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    • MEaSUREs Arctic Sea Ice Characterization Daily 25km EASE-Grid 2.0 V001

    Metadata Updated: August 23, 2025

    This data set, part of the NASA Making Earth System Data Records for Use in Research Environments (MEaSUREs) program, provides a daily record of Arctic sea ice characteristics for the years 1979 through 2012 derived from passive microwave brightness temperatures. Characteristics include the location of sea ice cover, sea ice age, day of melt onset, and status of melt onset. Data are gridded in the 25 km Equal-Area Scalable Earth Grid (EASE-Grid) 2.0 and provided as netCDF files.

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    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 November 12, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date August 23, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NASA Data.json

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date August 23, 2025
    Publisher NASA NSIDC DAAC
    Maintainer
    Identifier C1000001300-NSIDC_ECS
    Data First Published 1979-01-02
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2025-07-17
    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
    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 0fd91b43-0f51-4955-8b9d-d2c15f33e860
    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.5067/MEASURES/CRYOSPHERE/nsidc-0532.001
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -180.0 0.0 180.0 90.0
    Program Code 026:001
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash f238d462f7175af476f7b643929a14b4f7741e79a84897f28b4eac7e25572d7a
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z/2012-12-31T23:59:59.999Z

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