National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) DAAC
NASA's National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) provides data and information for snow and ice processes, particularly interactions among snow, ice, atmosphere, and ocean, in support of research in global change detection and model validation.
NSIDC DAAC archives and distributes cryosphere and climate related products from several EOS sensors including:
- Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer - EOS (AMSR-E)
- AMSR2
- Aquarius
- Airborne Snow Observatory (ASO)
- Cold Land Processes Field Experiment (CLPX)
- Global Land Ice Measurements (GLIMS)
- IceBridge
- ICESat/Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (GLAS)
- Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2)
- Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)
- Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP)
- Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer (SMMR)
- Special Sensor Microwave Imager (SSM/I)
- Special Sensor Microwave Imager/Sounder (SSMIS)
- Snow Experiment (SnowEX)
- Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS)
NSIDC DAAC also provides general data and information services to the cryospheric and polar processes research community. NSIDC DAAC is located in Boulder, CO. NSIDC DAAC has served at the forefront of cryospheric data management practices since 1976. NSIDC DAAC is part of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), a joint institute of University of Colorado Boulder and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Contact Information
Amanda Leon, DAAC Manager
Kate Heightley, Deputy DAAC Manager
Walt Meier, DAAC Scientist
Chris Bond, DAAC System Engineer
Lisa Booker, User Services
Steve Tanner, IceBridge Project Manager
CIRES, Campus Box 449
University of Colorado at Boulder
Boulder, CO 80309-0449
Snow and Ice Data
Data orders may be placed at NSIDC DAAC through Earthdata Search or Data Pool. Users may also access information about NSIDC DAAC data holdings through the NSIDC Search on NSIDC DAAC’s web site. NSIDC DAAC data products are available by HTTPS.
IceBridge Data Portal fact sheet:
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Webinar: Operation IceBridge: Come Discover a Decade of Polar Data
NASA's Operation IceBridge is an airborne mission that collects a wide range of remote sensing measurements in the polar regions of the world. The National Snow & Ice Data Center (NSIDC) is managing the data archive for all IceBridge data, and so an easy-to-use Portal has been developed.
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Webinar: A New Era for Gridded Passive Microwave Data at NASA's NSIDC DAAC
Available since 1978, scientists have used passive microwave measurements to derive significant and meaningful climate records of many parameters, including the dramatic decline in Arctic sea ice, even though the spatial resolution has been relatively course compared to visible sensors like Landsat.
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Webinar: Satellite Techno-Archeology: Old Data Answers New Questions
Learn how NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) are recovering old data to answer new questions.
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Webinar: Discovering and Differentiating Data with NSIDC Search
NSIDC DAAC has developed a data set search tool with researchers' needs and preferences in mind. In this webinar, we will discuss the strategies that NSIDC DAAC has employed and explore the features of the NSIDC Search tool.
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Webinar: Operation IceBridge Portal - Discover a Wealth of Polar Data (Part 1)
This webinar covers the objectives of the IceBridge mission, provides an overview of the wide range of available data products, and provides a demonstration of the IceBridge Data Portal.
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Webinar: Operation IceBridge Portal - Discover a Wealth of Polar Data (Part 2)
This webinar covers the objectives of the IceBridge mission, provides an overview of the wide range of available data products, and provides a demonstration of the IceBridge Data Portal.
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