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    • NOAA/NSIDC Climate Data Record of Passive Microwave Sea Ice Concentration, Version 4

    Metadata Updated: February 21, 2024

    This data set provides a Climate Data Record (CDR) of sea ice concentration from passive microwave data. The CDR algorithm output is a rule-based combination of ice concentration estimates from two well-established algorithms: the NASA Team (NT) algorithm (Cavalieri et al. 1984) and NASA Bootstrap (BT) algorithm (Comiso 1986). The CDR is a consistent, daily and monthly time series of sea ice concentrations from 25 October 1978 through the most recent processing for both the north and south polar regions. All data are on a 25 km x 25 km grid.

    Note: A near-real-time version of this data set also exists to fill the gap between the time that this data set is updated through to the present. The data set is called the Near-Real-Time NOAA/NSIDC Climate Data Record of Passive Microwave Sea Ice Concentration (https://nsidc.org/data/g10016).

    Access & Use Information

    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date December 1, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date February 21, 2024

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NASA Data.json

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date December 1, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date February 21, 2024
    Publisher NSIDC
    Maintainer
    Identifier C2076192120-NSIDCV0
    Data First Published 1978-10-25
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2023-09-30
    Category geospatial
    Category Tag 16E15F51 D96E 4051 9124 75665Abdc6Ff "Arctic","Arctic Ocean, Sea Ice and Coasts","Melting Glaciers, Snow and Ice"
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
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    Metadata Catalog ID https://data.nasa.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Citation NOAA/NSIDC Climate Data Record of Passive Microwave Sea Ice Concentration, Version 4. Version 4. Archived by National Aeronautics and Space Administration, U.S. Government, National Snow and Ice Data Center. https://doi.org/10.7265/efmz-2t65.
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    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.7265/efmz-2t65
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -180.0 -89.84 180.0 -39.36
    Program Code 026:001
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash a4b8a1bbfff374686c3269f55077d22ac07f53798a64a55128f4e379c3551035
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 1978-10-25T00:00:00Z/2023-09-30T23:59:59.999Z

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