Sea Ice Concentration, NOAA/NSIDC NRT Climate Data Record V2, Southern Hemisphere, 25km, Near Real-Time, 2021-Present, Daily

This data set provides a passive microwave sea ice concentration climate data record (CDR) based on gridded brightness temperatures (TBs) from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) series of passive microwave radiometers: the Nimbus-7 Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer (SMMR), the Special Sensor Microwave Imager (SSM/I) and the Special Sensor Microwave Imager/Sounder (SSMIS). The sea ice concentration CDR is an estimate of sea ice concentration that is produced by combining concentration estimates from two algorithms developed at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC): the NASA Team algorithm and the Bootstrap algorithm. The individual algorithms are used to process and combine brightness temperature data at National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC). This product is designed to provide a consistent time series of sea ice concentrations (the fraction, or percentage, of ocean area covered by sea ice) from November 1978 to the present which spans the coverage of several passive microwave instruments. The data are gridded on the NSIDC polar stereographic grid with 25 x 25 km grid cells, and are available in Network Common Data Format (NetCDF) file format. Each file contains a variable with the CDR concentration values as well as variables that hold the NASA Team and Bootstrap processed concentrations for reference Variables containing standard deviation, quality flags, and projection information are also included. Data are available via FTP.
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acknowledgement=This project was supported in part by a grant from the NOAA Climate Data Record Program. Production of original NASA Team and Bootstrap algorithm estimates supported by the NASA Polar Distributed Active Archive Center. The sea ice concentration algorithms were developed by Donald J. Cavalieri, Josefino C. Comiso, Claire L. Parkinson, and others at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD.
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contributor_name=Walter N. Meier, Florence Fetterer, Ann Windnagel, J. Scott Stewart, Trey Stafford, Matt Fisher
contributor_role=principal investigator, author, author, software developer, software developer, software developer
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program=NOAA Climate Data Record Program
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proj_crs_code_description=The proj_crs_code attribute references a registered projection identifier (i.e. EPSG) when available. If the projection is not registered, non-standard then this attribute references a PolarWatch assigned internal identifier.
project=NOAA/NSIDC passive microwave sea ice concentration climate data record
references=Comiso, J. C., and F. Nishio. 2008. Trends in the Sea Ice Cover Using Enhanced and Compatible AMSR-E, SSM/I, and SMMR Data. Journal of Geophysical Research 113, C02S07, doi:10.1029/2007JC0043257. ; Comiso, J. C., D. Cavalieri, C. Parkinson, and P. Gloersen. 1997. Passive Microwave Algorithms for Sea Ice Concentrations: A Comparison of Two Techniques. Remote Sensing of the Environment 60(3):357-84. ; Comiso, J. C. 1984. Characteristics of Winter Sea Ice from Satellite Multispectral Microwave Observations. Journal of Geophysical Research 91(C1):975-94. ; Cavalieri, D. J., P. Gloersen, and W. J. Campbell. 1984. Determination of Sea Ice Parameters with the NIMBUS-7 SMMR. Journal of Geophysical Research 89(D4):5355-5369. ; Cavalieri, D. J., C. l. Parkinson, P. Gloersen, J. C. Comiso, and H. J. Zwally. 1999. Deriving Long-term Time Series of Sea Ice Cover from Satellite Passive-Microwave Multisensor Data Sets. Journal of Geophysical Research 104(7): 15,803-15,814. Comiso, J.C., R.A. Gersten, L.V. Stock, J. Turner, G.J. Perez, and K. Cho. 2017. Positive Trend in the Antarctic Sea Ice Cover and Associated Changes in Surface Temperature. J. Climate, 30, 2251–2267, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0408.1
sensor=SSMI/S > Special Sensor Microwave Imager/Sounder
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