DMSP SSM/I Daily and Monthly Polar Gridded Sea Ice Concentrations

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DMSP SSM/I Daily and Monthly Polar Gridded Sea Ice Concentrations

Data Contributors

COMISO, JOSEPHINO 'JOEY' C.
CAVALIERI, DONALD
GLOERSEN, PER
ZWALLY, H. JAY

Parameters

ICE EXTENT
SEA ICE AGE
SEA ICE CONCENTRATION > MULTIYEAR SEA ICE CONCENTRATION, TOTAL SEA ICE CONCENTRATION, MULTIYEAR SEA ICE CONCENTRATION, TOTAL SEA ICE CONCENTRATION

Instruments

SSM/I : SPECIAL SENSOR MICROWAVE/IMAGER

Documentation Access Data

DMSP SSM/I Daily and Monthly Polar Gridded Sea Ice Concentrations in polar stereographic projection currently include Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) -F8, -F11, and -F13 daily and monthly sea ice concentrations. Using the Bootstrap algorithm, data gridded at a resolution of 25 x 25 km, begin 25 June 1987. Processing is ongoing. The Special Sensor Microwave Imager (SSM/I) derived ice concentrations are daily total and monthly averaged ice fractions for both hemispheres. The data are provided in Hierarchical Data Format (HDF), with accompanying Graphical Interchange Format (GIF) browse files and are available via FTP.

Note: Users interested in sea ice concentration using the NASA Team algorithm are advised to use Sea Ice Concentrations from Nimbus-7 SMMR and DMSP SSM/I Passive Microwave Data.

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Data Citation

The following example shows how to cite the use of this data set in a publication. List the principal investigators, year of data set release, data set title, dates of data used (for example, 01 January to 15 March 2004), publisher (NSIDC), and media format.

Comiso, J. 1990, updated 2005. DMSP SSM/I daily and monthly polar gridded sea ice concentrations, [list dates used]. Edited by J. Maslanik and J. Stroeve. Boulder, Colorado USA: National Snow and Ice Data Center. Digital media.