Arctic sea ice extent in May declined at a slightly faster pace compared to average. In Antarctica, the Bellingshausen Sea ...

Snow albedo, also known as snow brightness, started near average in early May and then rapidly decreased until storms in the ...

For further information, please see our The data sets using SSMIS for input: AMSR2 prototype sea ice concentration has been incorporated into the latest version of the Near-Real-Time NOAA/NSIDC ...

Recent delivery from the US Navy of the SSMIS passive microwave data that several sea ice and brightness temperature products use has become more sporadic. The Defense Department has informed NSIDC ...

The Operation IceBridge Portal and IceFlow NSIDC Data Tutorial notebooks will be retired by June 30, 2025, as part of NSIDC DAAC's transition to NASA Earthdata Cloud. These tools rely on underlying ...

NOAA@NSIDC is pleased to announce the release of the International Ice Patrol Annual North Atlantic Iceberg Summaries and Reports, Version 1 data set. This data set contains yearly summaries and ...

Access to ICESat-2 data sets in the legacy, on-premises archive at the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC) will be retired on July 15, 2025. The NASA ...

The SnowEx23 Corner Reflector Location and Orientation, Version 1 data set is now available at the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC). This data set ...

Much like a conveyer belt, an atmospheric river transports moisture from the tropical and subtropical oceans and dumps it as rain or snow in cooler regions. These long, narrow bands of concentrated ...

The satellite record on sea ice dates back to late October 1978. The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) tracks and reports sea ice extent—area of ocean with at least 15 percent sea ice ...

The Sea Ice Concentrations from Nimbus-7 SMMR and DMSP SSM/I-SSMIS Passive Microwave Data, Version 2 data set, available from the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive ...

As a condition of using these data, you must cite the use of this data set. Such a practice gives credit to data set producers and advances principles of transparency and reproducibility. Other ...