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Description

This Level-3 gridded product (AE_SI12) includes brightness temperatures at 18.7 through 89.0 GHz, sea ice concentration, and snow depth over sea ice.

Version Description

<p>Changes to the Version 3 algorithm for these data include:</p>
<ul>
<li>Uses Version 3 of the AMSR-E/Aqua L2A Global Swath Spatially-Resampled Brightness Temperatures data as input</li>
<li>Improved Antarctic land mask: Includes an updated ice shelf definition created by the National Ice Center Science Department in June 2011, and an updated shoreline developed from ENVISAT and RADARSAT imagery from October 2009 to April 2010. Also, this updated version no longer uses the Level-2A land flag and only uses the updated land mask for surface type classification in the southern hemisphere sea ice concentration algorithm.</li>
<li>Inclusion of ISO lineage metadata</li>
</ul>

Product Summary

Platforms
Aqua
Instruments
AMSR-E
Spatial Extent

N: 90 S: 30.98 E: 180 W: -180

,

N: -39.23 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180

Spatial Resolution
12.5 Kilometers x 12.5 Kilometers
Geographic Region
POLAR
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
CARTESIAN
Temporal Extent
2002-06-01 to 2011-10-04
Concept ID
C3228765563-NSIDC_CPRD
Data State
COMPLETE
Number of Files/Granules
3385
Processing Level
3
Published
Science Keywords
Brightness Temperature ,
Sea Ice Concentration ,
Sea Ice Concentration ,
Snow Depth ,
Snow Depth

Citation

Citation is critically important for dataset documentation and discovery. This dataset is openly shared, without restriction, in accordance with the EOSDIS Data Use and Citation Guidance.

Copy Citation

Cavalieri, D., Markus, T., & Comiso, J. (2014). AMSR-E/Aqua Daily L3 12.5 km Brightness Temperature, Sea Ice Concentration, & Snow Depth Polar Grids, Version 3 [Data set]. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/AMSR-E/AE_SI12.003 Date Accessed: 2026-01-08

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