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This data set is generated from brightness temperature data and is designed to provide a consistent time series of sea ice concentrations spanning the coverage of several passive microwave instruments.The data are provided in the polar stereographic projection at a grid cell size of 25 x 25 km. Data coverage is from 26 October 1978 to 31 December 2025.
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DiGirolamo, Nicolo, Parkinson, Claire, Cavalieri, Donald, Gloersen, Per, & Zwally, H. (2022). Sea Ice Concentrations from Nimbus-7 SMMR and DMSP SSM/I-SSMIS Passive Microwave Data, Version 2 [Data set]. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/MPYG15WAA4WX
Date Accessed: 2026-11-07
@misc{DiGirolamo_Parkinson_Cavalieri_Gloersen_Zwally_2022,
title={Sea Ice Concentrations from Nimbus-7 SMMR and DMSP SSM/I-SSMIS Passive Microwave Data, Version 2},
url={http://nsidc.org/data/NSIDC-0051/versions/2},
DOI={10.5067/MPYG15WAA4WX},
publisher={NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center},
author={DiGirolamo, Nicolo and Parkinson, Claire and Cavalieri, Donald and Gloersen, Per and Zwally, H.},
year={2022},
}
DiGirolamo, Nicolo, Claire Parkinson, Donald Cavalieri, Per Gloersen, and H. Zwally. “Sea Ice Concentrations from Nimbus-7 SMMR and DMSP SSM/I-SSMIS Passive Microwave Data, Version 2.” NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center, 2022. doi:10.5067/MPYG15WAA4WX.
Date Accessed: 2026-11-07
DiGirolamo, Nicolo, et al. “Sea Ice Concentrations from Nimbus-7 SMMR and DMSP SSM/I-SSMIS Passive Microwave Data, Version 2.” NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center, 2022, https://doi.org/10.5067/MPYG15WAA4WX.
Date Accessed: 2026-11-07
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