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The CETB data set is hosted and distributed through NASA’s NSIDC Snow and Ice Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC).
Version 7 of the ICESat-2 Quick Look products will be available at the National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC) on June 17th, 2025 only on NASA Earthdata Cloud.
Recent delivery from the US Navy of the SSMIS passive microwave data that several sea ice and brightness temperature products use has become more sporadic. The Defense Department has informed NSIDC ...
May sea ice extent in the Arctic averaged 12.56 million square kilometers (4.85 million square miles), tying with 2004 for seventh lowest on the 47-year satellite record. Antarctic sea ice extent for ...
NOAA@NSIDC is pleased to announce the release of the International Ice Patrol Annual North Atlantic Iceberg Summaries and Reports, Version 1 data set. This data set ...
Access to SMAP Related data sets in the legacy, on-premises archive at the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC) will be retired on 1 July 2025. The ...
Much like a conveyer belt, an atmospheric river transports moisture from the tropical and subtropical oceans and dumps it as rain or snow in cooler regions. These long, narrow bands of concentrated ...
Effective May 5, 2025, NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) will decommission its snow and ice data products from the Coasts, Oceans, and Geophysics Science Division (COGS). As ...
Arctic sea ice extent through most of April changed very little. Only at the end of the month did extent begin to decline. Because the month started with unusually low extent, however, the average ...
Arctic sea ice extent for March set a record low in the 47-year satellite data record. Extent was below average everywhere except the East Greenland Sea. Nearly all March monthly average extents since ...
Arctic sea ice extent appears to have reached its annual maximum on March 22, 2025. This is the lowest maximum in the 47-year satellite record, with previous low maximums occurring in 2017, 2018, 2016 ...