News & Analyses - National Snow and Ice Data Center
Catch up on reports of Arctic sea ice conditions and view near-real-time data from both polar regions. Read seasonal analysis of snow conditions in the western United States and explore a variety of near-real-time data on snow. Discover how NSIDC research and data at NSIDC are being used to make a ...
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Advancing knowledge of Earth’s frozen regions since 1976 NSIDC's diverse group of experts have provided research and data management on the cryosphere for nearly 50 years.
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Open access data to inform researchers, policymakers, and othersNSIDC’s data management programs focus on preserving and providing access to cryospheric data and related geophysical data.
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From data management and software development to scientific research, get the the basic rundown on what NSIDC does, and why our work is so important to advancing understanding of Earth’s frozen regions. Scientists, software experts, creatives, and many others work together at NSIDC. Learn more ...
News & Stories - National Snow and Ice Data Center
Since 2007, the Arctic sea ice minimum has dropped below 5 million square kilometers (1.93 million square miles) every year, except in 2009, 2013, and 2014, when extent barely crossed the 5 million square kilometer mark.
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Quick facts, basic science, and information about snow, ice, and why the cryosphere matters The cryosphere includes all of the snow and ice-covered regions across the planet.
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The data set landing page contains several sections, which can be navigated to via a convenient sidebar menu: Overview: A brief summary of the data set and what it contains, including parameters, resolution, and other metadata. Data Access & Tools: Contains options for accessing the data, as well as tools to work with the data. Documentation: Links to …
Help Center | National Snow and Ice Data Center
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 possible grid resolutions, which are defined in …
Can I access NSIDC data using an API or FTP?
NSIDC DAAC Data Access and Service API. Data from the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC) can be accessed directly from our HTTPS file system or through this API which offers you the ability to order data using specific temporal and spatial filters, as well as subset, reformat, and reproject select data sets.