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NASA IceBridge POS/AV L1B Corrected Position and Attitude Data for the 2016 Greenland campaign are now available from the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center… Read more »
Data Announcements
Update for NASA IceBridge MCoRDS L2 Ice Thickness Data
NASA IceBridge MCoRDS L2 Ice Thickness data for 2015 Greenland are now available from the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC). This data… Read more »
All MODIS Snow Cover Data Sets Now Available in Version 6
The final four MODIS snow cover data sets are now available in Version 6 at the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC): MODIS/Terra… Read more »
Update for NASA IceBridge DMS L0 Raw Imagery Data
NASA IceBridge DMS L0 Raw Imagery for 2016 Greenland are now available from the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC). This data set… Read more »
Gridded Monthly Arctic Sea Ice Back to 1850, for Analysis or Browsing
Until now, climate diagnostic applications, reanalyses, and atmospheric modeling studies that needed a lower boundary condition did not have an arctic-wide gridded ice concentration data set to use based on… Read more »
NOAA@NSIDC Releases Sea Ice Index Version 2
NOAA@NSIDC is pleased to announce the release of Sea Ice Index Version 2. Improvements include using the most recently available version of the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) input sea… Read more »
Update for NASA IceBridge ATM L4 Surface Elevation Rate of Change Data
The NASA IceBridge ATM L4 Surface Elevation Rate of Change data set now includes measurements based on 2015 data. This data set contains surface elevation rate of change measurements derived… Read more »
NOAA@NSIDC to Release Sea Ice Index Version 2 Next Week
An improved version of the Sea Ice Index is coming. On Wednesday, 6 July 2016, Sea Ice Index Version 2 will be released. It will look and act the same… Read more »
Update for NASA IceBridge LVIS L1B Data
NASA IceBridge LVIS L1B Geolocated Return Energy Waveforms data for 2015 Antarctica are now available from the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC)…. Read more »
Reprocessing Complete for SMAP Data
The SMAP Science Data System (SDS) has completed reprocessing of the NASA SMAP Level-1B, -1C, -2, and -3 data products to Validated Version 3. Additionally, SMAP Level-4 products have been… Read more »
