Alternate title

Near-Real-Time SSM/I-SSMIS EASE-Grid Daily Global Ice Concentration and Snow Extent (NISE) Version 1

Date

Identifier

Snow and ice mass, thickness and extent | Coverage (by area) of ice on the water body by image analysis | National Snow & Ice Data Center USA | Near-Real-Time SSM/I-SSMIS EASE-Grid Daily Global Ice Concentration and Snow Extent (NISE) Version 1

Other citation details

Near-Real-Time SSM/I-SSMIS EASE-Grid Daily Global Ice Concentration and Snow Extent (NISE) Version 1

Purpose

Estimate the sea ice extent

Status

onGoing On going

Maintenance and update frequency

Continual

Used by challenges

• BlackSea - CH04 - Climate

Environmental matrix

• Marine water

Production mode

• Real-time

Visibility

• Use of open search engines, searching by name either the data provider or the characteristics

Policy visibility

• There is detailed information provided to understand data policy

Readyness

• Format not proprietary and content clearly specified (e.g. autodescriptive like ODV, NetCDF CF) or at least with appropriate document describing the content

Parameter Discovery Vocabulary (P02)

• Snow and ice mass, thickness and extent

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

• Oceanographic geographical features

Processing level of characteristics

• High level analyzed

Data delivery mechanisms

• Online discovery and downloading services

Parameter Usage Vocabulary (P01)

• Coverage (by area) of ice on the water body by image analysis

Parameter Usage Vocabulary (other)

• Near-Real-Time SSM/I-SSMIS EASE-Grid Daily Global Ice Concentration and Snow Extent (NISE) Version 1

Agreed Parameter Groups (P03)

• Cryosphere

Service extent

• The datasets are referenced in a public national catalogue, in an international catalogue service

Access constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

Unrestricted

Use limitation

Open and Free. No charge

Spatial representation type

vector Vector

Distance

25  km

Metadata language

Français

Character set

utf8 UTF8

Topic category

• Oceans

Environment description

The data will be used to estimate the trend in the Black sea present ice cover extent.

Begin date

1995-05-04

Number of dimensions

0

Dimension name

Time

Resolution

1  day

Transformation parameter availability

Yes

Checkpoint Availability

Yes

Distribution format

• JPEG ()

OnLine resource

NSIDC data catalogue ( WWW:LINK )

OnLine resource

NISE1 - NRT SSM/I-SSMIS EASE-Grid Daily ( WWW:LINK )

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Statement

http://nsidc.org/data/docs/daac/nise1_nise.gd.html

Attribute description

observation

Content type

Physical measurement

Description

0

File identifier

3707a5a2-a12b-486d-b2c0-5ab839b7386d XML

Metadata language

English

Character set

UTF8

Hierarchy level

Series

Hierarchy level name

BlackSea - CH04 - Climate

Date stamp

2016-11-17T12:34:12Z

Metadata standard name

ISO 19115-3 - Emodnet Checkpoint - Upstream Data

Metadata standard version

1.0