MEaSUREs Arctic Sea Ice Characterization Daily 25km EASE-Grid 2.0, Version 1
Data set id:
NSIDC-0532
DOI: 10.5067/MEASURES/CRYOSPHERE/nsidc-0532.001
This is the most recent version of these data.
Version Summary
Version Summary
Initial release
Overview
This data set, part of the NASA Making Earth System Data Records for Use in Research Environments (MEaSUREs) program, provides a daily record of Arctic sea ice characteristics for the years 1979 through 2012 derived from passive microwave brightness temperatures. Characteristics include the location of sea ice cover, sea ice age, day of melt onset, and status of melt onset. Data are gridded in the 25 km Equal-Area Scalable Earth Grid (EASE-Grid) 2.0 and provided as netCDF files.
Parameter(s):
ICE EXTENT
SEA ICE AGE
SNOW MELT
Platform(s):
Aqua
DMSP 5D-2/F11
DMSP 5D-2/F13
DMSP 5D-2/F8
DMSP 5D-3/F17
Nimbus-7
Terra
Sensor(s):
AMSR-E
SMMR
SSM/I
SSMIS
Data Format(s):
netCDF-4
Temporal Coverage:
- 1 January 1979 to 31 December 2012
Temporal Resolution:
- 1 day
Spatial Resolution:
- 25 km
- 25 km
Spatial Reference System(s):
- WGS 84 / NSIDC EASE-Grid 2.0 NorthEPSG:6931
Spatial Coverage:
- N:90S:0E:180W:-180
Blue outlined yellow areas on the map below indicate the spatial coverage for this data set.
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