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NASA IceBridge DMS L0 Raw Imagery data for Greenland 2010 are now available from NSIDC. See the NASA IceBridge DMS L0 Raw Imagery Web page at https://nsidc.org/data/iodms0 for more information.
The NSIDC Antarctic Glaciological Data Center (AGDC) has released the data set, Radar Studies of Internal Stratigraphy and Bed Topography along the US ITASE-II Traverse (NSIDC-0475).
NASA IceBridge UAF Lidar Scanner L1B Geolocated Surface Elevation Triplets data for Alaska 2010 are now available from NSIDC. See the IceBridge UAF Lidar Scanner L1B Geolocated Surface Elevation Triplets Web page at https://nsidc.org/data/ilaks1b for more information.
NASA IceBridge Atmospheric Chemistry L1B Data for Antarctica 2009 are now available via NSIDC as brokered data from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Earth Observing Laboratory (EOL). See the IceBridge Atmospheric Chemistry L1B Data Web page at https://nsidc.org/data/ichem1b for more information.
NASA IceBridge preliminary Ku-Band Radar L1B Geolocated Radar Echo Strength Profiles data for Greenland 2010 are now available from NSIDC. The Greenland 2010 data currently contain preliminary Ku-Band radar data for the IceBridge CryoSat-2 underflight on 20 April 2010. The preliminary data will be replaced with the fully processed data in the near future. See the IceBridge Ku-Band Radar L1B Geolocated Radar Echo Strength Profiles Web page at https://nsidc.org/data/irkub1b for more information.
NASA IceBridge UAF Lidar Scanner L1B Geolocated Surface Elevation Triplets data for Alaska 2009 are now available from NSIDC. See the IceBridge UAF Lidar Scanner L1B Geolocated Surface Elevation Triplets Web page at https://nsidc.org/data/ilaks1b for more information.
NASA IceBridge UAF Lidar Profiler L1B Geolocated Surface Elevation Triplets data for Alaska 2009 are now available from NSIDC. See the IceBridge UAF Lidar Profiler L1B Geolocated Surface Elevation Triplets Web page at https://nsidc.org/data/ilakp1b for more information.
NOAA@NSIDC project manager Lisa Ballagh gave an invited talk at the Geological Society of America (GSA) meeting in Denver.
The NSIDC Sea Ice Index was featured in Google Earth's Blog: The Amazing Things About Google Earth.
The AGDC data set, ICESat-Derived Grounding Zone for Antarctic Ice Shelves, has been updated because of an interpolation problem. If you have questions, please contact NSIDC User Services at nsidc@nsidc.org or +1 303.492.6199.
Data users can now subscribe to receive new AMSR-E and MODIS data via an RSS data feed as soon as they are ingested at NSIDC.
At the IICWG Science Day on October 26, NOAA@NSIDC lead Florence Fetterer spoke on NOAA@NSIDC's Arctic Sea Ice Forecasting Activities, Research, and Priorities.
Updated Level-2 AMSR-E data products were released by the AMSR-E Science Investigator-led Processing System (SIPS) on 20 October 2010. NSIDC is also pleased to announce that AMSR-E Level-2 products are now available only 20 hours from the time of observation.
The International Ice Chart Working Group (IICWG) concluded a successful 11th meeting the week of October 18 in Washington DC. The group discussed ice modelling and forecasting.
NSIDC has released MEaSUREs Global Record of Daily Landscape Freeze/Thaw Status, Version 01 (NSIDC-0477). This data set provides a global record of daily freeze/thaw status from 1988 to 2007. The data set is based on data from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) Special Sensor Microwave/Imager (SSM/I).
NSIDC Antarctic Glaciological Data Center (AGDC) has released Borehole Optical Stratigraphy Modeling, Antarctica (NSIDC-0468).
NSIDC has released MEaSUREs Greenland Ice Sheet Velocity Map from InSAR Data (NSIDC-0478). This data set is part of the NASA Making Earth Science Data Records for Use in Research Environments (MEaSUREs) Project.
NASA IceBridge NSERC L1B Geolocated Meteorologic and Surface Temperature data for Greenland 2010 are now available from NSIDC. See the NSERC L1B Geolocated Meteorologic and Surface Temperature Web page at https://nsidc.org/data/iamet1b for more information.
Due to a power outage at the Goddard Space Flight Facility on 22 September 2010, there were satellite data losses for the MODIS/Terra and MODIS/Aqua sea ice and snow products.
Preliminary Level-2 Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer - Earth Observing System (AMSR-E) data will be discontinued on 18 October 2010. Also beginning on this date, the latency of standard Level-2 AMSR-E science products will be reduced from five days to 20 hours from the time of observation.