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BYU Scatterometer Climate Record Pathfinder (SCP) Data Sets

Entry ID: NSIDC-0261

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Summary

Abstract: Brigham Young University (BYU) Center for Remote Sensing holds various data from the Scatterometer Climate Record Pathfinder (SCP) program. The SCP is a NASA-sponsored project to develop scatterometer-based data time series to support climate studies of the Earth's cryosphere and biosphere. Originally developed to measure winds over the ocean from space, scatterometer data includes polar ice and tropical vegetation. Because the scatterometer radar signal can penetrate the surface, a scatterometer can observe subsurface/subcanopy climate-related features. These data sets consist of an Antarctic iceberg database, current Antarctic iceberg locations, sea ice extent products, QuickSCAT sea ice motion, and QuickSCAT global sigma-0 browse images.

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Data Set Citation

Dataset Originator/Creator: David Long

Dataset Title: BYU Scatterometer Climate Record Pathfinder (SCP) Data Sets

Dataset Release Date: 2004-12-30

Dataset Release Place: Provo, UT

Dataset Publisher: Brigham Youg University Center for Remote Sensing

Online Resource: http://nsidc.org/data/nsidc-0261.html

Temporal Coverage

Start Date: 1978-07-01

Location Keywords

GEOGRAPHIC REGION > GLOBAL

GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR

Science Keywords

CRYOSPHERE > SEA ICE > ICE EXTENT

CRYOSPHERE > SEA ICE > ICEBERGS

ISO Topic Category

CLIMATOLOGY/METEOROLOGY/ATMOSPHERE

Platform

QUIKSCAT > QUIKSCAT

SATELLITES

Instrument

SCATTEROMETERS

Project

SCP > NASA Scatterometer Climate Record Pathfinder

Data Center

National Snow and Ice Data Center

Data Center URL: http://nsidc.org
Dataset ID: NSIDC-0261

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

Personnel

DAVID G. LONG

Role: INVESTIGATOR

Phone: 801-422-4383

Fax: 801-422-0201

Email: long at ee.byu.edu

Contact Address:

BYU Center for Remote Sensing

Brigham Young University

459 Clyde Building

City: Provo

Province or State: UT

Postal Code: 84602

Country: USA

Creation and Review Dates

DIF Creation Date: 2004-12-17

Last DIF Revision Date: 2010-03-08

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