National Snow & Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center

nasa-nsidcdaac-0009

Nimbus-5 ESMR Polar Gridded Sea Ice Concentrations

Daily and monthly averaged sea ice concentrations from the Nimbus-5 Electrically Scanning Microwave Radiometer (ESMR) are available for the Arctic and Antarctic from 12 December 1972 through 31 December 1976 at 25 km gridded resolution. Raw data were reprocessed to include ocean masks that reduce weather effects and coastal contamination, and to include a 15 percent ice threshold. Reprocessed data are in Hierarchical Data Format (HDF) and are available via FTP.

http://nsidc.org/data/NSIDC-0009

Identified by : NSIDC-0009

This dataset was released on January 01, 2004.

The time range for this dataset is December 12, 1972 to December 31, 1976.

The spatial range for this dataset is -90° to -39.23° latitude, and -180° to 180° longitude. map (center)

DOI : 10.5067/W2PKTWMTY0TP
Also known as :

• dataset oai:nsidc/NSIDC-0009 (nsidc lexicon)