NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC)

Data are now available through June 2008 for the DMSP SSM/I Daily and Monthly Polar Gridded Sea Ice Concentrations data set.

NSIDC is pleased to announce that AMSR-E Soil Moisture Validation data have been updated to include all data sets for the Soil Moisture Experiment 2003 (SMEX03) campaign.

Two recent improvements in tiepoints used in the AMSR-E standard sea ice concentration algorithm may result in a relative change in sea ice area and extent for users working with multiple versions of the data.

Beginning 11 March 2009, NSIDC will no longer offer distribution on hard media (CD-ROM, DVD, DLT) for AMSR-E, MODIS, GLAS, or NISE data sets.

Release-29 data for the Laser 2B campaign (17 February 2004 to 21 March 2004) are now available for the following products: GLA01 to GLA05 and GLA07 to GLA11.

On 16 February 2009, NSIDC noticed significant problems with the Near Real-Time (NRT) sea ice product. Upon investigation, the problem was found to be due to an issue with the DMSP F15 SSM/I 22 GHz frequency brightness temperature fields used as inputs into the sea ice algorithm.

Production of MODIS Terra and Aqua snow and sea ice products have resumed, and both Terra and Aqua products are almost caught up.

Due to a hardware failure on 29 December 2008, production of MODIS Terra and Aqua snow and sea ice products have been suspended indefinitely.

ICESat/GLAS Release-29 data for the Laser 1A (20 February 2003 to 21 March 2003) and 1B (21 March 2003 to 29 March 2003) campaigns are now available for the following products: GLA01 to GLA05 and GLA07 to GLA09.

Beginning on 01 December 2008, AMSR-E Level-2 and Level-3 Land products and Level-3 Snow products are Stage 1 validated.

NSIDC has released new ICESat/GLAS data. Release-29 data for the Laser 3J time period (17 February 2008 to 21 March 2008) are available for the following products: GLA01 - GLA09 and GLA12 - GLA15. Release-29 incorporates significant and extensive changes to the atmosphere processing, additions and corrections to the waveform and elevation processing, and the incorporation of new tide models. Learn more about ICESat/GLAS Data collection and release history.

NSIDC would like to inform you that due to intermittent satellite maneuvers throughout the lifetime of Terra and Aqua, some geolocation information in MODIS data is incorrect. Data with erroneous geolocation information are being reprocessed to eliminate data that do not meet specifications. Reprocessing of all affected data is expected to be complete in Spring of 2009.

NSIDC is pleased to announce that the DMSP SSM/I Daily Polar Gridded Brightness Temperatures data set has been updated through June 2008. Data set documentation and FTP data access are available from the data set documentation.

Reprocessing is complete for all AMSR-E/Aqua Level-2B products. Data from 19 June 2002 (the start of the AMSR-E mission) to present are now Version 2, the validated or transitional version of the algorithm.

Reprocessing is complete for all AMSR-E/Aqua Level-3 products. Data from 19 June 2002 (the start of the AMSR-E mission) to present are now Version 2, the validated or transitional version of the algorithm.

NSIDC is pleased to announce a recent update to the Bootstrap Sea Ice Concentrations from Nimbus-7 SMMR and DMSP SSM/I data set.

NSIDC is pleased to announce that sea ice concentrations from AMSR-E/Aqua Daily L3 12.5 km Brightness Temperatures, Sea Ice Concentration, and Snow Depth Polar Grids (AE_SI12) were created as .kml files for use in Earth browsers, such as Google Earth. These files include the latest 30-day, 60-day, and 90-day animations of the daily sea ice concentrations and sea ice extent in the Arctic.

Reprocessing is underway for all AMSR-E Level 3 sea ice products with data from 19 June 2002, the start of the AMSR-E mission, and will continue through 5 July 2008.

Release-28 data for the Laser 2C time period (18 May 2004 to 21 June 2004) are available for the following products: GLA01 to GLA09 and GLA12 to GLA15. This is the first public release of Laser 2C data.

Due to an error in an ancillary data file, the following Version 2 AMSR-E Level 3 snow products were removed from NSIDC's archives: AMSR-E/Aqua Daily L3 Global Snow Water Equivalent EASE-Grids (AE_DySno); AMSR-E/Aqua 5-Day L3 Global Snow Water Equivalent EASE-Grids (AE_5DySno); AMSR-E/Aqua Monthly L3 Global Snow Water Equivalent EASE-Grids (AE_MoSno).