{"@type": "dcat:Dataset", "accessLevel": "public", "bureauCode": ["026:00"], "contactPoint": {"@type": "vcard:Contact", "fn": "NSIDC Services", "hasEmail": "mailto:nsidc@nsidc.org"}, "description": "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.", "distribution": [{"@type": "dcat:Distribution", "description": "Data Access link for ITSD project", "downloadURL": "https://nsidc.org/data/data-access-tool/NSIDC-0532/versions/1/", "format": "HTML", "mediaType": "text/html", "title": "Download this dataset"}, {"@type": "dcat:Distribution", "description": "Includes a user's guide, supplemental documents like ATBDs and academic papers, How Tos, FAQs, etc.", "downloadURL": "https://doi.org/10.5067/MEASURES/CRYOSPHERE/nsidc-0532.001", "format": "HTML", "mediaType": "text/html", "title": "View documentation related to this dataset"}, {"@type": "dcat:Distribution", "description": "NASA's newest search and order tool for subsetting, reprojecting, and reformatting data.", "downloadURL": "https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/granules?p=C1000001300-NSIDC_ECS&q=NSIDC-0532&m=-21.99608182881265%21-70.6875%211%211%210%210%2C2&tl=1576703999%214%21%21", "format": "HTML", "mediaType": "text/html", "title": "Download this dataset through Earthdata Search"}, {"@type": "dcat:Distribution", "description": "Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI.", "downloadURL": "https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FMEASURES%2FCRYOSPHERE%2Fnsidc-0532.001", "format": "HTML", "mediaType": "text/html", "title": "Google Scholar search results"}], "identifier": "C1000001300-NSIDC_ECS", "issued": "1979-01-02", "keyword": ["cryosphere", "earth-science", "sea-ice"], "landingPage": "https://doi.org/10.5067/MEASURES/CRYOSPHERE/nsidc-0532.001", "language": ["en-US"], "modified": "2025-07-17", "programCode": ["026:001"], "publisher": {"@type": "org:Organization", "name": "NASA NSIDC DAAC"}, "spatial": "-180.0 0.0 180.0 90.0", "temporal": "1979-01-01T00:00:00Z/2012-12-31T23:59:59.999Z", "theme": ["geospatial"], "title": "MEaSUREs Arctic Sea Ice Characterization Daily 25km EASE-Grid 2.0 V001"}