Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)
Near-Real-Time DMSP SSMIS Daily Polar Gridded Sea Ice Concentrations, Version 2
datasetobservational / measurementRetiredIndustry: Aerospace
As of 18 June 2026, this data set is retired and no longer available for download.
- Category
- Data & Digital Tools
- Affiliations
- CIRES
Description
Near-real-time maps of sea ice concentration for the Northern and Southern Hemispheres from DMSP SSMIS on a 25 km grid, 1 January 2024 to 14 January 2026. Retired as of 18 June 2026 and no longer available for download.
Official page
https://nsidc.org/data/nsidc-0081/versions/2
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Contact
- General contact
- NSIDC User Services / Earthdata Forum (generic)
Details
- Keywords
- large-scale sea ice monitoring, microwave remote sensing, polar night coverage, climate model validation, netcdf maps, dmsp satellites
- Location
- Boulder, Colorado
- Temporal cadence
- daily
- Associated entity
- NSIDC (NASA NSIDC DAAC); NSIDC is part of CIRES
- Identifier
- NSIDC-0081