How to display and analyze the Sea Ice Concentrations from Nimbus-7 SMMR and DMSP SSM/I-SSMIS Passive Microwave Data

The Sea Ice Concentrations from Nimbus-7 SMMR and DMSP SSM/I-SSMIS Passive Microwave Data are distributed in gridded binary format. NSIDC provides IDL routines to ingest and read the data.

These tools can be found in this help article, Does NSIDC have tools to extract and geolocate polar stereographic data?.

If you are interested in importing the data to ArcGIS, you read the article How do I import sea ice data binary data files into ArcGIS? 

Last Updated February 2017