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AMSR2 Daily Polar Gridded Sea Ice Concentrations, Version 2
Data set id:
NSIDC-0803
DOI: 10.5067/W13AO54SS7CW
This is the most recent version of these data.
Version Summary
Version update for NetCDF data file format.
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Overview

The AMSR2 Daily Polar Gridded Sea Ice Concentrations data set provides sea ice concentrations for both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. The Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2 (AMSR2) sensor on the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Global Change Observation Mission – Water (GCOM-W) satellite provides the daily passive microwave brightness temperature [TB] data via AMSR2 Daily Polar Gridded Brightness Temperatures (NSIDC-0802) which is used as input for this product. As this product is intended to provide a follow-on data set for Near-Real-Time DMSP SSMIS Daily Polar Gridded Sea Ice Concentrations (NSIDC-0081) and Sea Ice Concentrations from Nimbus-7 SMMR and DMSP SSM/I-SSMIS Passive Microwave Data (NSIDC-0051), it uses TB fields gridded to match TBs gridded from SSMIS sensors on the same 25km polar stereo grids.
Parameter(s):
SEA ICE CONCENTRATION
Platform(s):
GCOM-W1
Sensor(s):
AMSR2
Data Format(s):
netCDF-4
Temporal Coverage:
  • 1 January 2023 to present
Temporal Resolution:
  • 1 day
Spatial Resolution:
  • 25 km
  • 25 km
Spatial Reference System(s):
  • NSIDC Sea Ice Polar Stereographic North
    EPSG:3411
  • NSIDC Sea Ice Polar Stereographic South
    EPSG:3412
Spatial Coverage:
  • N:
    -60
    S:
    -90
    E:
    180
    W:
    -180
  • N:
    90
    S:
    60
    E:
    180
    W:
    -180
Blue outlined yellow areas on the map below indicate the spatial coverage for this data set.

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