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Multisensor Analyzed Sea Ice Extent - Northern Hemisphere (MASIE-NH)

Entry ID: G02186

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Summary

Abstract: The Multisensor Analyzed Sea Ice Extent Northern Hemisphere (MASIE-NH) products provide measurements of daily sea ice extent and sea ice edge boundary for the Northern Hemisphere and 16 Arctic regions in a polar stereographic projection. Products include an ASCII text file of sea ice extent values in square km over the entire Northern Hemisphere with 16 separate Arctic regions identified, time ...

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Link: VIEW RELATED INFORMATION

Description: Sea Ice Index

Geographic Coverage

(Click for Interactive Map)

Spatial coordinates

N: 90.0

S: 0.0

E: 180.0

W: -180.0

Data Set Citation

Dataset Originator/Creator: National Ice Center (NIC) and NSIDC

Dataset Title: Multisensor Analyzed Sea Ice Extent - Northern Hemisphere (MASIE-NH)

Dataset Release Date: 2010-12-14

Dataset Release Place: Boulder, Colorado USA

Dataset Publisher: National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC)

Online Resource: http://nsidc.org/data/g02186.html

Location Keywords

OCEAN > ARCTIC OCEAN

OCEAN > ARCTIC OCEAN > BEAUFORT SEA

Data Resolution

Latitude Resolution: 4 km
Longitude Resolution: 4 km

Science Keywords

CRYOSPHERE > SEA ICE > ICE EDGES

CRYOSPHERE > SEA ICE > ICE EXTENT

ISO Topic Category

CLIMATOLOGY/METEOROLOGY/ATMOSPHERE

Platform

DMSP > Defense Meteorological Satellite Program

ERS-2 > European Remote Sensing Satellite-2

Instrument

ASAR > Advanced Synthetic Aperature Radar

SAR > Synthetic Aperture Radar

Quality A quality assessment of this product has not been made.

Ancillary Keywords

Arctic Sea Ice

ICE EDGE

Data Set Progress

IN WORK

Originating Center

NSIDC_NOAA

Data Center

National Snow and Ice Data Center

Data Center URL: http://nsidc.org

Data Center Personnel
Name: NSIDC USER SERVICES 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

Distribution

Distribution Media: FTP

Distribution Size: 128 KB - 37 MB per file

Distribution Format: GeoTIFF

Distribution Media: FTP

Distribution Size: 16 KB - 768 KB per file

Distribution Format: PNG

Distribution Media: FTP

Distribution Size: 16 KB per file

Distribution Format: CSV

Distribution Media: FTP

Distribution Size: 32 KB per zipped file

Distribution Format: ESRI shapefiles

Distribution Media: FTP

Distribution Size: 516 MB

Distribution Format: NetCDF

Distribution Media: FTP

Distribution Size: 57 KB

Distribution Format: Microsoft Excel

Distribution Media: FTP

Distribution Size: 98 KB - 130 KB

Distribution Format: KML

Personnel

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

Publications/References

Arctic Climatology Project. 2000. Environmental Working Group joint U.S.-Russian sea ice atlas. Edited by F. Tanis and V. Smolyanitsky. Ann Arbor, MI: Environmental Research Institute of Michigan in association with the National Snow and Ice Data Center. CD-ROM.

Fetterer, F., compiler. 2006. A selection of documentation related to National Ice Center sea ice charts in digital format. NSIDC ... Special Report 13. Boulder, CO, USA: National Snow and Ice Data Center.

Fetterer, F., K. Knowles, W. Meier, and M. Savoie. 2002, updated 2009. Sea Ice Index, Boulder, Colorado USA: National Snow and Ice Data Center. Digital media.

Helfrich, S.R., D. McNamara, B.H. Ramsay, T. Baldwin, and T. Kasheta. 2007. Enhancements to, and forthcoming developments to the Interactive Multisensor Snow and Ice Mapping System (IMS), Hydrological Processes 21: 12, 1576-1586.

McKenna, P., and W. N. Meier. 2002. SSM/I sea ice algorithm inter-comparison: Operational case studies from the National Ice Center, IGARSS Proceedings, INT_A32_04, Toronto, 24-28 June 2002.

Meier, W. N, M. L. van Woert, and C. Bertoia. 2001. Evaluation of operational SSM/I ice concentration algorithms, Ann. Glaciology, 33, 102-108.

Meier, Walter, 2005. Comparison of Passive Microwave Ice Concentration Algorithm Retrievals With AVHRR Imagery in Arctic Peripheral Seas. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol 40, No. 6, pp 1324-1334.

Meier, W. N., F. Fetterer, C. Fowler, P. Clemente-ColÃ³n, T. Street, Operational sea ice charts: An integrated data product suitable for observing long-term changes in Arctic sea ice? Poster presented at the AGU Fall Meeting, 2006, and available on the NSIDC Posters and Presentations page.

Meier, W. N., T. Maksym and M.L. Van Woert, Evaluation of Arctic operational passive microwave products: a case study in the Barents Sea during October 2001. Ice in the Environment: Proceedings of the 16th IAHR International Symposium on Ice, Dunedin, New Zealand, 2nd-6th December 2002, International Association of Hydraulic Engineering and Research

National Ice Center. 2006. National Ice Center Arctic sea ice charts and climatologies in gridded format. Edited and compiled by F. Fetterer and C. Fowler. Boulder, Colorado USA: National Snow and Ice Data Center. Digital media.

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.

Rayner, N. A., D. E. Parker, E. B. Horton, C. K. Folland, L.V. Alexander, D. P. Rowell, E. C. Kent, and A. Kaplan. 2003. Global analysis of sea surface temperature, sea ice, and night marine air temperature since the late nineteenth century. Journal of Geophysical Research. 108 (D14). doi:10.1029/2002JD002670.

Willis, Z. M, Foster, C. Bertoia, and K. Dedrick. 2000. National Ice Center/Naval Ice Center support to submarine operations Undersea Warfare: Issue 8, pp. 18-21.

Creation and Review Dates

DIF Creation Date: 2010-11-17

Last DIF Revision Date: 2012-05-13

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