• The NSIDC DAAC is retiring access to its legacy, on-premises data archive and transitioning to the NASA Earthdata Cloud as the primary data archive. View planned retirement dates here.

MEaSUREs

Making Earth System Data Records for Use in Research Environments
In this section

Documentation

User Guide

MEaSUREs ITS_LIVE Antarctic Annual 240 m Ice Sheet Extent Masks, 1997-2021, Version 1 User Guide
MEaSUREs ITS_LIVE Antarctic Quarterly 1920 m Ice Shelf Height Change and Basal Melt Rates, 1992-2017, Version 1 User Guide
MEaSUREs ITS_LIVE Greenland Monthly 120 m Ice Sheet Extent Masks, 1972-2022, Version 1 User Guide
MEaSUREs ITS_LIVE Regional Glacier and Ice Sheet Surface Velocities, Version 2 User Guide
MEaSUREs Multi-year Greenland Ice Sheet Velocity Mosaic, Version 1 User Guide

ATBDs

Calibrated Passive Microwave Daily EASE-Grid 2.0 Brightness Temperature ESDR (CETB) ATBD
Climate Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document (C-ATBD) Northern Hemisphere Snow Cover Extent
Greenland Ice Mapping Project 2 (GIMP-2) Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document
MEaSUREs - Radar Mosaics
NSIDC-0450 Technical Reference

General Resources

A Global Data Record of Daily Landscape Freeze/Thaw status Version 5.0
Calving Front Machine (CALFIN): glacial termini dataset and automated deep learning extraction method for Greenland, 1972–2019
Daily Global Land Parameters Derived from AMSR-E and AMSR2 Version 3.1
NSIDC-0451 Daily Global Land Parameters Derived from AMSR-E and AMSR2 V2
NSIDC-0481 Temporal Coverage by Grid and by Year
Polar Enhanced Resolution Freeze/Thaw Data Record from AMSR-E and AMSR2 Version 2.0
Scientific publication: Wrzesien et al. (2018), Geophysical Research Letters
Supplement of Calving Front Machine (CALFIN): glacial termini dataset and automated deep learning extraction method for Greenland, 1972–2019
Technical Reference for NSIDC-0431
Technical Reference for NSIDC-0432
Technical reference for NSIDC-0754