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The left map illustrates the cumulative melt days on the Greenland Ice Sheet for the 2025 melt season through June 30. The ...
These data sets provide daily files of brightness temperature data and sea ice concentrations for both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. These data products serve as a replacement for the ...
The SSMIS data are used as input for this NSIDC-produced data set, which will therefore stop processing after 31 July 2025.
NOAA@NSIDC is pleased to announce that the Sea Ice Index, Version 3 data set, accessible through the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), has been updated from near-real-time data to final data ...
This data set provides raw lidar data from two regions of Alaska, USA collected as part of the NASA SnowEx 2023 field campaign. The study sites include a boreal forest environment in the Fairbanks ...
Arctic sea ice extent through most of April changed very little. Only at the end of the month did extent begin to decline. Because the month started with unusually low extent, however, the average ...
This data set (ATL06) provides geolocated, land-ice surface heights (above the WGS 84 ellipsoid, ITRF2014 reference frame), plus ancillary parameters that can be used to interpret and assess the ...
The Circum-Arctic permafrost and ground ice map is available via ftp in ESRI Shapefile format and Equal-Area Scalable Earth Grid (EASE-Grid) format. See the Format section for an explanation of the ...
This data set (ATL03) contains height above the WGS 84 ellipsoid (ITRF2014 reference frame), latitude, longitude, and time for all photons downlinked by the Advanced Topographic Laser Altimeter System ...
The Level-4 (L4) carbon product (SPL4CMDL) provides global gridded daily estimates of net ecosystem carbon (CO2) exchange derived using a satellite data based terrestrial carbon flux model informed by ...
SMAP Level-4 (L4) surface and root zone soil moisture (L4_SM) data are provided in three products. The SMAP L4 Global 3-hourly 9 km EASE-Grid Surface and Root Zone Soil Moisture Geophysical Data ...
As a condition of using these data, you must cite the use of this data set. Such a practice gives credit to data set producers and advances principles of transparency and reproducibility. Other ...