Because these satellites have polar orbits, the information they gather helps to track changes occurring to the cryosphere, ...

Arctic sea ice extent as of August 18 was 5.20 million square kilometers (2.01 million square miles) (Figure 1a). The first ...

The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) has launched an upgraded and streamlined Sea Ice Today website. The new site replaces the Arctic Sea Ice News & Analysis (ASINA) website but continues the ...

There are many ways to access and work with NSIDC data to accommodate a wide diversity of users. Use the filter menu to explore and narrow down your options. Note that the list defaults to show our ...

MEaSUREs ITS_LIVE Antarctic Annual 240 m Ice Sheet Extent Masks, 1997-2021, Version 1 is now available at the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC).

The MEaSUREs Greenland Ice Velocity: Selected Glacier Site Single-Pair Velocity Maps from Optical Images, Version 1 data set, available at the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active ...

The Equal-Area Scalable Earth (EASE) Grids are intended to be versatile formats for global-scale gridded data, including remotely sensed data. Data can be expressed as a digital array with one of many ...

The monthly Sea Ice Index provides a quick look at Arctic-wide changes in sea ice. It is a source for consistently processed ice extent and concentration images and data values since 1979. Monthly ...

Note: To select a different data set, close this window (or tab) and navigate to the data set landing page you want. This ITS_LIVE data set, part of the Making Earth System Data Records for Use in ...

This form should be used for community-produced data submission requests that are not currently assigned to a NSIDC DAAC mission or project. If you are submitting a publication or update request for ...

Note: To select a different data set, close this window (or tab) and navigate to the data set landing page you want. This data set contains the raw results of 1 GHz ground-penetrating radar surveys ...