http://nsidc.org/collections/NSIDC-0079 | Climate Data Guide

Dataset Name

Bootstrap Sea Ice Concentrations from Nimbus-7 SMMR and DMSP SSM/I-SSMIS

Metadata Identifier

http://nsidc.org/collections/NSIDC-0079

Start Date

1978-10-26

End Date

2014-12-31

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Sea Ice Concentration data from NASA Goddard and NSIDC based on Bootstrap algorithm

Years of record

1978-10 to 2014-12

Bootstrap sea ice refers to a well-known algorithm used to estimate sea ice concentration from passive microwave brightness temperatures. It can be applied to data from many satellite instruments, such as SMMR, SSMI, and AMSR-E. This page discusses the algorithm itself and the long-term data set ("NSIDC 0079, version 2") produced by J. Comiso and distributed by NSIDC.…
Main variables and Earth System components
Cryosphere Sea Ice Concentration Ocean
Formats

netCDF, binary

Timestep

Daily, Monthly

Domain

Antarctic, Arctic, NH - Northern Hemisphere, SH - Southern Hemisphere

Collections

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Experts contributing reviews

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