http://nsidc.org/collections/NSIDC-0051 | Climate Data Guide

Dataset Name

Sea Ice Concentrations from Nimbus-7 SMMR and DMSP SSM/I-SSMIS Passive Microwave Data

Metadata Identifier

http://nsidc.org/collections/NSIDC-0051

Start Date

1978-10-01

End Date

2014-12-31

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

Years of record

1978-10 to 2014-12

NASA Team sea ice refers to a well-known algorithm used to estimate sea ice concentration from passive microwave brightness temperatures. This page discusses the algorithm itself and the long-term data set ("NSIDC 0051") produced by scientists at NASA Goddard and distributed by NSIDC. The NASA Team data are very widely used and are a key input into other data sets…
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

Diagnostic Data Sets, NCAR-DOE-CESM, seaicediagnostics
Experts contributing reviews

N/A

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