Sea Ice Trends and Climatologies from SMMR and SSM/I-SSMIS, Version 3

Description

NSIDC provides this data set to aid investigations of variability and trends in sea ice cover. Ice cover in these data are indicated by sea ice concentration: the percentage of the ocean surface covered by ice. The ice-covered area indicates how much ice is present; it is the total surface area of a pixel multiplied by the ice concentration in that pixel. Ice persistence is the percentage of months over the data set time period that ice existed at a location. The ice extent indicates whether ice is present; here, ice is considered to exist in a pixel if the sea ice concentration exceeds 15 percent. This data set provides users with data about total ice-covered areas, sea ice extent, ice persistence, and monthly climatologies of sea ice concentrations.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 Direct download via HTTPS protocol. https://daacdata.apps.nsidc.org/pub/DATASETS/nsidc0192_seaice_trends_climo_v3/
21 Includes a user's guide, supplemental documents like ATBDs and academic papers, How Tos, FAQs, etc. https://doi.org/10.5067/IJ0T7HFHB9Y6
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FIJ0T7HFHB9Y6

Tags

  • cryosphere
  • earth-science
  • sea-ice

Topics

  • Climate

Categories