated through 28 February 2017.

Data Set DOI: https://doi.org/10.5067/PFSVFZA9Y85G

The DMSP SSM/I-SSMIS Pathfinder Daily EASE-Grid Brightness Temperatures data set available at the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC) has been updated through 30 September 2017.

Data Set DOI: https://doi.org/10.5067/3EX2U1DV3434

The DMSP SSM/I-SSMIS Daily Polar Gridded Brightness Temperatures data set available at the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC) has been updated through 30 September 2017.

Data Set DOI: https://doi.org/10.5067/AN9AI8EO7PX0

The NASA IceBridge KT19 IR Surface Temperature data set available at the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC) has been updated through 18 November 2016.

Data Set DOI: https://doi.org/10.5067/I883KXU7ZO8O

The NASA IceBridge UAF Lidar Scanner L1B Geolocated Surface Elevation Triplets data set available at the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC) has been updated through 28 August 2017.

Data Set DOI: https://doi.org/10.5067/AATE4JJ91EHC

The Bootstrap Sea Ice Concentrations from Nimbus-7 SMMR and DMSP SSM/I-SSMIS data set available at the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC) has been updated to Version 3. The following changes were made to this version of data:

Version 1 of the VIIRS/NPP Sea Ice Cover 6-Min L2 Swath 375 m (VNP29) data set is now available at the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC).

The NASA IceBridge Ku-Band Radar L1B Geolocated Radar Echo Strength Profiles data set available at the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC) has been updated through 18 November 2016.

Data Set DOI: https://doi.org/10.5067/D7DX7J7J5JN9

The September 2017 data is now available for the MEaSUREs Greenland Image Mosaics from Sentinel-1A and 1B, Version 2 data set at the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC). This data set is part of the Making Earth System Data Records for Use in Research Environments (MEaSUREs) Program.

Data Set DOI: https://doi.org/10.5067/GPVL3SACPBW4

MEaSUREs Annual Greenland Outlet Glacier Terminus Positions from SAR Mosaics, Version 1 data set is now available at the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC) as version 1.2. For this minor version, glaciers were added to two winters:
2006/2007 -- glaciers 90 and 91
2008/2009 -- glaciers 1-9, 90, and 91

This data set is part of the Making Earth System Data Records for Use in Research Environments (MEaSUREs) Program.

NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC) would like to announce new updates for MEaSUREs Greenland Ice Velocity: Selected Glacier Site Velocity Maps from Optical Images, Version 2. The updates include the following:

NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC) would like to announce new data available for MEaSUREs Greenland Image Mosaics from Sentinel-1A and 1B, Version 2 data set. August 2017 data has been added.

This data set is part of the Making Earth System Data Records for Use in Research Environments (MEaSUREs) Program.

Data Set DOI: https://doi.org/10.5067/GPVL3SACPBW4

The NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC) has added SMMR data to the MEaSUREs Calibrated Enhanced-Resolution Passive Microwave Daily EASE-Grid 2.0 Brightness Temperature ESDR, Version 1 data set.

Also, the F10 data from this data set is now available at version 1.2. The minor change in this version corrects the handling of QC flags to retain more data, eliminating only the flagged data in a given channel and taking care not to eliminate data in other channels.

NSIDC DAAC would like to announce a change to data access for the MEaSUREs Multi-year Greenland Ice Sheet Velocity Mosaic, Version 1 data set. Data access is now solely available through our primary archive at: https://n5eil01u.ecs.nsidc.org/MEASURES/NSIDC-0670.001/.