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 ...

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

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

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

NASA's Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) is a key core capability in NASA’s Earth Science Data Systems Program for archiving and distributing Earth science data from multiple ...

All NSIDC DAAC data, including SnowEx, ASO, and Nimbus data sets, in NASA Earthdata Cloud can be accessed via HTTPS through ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...