Polar Pathfinder Daily 25 km EASE-Grid Sea Ice Motion Vectors, Version 3
Data set id:
NSIDC-0116
DOI: 10.5067/O57VAIT2AYYY
There is a more recent version of these data.
Version Summary
Version Summary
- Eliminated unrealistic AVHRR and IABP buoy velocities
- Improved browse images
- Reprocessed SSMI fields using GDAL map transformations on the DMSP SSM/I-SSMIS Daily Polar Gridded Brightness Temperatures Data Set, NSIDC-0001
- Used the Sea Ice Concentrations from Nimbus-7 SMMR and DMSP SSM/I-SSMIS Passive Microwave Data Set, NSIDC-0051, to mask ice extent
Overview
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.
Parameter(s):
ICE VELOCITYSEA ICE MOTIONSURFACE WINDS
Platform(s):
AQUA, BUOYS, DMSP 5D-2/F11, DMSP 5D-2/F13, DMSP 5D-2/F8, DMSP 5D-3/F17, NOAA-11, NOAA-12, NOAA-14, NOAA-9, Nimbus-7
Sensor(s):
AMSR-E, AVHRR, DRIFTING BUOYS, SMMR, SSM/I, SSMIS
Data Format(s):
PNG, Binary, ASCII, PSD
Temporal Coverage:
25 October 1978 to 28 February 2017
Temporal Resolution:
- 1 month
- 1 day
- 7 day
Spatial Resolution:
- 25 km
- 25 km
Spatial Coverage:
N:
90
S:
48.4
E:
180
W:
-180
N:
-53.2028
S:
-90
E:
180
W:
-180
Blue outlined yellow areas on the map below indicate the spatial coverage for this data set.
Data Access & Tools
This data set has been retired. There is a more recent version of these data.
Documentation
User Guide
General Resources
Sensor and Instrument Information
Help Articles
How to Articles
Harmony API Quickstart Guide: Customizing NASA NSIDC DAAC data in Earthdata Cloud
This article describes how to convert the u (horizontal) and v (vertical) components from the ice motion data set to East and North components on the Earth's surface. Instructions for both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres are described below:
This article describes the actions to perform in order work with NSIDC-0116 in ArcGIS. At the time of writing, this tutorial is relevant for ArcMap10.5 and earlier.
Data from the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC) can be accessed directly from our HTTPS file system. We provide basic command line Wget and curl instructions for HTTPS file system downloads below.