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Description

This product provides 6.25 km sea ice drift grids for the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.

Version Description

See https://nsidc.org/data/amsre/version-history

Product Summary

Platforms
Aqua
Instruments
AMSR-E
Spatial Extent

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

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

Spatial Resolution
6.25 Kilometers x 6.25 Kilometers
Location
ANTARCTICA ,
ARCTIC ,
POLAR
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
CARTESIAN
Temporal Extent
2011-05-30 to 2011-10-03
Concept ID
C3241556193-NSIDC_CPRD
Data State
COMPLETE
Number of Files/Granules
123
Processing Level
3
Published
Science Keywords
Microwave Imagery ,
Sea Ice Motion

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., Ivanoff, A., Liu, A., & Zhao, Y. (2011). AMSR-E/Aqua Daily L3 6.25 km Sea Ice Drift Polar Grids, Version 1 [Data set]. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/AMSR-E/AE_SID.001 Date Accessed: 2026-01-16

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