The Nunatsiavut Sea Ice Observer Program (NSIOP) collaborated with the Exchange for Local Observations and Knowledge of the Arctic (ELOKA), a program at NSDIC, to create an observational database of sea ice conditions off of northeastern Labrador, Canada. https://bit.ly/3RDotPA

The NASA NSIDC DAAC Data Access Tool can be used to search and filter data files for NSIDC DAAC data sets using a map-based interface. Once you've made your selection, there are multiple options for how to access the data you have selected. https://nsidc.org/data/data-access-tool

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Have you used the NASA NSIDC DAAC's Satellite Observations of Arctic Change (SOAC) tool? If so, share your experience with us at nsidc@nsidc.org, to help us develop future capabilities that better support data discovery and visualization requirements. https://nsidc.org/data/soac

NASA NSIDC DAAC has released a new data set: Ice, Cloud and Elevation Satellite (ICESat)/ICESat-2 Traverse: Monthly GPS Surface Elevation Data at Summit Station, Greenland. It contains terrain data along a defined survey transect west of Summit Station. https://bit.ly/4gTWZzs

One of NSIDC's three programs, NOAA@NSIDC, offers the Multisensor Analyzed Sea Ice Extent-Northern Hemisphere (MASIE-NH) data set. See Arctic sea ice now and download a map archive dating back to 2006. https://nsidc.org/data/masie

Have a question about accessing NASA NSIDC Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) data from the NASA Earthdata Cloud? We've got answers! https://nsidc.org/data/earthdata-cloud/help-articles

A lead is a long, linear area of open water that ranges from a few meters to over a kilometer in width, and tens of kilometers long; they develop as ice diverges, or pulls apart. See other crysopheric terms in the NSIDC glossary: https://bit.ly/4waA8Eu

The Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer (AMSR-E) data sets, available from NASA NSIDC DAAC, include brightness temperature, sea ice concentration & motion, precipitation, snow depth, snow water equivalent, soil moisture, and vegetation water content. https://nsidc.org/data/amsre

The NASA NSIDC DAAC has released a new version of the Advanced Topographic Laser Altimeter System (ATLAS)/ICESat-2 L3B Gridded Sea Ice Freeboard Quick Look data set, with rolling 30-day gridded estimates of sea ice freeboard. https://bit.ly/4bUbiR0

The peak melt season for Arctic sea ice occurs in summer, with ice cover reaching its lowest point in September. July is historically the warmest month in the Arctic with the highest volume of ice loss. See current conditions with NSIDC's Chartic graph: https://bit.ly/4rWyQKH

The continuous satellite record of polar sea ice started in October 1978, but the NASA NSIDC Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) Nimbus Rescue Project extended the non-continuous data record back to 1964. https://nsidc.org/data/nimbus

Learn how to download and visualize NASA NSIDC Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) products through NASA Worldview. https://bit.ly/4bLsckO

This glacier inventory from NOAA@NSIDC of West Greenland includes 5,297 glaciers from 1948 to 1985, taken from 1:250,000 maps, Landsat imagery, and aerial photographs. Data records include latitude and longitude, min and max elevation, and surface area. https://bit.ly/3TCTzHu

The Larsen B Ice Shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula lost the size of Rhode Island in sea ice in the 2002. After, glaciers feeding the shelf flowed faster. When stable, ice shelves act as brakes. When lifted, glaciers accelerate & land ice melts into the sea. https://bit.ly/4vrVITL

The NASA NSIDC Distributed Active Archive Center data collection from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) includes snow cover and sea ice data products derived from NASA’s MODIS instruments aboard both the Terra and Aqua satellites. https://nsidc.org/data/modis

Want to simplify downloading Earthdata cloud data? Then earthaccess can help. https://bit.ly/4fAWlWq

The NASA NSIDC Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) Land, Vegetation, and Ice Sensor (LVIS) collection has data on surface topography of oceans, land, glaciers, ice sheets, and sea ice; and vegetation and structural heights. https://bit.ly/44LYdpj

High Mountain Asia 5 Arc-Minute Hydrological Flow Direction for the Headwaters of the Amu Darya and Indus River Basins, available from the NASA NSIDC Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC), has data readings spanning four countries. https://doi.org/10.5067/SE4AJ5NZBWT5

Whether it rains or snows, the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for EOS (AMSR-E)/AMSR2 Unified L2B Global Swath Surface Precipitation at the NASA NSIDC Distributed Active Archive Center reports instantaneous surface precipitation rates and types. https://bit.ly/4vSVA0F

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Snow Today is a NASA-funded research project at NSIDC that examines where snow is present, where it has snowed recently, and how much water is in the snow, while also comparing between snow today, yesterday, last year, and over the last few decades. https://nsidc.org/snow-today

Remember Chasing Ice? The 2012 film about James Balog's photo project captured the subzero logistics of maintaining cameras in places like Greenland. Now over 1.5 million time-lapse images are at NSIDC, allowing free access to see global glacial retreat. https://bit.ly/4y2mx3g

NASA is decommissioning Moderate Resolution Spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensors and shifting to the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) sensor. The NSIDC analysis site Snow Today is converting to VIIRS data this year. https://bit.ly/3T7t9xk

The Nunatsiavut Sea Ice Observer Program (NSIOP) collaborated with the Exchange for Local Observations and Knowledge of the Arctic (ELOKA), a program at NSIDC, to create an observational database of sea ice conditions in coastal Labrador, Canada. https://bit.ly/4wf9rOz

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The Athabasca Glacier in Canada is one of the most accessible and visited glaciers in the world. As such, its retreat is well documented, rendering glacial change apparent. Explore this glacier and others with NSIDC's Glacier Photograph Collection: https://bit.ly/4e6aBpD

The Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP)/Sentinel-1 L2 Radiometer/Radar 30-Second Scene 3 km Equal-Area Scalable Earth (EASE-Grid) Soil Moisture provides coverage from 60°N to 60°S from March 31, 2015 on. Data are available from the @NASA NSIDC DAAC. https://bit.ly/4oodPs0

One of NSIDC's oldest data sets is from the NOAA@NSIDC program: The Global Lake and River Ice Phenology Database contains freeze and breakup dates for 865 lakes and rivers around the world. The earliest record is for Lake Constance in Germany, from 874. https://nsidc.org/data/g01377/versions/1

SnowEx data sets at the @NASA NSIDC Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) include a wealth of snow pit measurements—but not just those. SnowEx data also include brightness temperatures, radar reflectivity, lidar, radar cross-sections. https://nsidc.org/data/snowex