NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC)
Enabling researchers and data users to better understand how changes in the cryosphere impact our planet.
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Since beginning to migrate data to the NASA Earthdata Cloud, the NSIDC DAAC has worked to develop resources and tools to ensure an easy transition for data users. The newest of those tools to come to the NSIDC DAAC is NASA Earthdata Harmony data transformation services, or Harmony for short, which the NSIDC DAAC has adopted for ICESat-2 data. Harmony is a framework that serves many NASA Earthdata data sets across NASA DAACs. These data transformation services include spatial, temporal, and variable subsetting, reformatting the data, combining multiple files together in one file, reprojection, and more.
Several representatives from NSIDC will be attending the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Annual Meeting 2024, either virtually or in person in Washington DC, to share their expertise in data management and research in the cryospheric sciences and
Starting in 2015, data from the NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) satellite were collected using GPS signals. They had been stored, but not processed, because to do so required expertise in
Using NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) data archived at the National Snow and Ice Data Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC), a research team has brought drought forecasting to near real-time.
A newly published study has mapped glacial debris across the Greater Caucasus, the mountainous region between the Black and Caspian Seas. The study found an increasing trend in glacial debris between 2014 and 2020. The authors relied on GLIMS data at NSIDC in their research.
Software engineer and metadata architect Julia Collins discusses how she came to NSIDC, and how she came to appreciate the crucial value of data about data.