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Arctic and Southern Ocean Sea Ice Concentrations, Version 1

Metadata Updated: August 30, 2025

This data set provides monthly sea ice concentration for the Arctic from 1901 to 1995 and for the Southern Oceans from 1973 to 1990 on a standard 1-degree grid (cylindrical projection) to provide a relatively uniform set of sea ice extent for all longitudes. The data are in ASCII format and are available via FTP.

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 June 18, 2025
Metadata Updated Date August 30, 2025

Metadata Source

Harvested from NASA Data.json

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date June 18, 2025
Metadata Updated Date August 30, 2025
Publisher NSIDC;NOAA
Maintainer
Identifier 10.7265/N5057CVT
Data Last Modified 2025-08-27
Category Earth Science
Public Access Level public
Bureau Code 026:00
Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
Harvest Object Id 635432e7-c207-4836-a019-a1cb225d5e42
Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
Homepage URL https://noaadata.apps.nsidc.org/NOAA/G00799/
Old Spatial "CARTESIAN",{"WestBoundingCoordinate":-180.0,"NorthBoundingCoordinate":-50.0,"EastBoundingCoordinate":180.0,"SouthBoundingCoordinate":-90.0},{"WestBoundingCoordinate":-180.0,"NorthBoundingCoordinate":90.0,"EastBoundingCoordinate":180.0,"SouthBoundingCoordinate":40.0}
Program Code 026:000
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash b3d38ee3ea65aa342f269ad28a694f3dbc0d7d606ebe77da853e7179a5959a29
Source Schema Version 1.1
Spatial
Temporal 1953-01-01/1953-01-01

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