MODIS/Aqua Sea Ice Extent 5-Min L2 Swath 1km NRT

Description

MODIS/Aqua Sea Ice Extent 5-Min L2 Swath 1km Near Real Time (NRT), short name MYD29, contains the following fields: sea ice by reflectance, sea ice by reflectance pixel quality assurance (QA), ice surface temperature (IST), IST pixel QA, sea ice by IST, combined sea ice, latitudes, and longitudes in HDF-EOS format, along with corresponding metadata. Latitude and longitude geolocation fields are at 5 km resolution, while all other fields are at 1 km resolution. The sea ice algorithm uses a Normalized Difference Snow Index (NDSI) modified for sea ice to distinguish sea ice from open ocean, based on reflective and thermal characteristics.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 NASA LANCE Near Real Time data set descriptions and access links. https://earthdata.nasa.gov/earth-observation-data/near-real-time/download-nrt-data/modis-nrt
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FMODIS%2FMYD29.NRT.061
21 Direct access to the download site and directory hosting the MYD29 6.1NRT data set. https://nrt3.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/archive/allData/61/MYD29/
21 Access Collection 6 data set from the MODAPS LANCE-MODIS page(download server). http://lance3.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/data_products/

Tags

  • national-geospatial-data-asset
  • oceans
  • cryosphere
  • ngda
  • earth-science
  • sea-ice

Topics

  • Climate

Categories

  • Arctic
  • Arctic Ocean, Sea Ice and Coasts
  • Melting Glaciers, Snow and Ice