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This data set consists of soil moisture and soil temperature measurements taken during the SnowEx 2020 field campaign. Soil moisture probes were deployed at 10 stations within the Colorado Grand Mesa ...
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 ...
SMAP Level-4 (L4) surface and root zone soil moisture (L4_SM) data are provided in three products. The SMAP L4 Global 3-hourly 9 km EASE-Grid Surface and Root Zone Soil Moisture Geophysical Data ...
Future improvements include the transition of OpenAltimetry to ICESat-2 v007 data, which is expected to bring additional performance improvements through cloud optimization.
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 ...
May sea ice extent in the Arctic averaged 12.56 million square kilometers (4.85 million square miles), tying with 2004 for seventh lowest on the 47-year satellite record. Antarctic sea ice extent for ...
Home Data User Resources Data Announcements New data set release: International Ice Patrol Annual North Atlantic Iceberg Summaries and Reports, Version 1 ...
Access to SMAP Related 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 1 July 2025. The ...
This graph of Antarctic sea ice February extent anomalies shows a slope of -2.6 ± 3.3 percent per decade. Note that the individual monthly values over the years are scattered widely around the trend ...
Effective May 5, 2025, NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) will decommission its snow and ice data products from the Coasts, Oceans, and Geophysics Science Division (COGS). As ...
Arctic sea ice extent through most of April changed very little. Only at the end of the month did extent begin to decline. Because the month started with unusually low extent, however, the average ...
The AMSR-E/AMSR2 Unified L3 Daily 6.25 km Polar Gridded 89 GHz Brightness Temperatures, Version 1, the AMSR-E/AMSR2 Unified L3 Daily 12.5 km Brightness Temperatures, Sea Ice Concentration, Motion & ...