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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.

Product Summary

Platforms
Aqua ,
DMSP 5D-2/F11 ,
DMSP 5D-2/F13 ,
DMSP 5D-2/F8 ,
DMSP 5D-3/F17 ,
Nimbus-7 ,
Terra
Instruments
AMSR-E ,
SSM/I ,
SSMIS ,
SMMR
Spatial Extent

N: 90 S: 0 E: 180 W: -180

Spatial Resolution
25 Kilometers x 25 Kilometers
Geographic Region
ARCTIC
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
CARTESIAN
Temporal Extent
1979-01-01 to 2012-12-31
Concept ID
C3291000765-NSIDC_CPRD
Data State
COMPLETE
Number of Files/Granules
10822
Processing Level
3
Science Keywords
Ice Extent ,
Sea Ice Age ,
Snow Melt

Citation

Citation is critically important for dataset documentation and discovery. This dataset is openly shared, without restriction, in accordance with the EOSDIS Data Use and Citation Guidance.

Copy Citation

Anderson, M., Bliss, A., & Tschudi, M. (2014). MEaSUREs Arctic Sea Ice Characterization Daily 25km EASE-Grid 2.0, Version 1 [Data set]. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/MEASURES/CRYOSPHERE/NSIDC-0532.001 Date Accessed: 2025-12-14

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