National Snow & Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center

nasa-nsidcdaac-0622

Polar Stereographic Valid Ice Masks Derived from National Ice Center Monthly Sea Ice Climatologies

These valid ice masks provide a way to remove spurious ice caused by residual weather effects and land spillover in passive microwave data. They are derived from the National Ice Center Arctic Sea Ice Charts and Climatologies data set and show where ice could possibly exist based on where it has existed in the past. There are 12 valid ice masks, one for each month, in netCDF-CF 1.6 compliant files with all associated metadata. The data are on a 304 x 448 grid and are available via FTP.

http://nsidc.org/data/NSIDC-0622

Identified by : NSIDC-0622

This dataset was released on May 14, 2015.

The time range for this dataset is January 01, 1972 to December 31, 2007.

The spatial range for this dataset is 39.5° to 90° latitude, and -180° to 180° longitude. map (center)

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.
DOI : 10.5067/M4PUJAQRI2DS
Also known as :

• dataset oai:nsidc/NSIDC-0622 (nsidc lexicon)