National Snow & Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center

nasa-nsidcdaac-0532

MEaSUREs Arctic Sea Ice Characterization Daily 25km EASE-Grid 2.0

This data set, part of the NASA Making Earth System Data Records for Use in Research Environments (MEaSUREs) program, provides a daily record of Arctic sea ice characteristics for the years 1979 through 2012 derived from passive microwave brightness temperatures. Characteristics include the location of sea ice cover, sea ice age, day of melt onset, and status of melt onset. Data are gridded in the 25 km Equal-Area Scalable Earth Grid (EASE-Grid) 2.0 and provided as netCDF files.

http://nsidc.org/data/NSIDC-0532

Identified by : NSIDC-0532

This dataset was released on June 20, 2014.

The time range for this dataset is January 01, 1979 to December 31, 2012.

The spatial range for this dataset is 0° to 90° latitude, and -180° to 180° longitude. map (center)

This dataset uses data from an instance of the advanced-microwave-scanning-radiometer-eos instrument on the aqua platform.
This dataset uses data from an instance of the special-sensor-microwave-imager instrument on the defense-meteorological-satellite-program-f-11 platform.
This dataset uses data from an instance of the special-sensor-microwave-imager instrument on the defense-meteorological-satellite-program-f-13 platform.
This dataset uses data from an instance of the special-sensor-microwave-imager instrument on the defense-meteorological-satellite-program-f-8 platform.
This dataset uses data from an instance of the special-sensor-microwave-imager-sounder instrument on the defense-meteorological-satellite-program-f-17 platform.
DOI : 10.5067/MEASURES/CRYOSPHERE/nsidc-0532.001
Also known as :

• dataset oai:nsidc/NSIDC-0532 (nsidc lexicon)