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    • U.S. National Ice Center Arctic and Antarctic Sea Ice Concentration and Climatologies in Gridded Format, Version 1

    Metadata Updated: September 18, 2025

    Notice: Due to funding limitations, this data set was recently changed to a “Basic” Level of Service. Learn more about what this means for users and how you can share your story here: Level of Service Update for Data Products.Weekly sea ice concentration charts from the U.S. National Ice Center (USNIC) along with total ice concentration, multiyear ice concentration, first-year ice concentration, thin ice concentration, and fast ice extent. In addition, there are also period-of-record, 5-year and 10-year climatological averages.

    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 September 18, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NASA Data.json

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    Additional Metadata

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    Metadata Created Date June 18, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date September 18, 2025
    Publisher NSIDC
    Maintainer
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    Data Last Modified 2025-09-11
    Category Earth Science
    Public Access Level public
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    Program Code 026:000
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    Source Hash 7cf92c63a3e3ec3a1d713b098751d6947d09d1bd43c4fb99e35571bfb3e8baed
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    Temporal 2003-01-06/2003-01-06

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