ICESat-2 and CryoSat-2 L4 Monthly Arctic Snow Depth and Sea Ice Thickness, Version 1 is now available at the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC). This ...

The NSIDC DAAC User Services Office provides support for direct data download from Earthdata Cloud HTTPS and access to our AWS Simple Storage Service (S3) buckets. For more details on these access ...

The study draws from multiple data sources: the Automated Surface Observing System (ASOS); a 1996 study examining global ...

For further information, please see our Please note that gaps in the DMSP SSMIS data, which began in late spring of 2025 when the DoD deprioritized SSMIS data processing, may continue through the end ...

The following data set will continue to provide SSMIS data, along with AMSR2 data: ...

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The international Arctic Rain on Snow Study (AROSS), led by NSIDC, focuses on the effects of a growing problem in the Arctic. With increasing frequency, rain falls on snow, refreezes, and forms an icy ...

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 ...

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The following table includes the official ICESat/GLAS mission data currently available from NSIDC DAAC. These data products have been produced and validated by the ICESat/GLAS Science Team. NOTE: ...

ATL03 contains height above the WGS 84 ellipsoid, latitude, longitude, and time for each photon downlinked by the Advanced Topographic Laser Altimeter System (ATLAS) instrument on board ICESat-2. This ...