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Sea Ice Trends and Climatologies from SMMR and SSM/I-SSMIS, Version 3

Published by NASA NSIDC DAAC | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Catalog Last Checked: May 26, 2026 at 05:41 PM | Dataset Last Updated: May 18, 2026
NSIDC provides this data set to aid investigations of variability and trends in sea ice cover. Ice cover in these data are indicated by sea ice concentration: the percentage of the ocean surface covered by ice. The ice-covered area indicates how much ice is present; it is the total surface area of a pixel multiplied by the ice concentration in that pixel. Ice persistence is the percentage of months over the data set time period that ice existed at a location. The ice extent indicates whether ice is present; here, ice is considered to exist in a pixel if the sea ice concentration exceeds 15 percent. This data set provides users with data about total ice-covered areas, sea ice extent, ice persistence, and monthly climatologies of sea ice concentrations.

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