Alternate title

Passive Microwave Sea Ice Products

Date

Identifier

Snow and ice mass, thickness and extent | Coverage (by area) of ice on the water body by Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for EOS (AMSRE-E) | National Snow and Ice Data Centre NSIDC | Passive Microwave Sea Ice Products

Purpose

NSIDC Sea Ice Data Centre

Status

onGoing On going

Maintenance and update frequency

As needed

Used by challenges

• Atlantic - CH04 - Climate

Environmental matrix

• Ice

Production mode

• Delayed

Visibility

• Search via reference catalogue (e.g. MyOcean, GEOSS Geoportal…)

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 Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for EOS (AMSRE-E)

Parameter Usage Vocabulary (other)

• CH4_016

Agreed Parameter Groups (P03)

• Cryosphere

Service extent

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

Validation

• Draft

Access constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

Unrestricted

Use limitation

Open and Free. No charge

Spatial representation type

vector Vector

Distance

25000  meter

Metadata language

Français

Character set

utf8 UTF8

Topic category

• Oceans

Environment description

Various types of ice data (Passive Microwave) collated and supplied through this link likely use for the ice challenge (16 of the 17 listed are potential Challenge datasets)

Begin date

1966-10-03

Dimension name

Time

Resolution

1-30  day

Transformation parameter availability

Yes

Checkpoint Availability

Yes

Distribution format

• PNG ()

• ESRI Shapefile ()

• NetCDF ()

• Ascii ()

• GeoTIFF ()

• KML ()

• HDF-EOS ()

OnLine resource

Data Summaries: Passive Microwave Sea Ice Products ( WWW:LINK )

OnLine resource

http://nsidc.org/data/seaice/pm.html ( WWW:LINK )

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Statement

Each data set has page that includes a user guide & citation

Attribute description

observation

Content type

Physical measurement

Description

na

File identifier

e55b1c57-911b-4f08-9475-6dee980a41d2 XML

Metadata language

English

Character set

UTF8

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Hierarchy level name

Atlantic - CH04 - Climate

Date stamp

2016-11-17T12:36:46Z

Metadata standard name

ISO 19115-3 - Emodnet Checkpoint - Upstream Data

Metadata standard version

1.0