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.

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Name Format Description Link
5 https://daacdata.apps.nsidc.org%2Fpub%2FDATASETS%2Fnsidc0192_seaice_trends_climo_v3%2F
5 https://doi.org%2F10.5067%2FIJ0T7HFHB9Y6
5 https://daacdata.apps.nsidc.org/pub/DATASETS/nsidc0192_seaice_trends_climo_v3/
21 https://doi.org/10.5067/IJ0T7HFHB9Y6

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  • earth-science-sea-ice-cryosphere-sea-ice-concentration
  • earth-science-sea-ice-cryosphere-ice-extent

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