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Sea Ice Index Entry ID: G02135 |
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Abstract:
The Sea Ice Index provides a quick look at sea ice changes in spatial and historical context, and gives a consistent, up-to-date source of sea ice extent and sea ice concentration values and images. The NSIDC Near-Real-Time DMSP SSM/I Daily Polar Gridded Sea Ice Concentrations and the Sea Ice Concentrations from Nimbus-7 SSMR and DMSP SSM/I Passive Microwave Data data sets are used to generate the monthly records of sea ice extent and sea ice concentration for the Arctic and Antarctica from satellite passive microwave data. Data files tabulate monthly mean extent and area, in millions of square kilometers, by year for a given month. Plots of monthly sea ice extent anomalies with trend lines and significance intervals are available. Monthly images show sea ice extent (with an outline of the median extent for that month for comparison), sea ice concentration, trends in sea ice concentration, and anomalies in sea ice concentration. Anomalies and median extent are calculated using a reference period of 1979 through 2000. Daily images of sea ice extent and concentration, along with a time series plot of extent for the most recent four months, can be viewed and downloaded on the data product site but are not archived. Some products are available as GIS compatible shapefiles and KML files. The Browse Image Spreadsheet Tool (BIST) can be used for animated images and for displaying archived images of extent and trends side by side, to make it easy to compare images from different years and months. Data are stored in ASCII text, Portable Network Graphics (PNG), Keyhole Markup Language (KML), and Geospatial Vector Data format and are available from November 1978 to present via FTP or the Sea Ice Index Web site.
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Description: Sea Ice Data at NSIDC |
Geographic Coverage
| N: -39.23 | S: -90.0 | E: 180.0 | W: -180.0 |
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| N: 90.0 | S: 30.98 | E: 180.0 | W: -180.0 |
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Data Set Citation
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Dataset Originator/Creator:
Florence Fetterer
Dataset Title: Sea Ice Index Dataset Release Date: 2002-12-05 Dataset Release Place: Boulder, CO Dataset Publisher: National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) Data Presentation Form: Images Online Resource: http://nsidc.org/data/G02135.html |
Temporal Coverage
| Start Date: 1979-01-01 |
Location Keywords
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CONTINENT
> ANTARCTICA
GEOGRAPHIC REGION > ARCTIC GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR |
Science Keywords
| CRYOSPHERE >SEA ICE >ICE EXTENT [Definition] |
| CRYOSPHERE >SEA ICE >ICE GROWTH/MELT [Definition] |
| CRYOSPHERE >SEA ICE >REFLECTANCE [Definition] |
| CRYOSPHERE >SEA ICE >SEA ICE CONCENTRATION [Definition] |
| OCEANS >SEA ICE >ICE EXTENT [Definition] |
| OCEANS >SEA ICE >ICE GROWTH/MELT [Definition] |
| OCEANS >SEA ICE >REFLECTANCE [Definition] |
| OCEANS >SEA ICE >SEA ICE CONCENTRATION [Definition] |
ISO Topic Category
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CLIMATOLOGY/METEOROLOGY/ATMOSPHERE
OCEANS |
Platform
| SATELLITES [Information] |
Instrument
| SMMR >Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer [Information] |
| SSMI >Special Sensor Microwave/Imager [Information] |
Keywords
| NOAA |
| Sea Ice |
| Sea Ice Anomalies |
| Sea Ice Conditions |
| Sea Ice Trends |
Data Set Progress
| IN WORK |
Originating Center
| NSIDC_NOAA |
Data Center
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National Snow and Ice Data Center
[Information]
Data Center URL: http://nsidc.org Dataset ID: G02135
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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration at the National Snow and Ice Data Center
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Data Center URL: http://nsidc.org/noaa/ Dataset ID: G02135
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Distribution
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Electronic
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Personnel
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FLORENCE
FETTERER Role: INVESTIGATOR Phone: +1 (303) 492-6199 Fax: +1 (303) 492-2468 Email: fetterer at nsidc.org Contact Address: National Snow and Ice Data Center CIRES, 449 UCB University of Colorado City: Boulder Province or State: CO Postal Code: 80309-0449 Country: USA |
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KENNETH
W.
KNOWLES Role: INVESTIGATOR Phone: 303-492-6199 Fax: 303-492-2468 Email: nsidc at nsidc.org Contact Address: National Snow and Ice Data Center CIRES, 449 UCB University of Colorado City: Boulder Province or State: CO Postal Code: 80309-0449 Country: USA |
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WALT
MEIER Role: INVESTIGATOR Email: walt at nsidc.org Contact Address: National Snow and Ice Data Center 449 UCB University of Colorado City: Boulder Province or State: CO Postal Code: 80309 Country: USA |
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MATTHEW
H.
SAVOIE Role: INVESTIGATOR Phone: 303-492-5692 Email: savoie at nsidc.org Contact Address: National Snow and Ice Data Center University of Colorado CIRES, 449 UCB City: Boulder Province or State: CO Postal Code: 80309-0449 Country: USA |
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NSIDC
USER SERVICES Role: TECHNICAL CONTACT Phone: +1 (303) 492-6199 Fax: +1 (303) 492-2468 Email: nsidc at nsidc.org Contact Address: National Snow and Ice Data Center CIRES, 449 UCB University of Colorado City: Boulder Province or State: CO Postal Code: 80309-0449 Country: USA |
Publications/References
Agnew, T. A., and S. Howell. 2002a. The use of operational i ce charts for evaluating passive microwave ice concentration data. Internal Report of the Meteorological Service of Canada. 34 pp. Agnew, T. A., and S. Howell. 2002b. Comparison of digitized Canadian ice charts and passive microwave sea-ice concentrations. Procedures of the International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, July 24-28. Toronto: Canada. Cavalieri, D.J., P. Gloersen and W. J. Campbell. 1984. Determination of sea ice parameters with the NIMBUS-7 SMMR. Journal of Geophysical Research 89 (D4): 5355-5369. Cavalieri, D.J., K.M. St. Germain and C.T. Swift. 1995. Reduction of weather effects in the calculation of sea ice concentration with the DMSP SSM/I. Journal of Glaciology 41: 455-464. Cavalieri, D., P. Gloerson, and J. Zwally. 1990. DMSP SSM/I daily polar gridded sea ice concentrations. Edited by J. Maslanik and J. Stroeve. Boulder, CO: National Snow and Ice Data Center. Digital me
dia. Cavalieri, D., C. Parkinson, P. Gloerson, and H.J. Zwally. 1997, updated 2005. Sea ice concentrations from Nimbus-7 SMMR and DMSP SSM/I passive microwave data, June to September 2001. Boulder, CO: National Snow and Ice Data Center. Digital media and CD-ROM. Cavalieri, D., P. Gloerson, and J. Zwally. 2002, updated daily. Near Real-Time DMSP SSM/I Daily Polar Gridded Sea Ice Concentrations. Edited by J. Maslanik and J. Stroeve. Boulder, CO: National Snow and Ice Data Center. Digital media. Comiso, J. C., and R. Kwok. 1996. Surface and radiative characteristics of the summer arctic sea ice cover from multi-sensor satellite observations. Journal of Geophysical Research 101 (C12): 28, 397-28, 416. Comiso, J. C., and K. Steffen. 2001. Studies of Antarctic sea ice concentrations from satellite data and their applications. Journal of Geophysical Research 106 (C12): 31, 361-31, 386. Emery, W. J., C. Fowler, and J. Maslanik. 1994. Arctic sea ice concentration from Special Senso
r Microwave Imager and Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer satel
lite data. Journal of Geophysical Research 99: 18,329-18,342. Eppler, D.T., L.D. Farmer, A.W. Lohanick, M.A. Anderson, D. Cavalieri, J. Comiso, P. Gloersen, C. Garrity, T.C. Grenfell, M. Hallikainen, J.A. Maslanik, C. Mätzler, R.A. Melloh, I. Rubinstein, and C.T. Swift. 1992. Passive microwave signatures of sea ice. In Microwave remote sensing of sea ice. Edited by F.D. Carsey. Washington, D.C.: American Geophysical Union. 47-71. Fetterer, F., and N. Untersteiner. 1998. Observations of melt ponds on arctic sea ice. Journal of Geophysical Research 103 (C11): 24,821-24,835. Hollinger, J.P., J.L. Peirce, and G.A. Poe. 1990. SSM/I Instrument Evaluation. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 28 (5): 781-790. Kwok, R. 2002. Sea ice concentration estimates from satellite passive microwave radiometry and openings from SAR ice motion. Geophysical Research Letters 29 (9): 10.1029/202GL014787. Markus, T., and S. T. Dokken. 2002. Evaluation of late summer passive microw
ave arctic sea ice retrievals. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 40 (2): 348-356. Meier, W. N., M .L. V. Woert, and C. Bertoia. 2001. Evaluation of operational SSM/I algorithms. Annals of Glaciology 33: 102-108. Meier, W. N. 2005. Comparison of passive microwave retrievals with AVHRR imagery in arctic peripheral seas. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 43 (6): 1324-1337. Parkinson, C.L., D.J. Cavalieri, P. Gloersen, H.J. Zwally, and J.C. Comiso. 1999. Arctic sea ice extents, areas, and trends, 1978-1996. Journal of Geophysical Research 104 (C9): 20,837-20,856. Partington, K., T. Flynn, D. Lamb, C. Bertoia, and K. Dedrick. 2003. Late twentieth century Northern Hemisphere sea-ice record from U.S. National Ice Center ice charts. J. Geophys. Res. 108(C11): 3343. doi:10.1029/2002JC001623. Steffen, K., and A. Schweiger. 1991. NASA team algorithm for sea ice concentration retrieval from Defense Meteorological Satellite Program Special Sensor Mi
crowave Imager: comparison with Landsat satellite imagery. Journal of
Geophysical Research 96 (C12): 21,971-21,987. Steffen, K., J. Key, D. Cavalieri, J. Comiso, P. Gloersen, K.S. Germain, and I. Rubinstein. 1992. The estimation of geophysical parameters using passive microwave algorithms in microwave remote sensing of sea ice. Edited by F.D. Carsey. Washington, D.C.: American Geophysical Union. 201-231.
dia. Cavalieri, D., C. Parkinson, P. Gloerson, and H.J. Zwally. 1997, updated 2005. Sea ice concentrations from Nimbus-7 SMMR and DMSP SSM/I passive microwave data, June to September 2001. Boulder, CO: National Snow and Ice Data Center. Digital media and CD-ROM. Cavalieri, D., P. Gloerson, and J. Zwally. 2002, updated daily. Near Real-Time DMSP SSM/I Daily Polar Gridded Sea Ice Concentrations. Edited by J. Maslanik and J. Stroeve. Boulder, CO: National Snow and Ice Data Center. Digital media. Comiso, J. C., and R. Kwok. 1996. Surface and radiative characteristics of the summer arctic sea ice cover from multi-sensor satellite observations. Journal of Geophysical Research 101 (C12): 28, 397-28, 416. Comiso, J. C., and K. Steffen. 2001. Studies of Antarctic sea ice concentrations from satellite data and their applications. Journal of Geophysical Research 106 (C12): 31, 361-31, 386. Emery, W. J., C. Fowler, and J. Maslanik. 1994. Arctic sea ice concentration from Special Senso
r Microwave Imager and Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer satel
lite data. Journal of Geophysical Research 99: 18,329-18,342. Eppler, D.T., L.D. Farmer, A.W. Lohanick, M.A. Anderson, D. Cavalieri, J. Comiso, P. Gloersen, C. Garrity, T.C. Grenfell, M. Hallikainen, J.A. Maslanik, C. Mätzler, R.A. Melloh, I. Rubinstein, and C.T. Swift. 1992. Passive microwave signatures of sea ice. In Microwave remote sensing of sea ice. Edited by F.D. Carsey. Washington, D.C.: American Geophysical Union. 47-71. Fetterer, F., and N. Untersteiner. 1998. Observations of melt ponds on arctic sea ice. Journal of Geophysical Research 103 (C11): 24,821-24,835. Hollinger, J.P., J.L. Peirce, and G.A. Poe. 1990. SSM/I Instrument Evaluation. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 28 (5): 781-790. Kwok, R. 2002. Sea ice concentration estimates from satellite passive microwave radiometry and openings from SAR ice motion. Geophysical Research Letters 29 (9): 10.1029/202GL014787. Markus, T., and S. T. Dokken. 2002. Evaluation of late summer passive microw
ave arctic sea ice retrievals. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 40 (2): 348-356. Meier, W. N., M .L. V. Woert, and C. Bertoia. 2001. Evaluation of operational SSM/I algorithms. Annals of Glaciology 33: 102-108. Meier, W. N. 2005. Comparison of passive microwave retrievals with AVHRR imagery in arctic peripheral seas. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 43 (6): 1324-1337. Parkinson, C.L., D.J. Cavalieri, P. Gloersen, H.J. Zwally, and J.C. Comiso. 1999. Arctic sea ice extents, areas, and trends, 1978-1996. Journal of Geophysical Research 104 (C9): 20,837-20,856. Partington, K., T. Flynn, D. Lamb, C. Bertoia, and K. Dedrick. 2003. Late twentieth century Northern Hemisphere sea-ice record from U.S. National Ice Center ice charts. J. Geophys. Res. 108(C11): 3343. doi:10.1029/2002JC001623. Steffen, K., and A. Schweiger. 1991. NASA team algorithm for sea ice concentration retrieval from Defense Meteorological Satellite Program Special Sensor Mi
crowave Imager: comparison with Landsat satellite imagery. Journal of
Geophysical Research 96 (C12): 21,971-21,987. Steffen, K., J. Key, D. Cavalieri, J. Comiso, P. Gloersen, K.S. Germain, and I. Rubinstein. 1992. The estimation of geophysical parameters using passive microwave algorithms in microwave remote sensing of sea ice. Edited by F.D. Carsey. Washington, D.C.: American Geophysical Union. 201-231.
Creation and Review Dates
DIF Creation Date:
2002-12-04
Last DIF Revision Date:
2010-12-20
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