The NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC) will add 4 IceBridge data sets to NASA Earthdata Cloud on 14 August 2025, completing the migration of all ...

ICESat-2 and CryoSat-2 L4 Monthly Arctic Snow Depth and Sea Ice Thickness, Version 1 is now available at the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC). This ...

The NSIDC DAAC User Services Office provides support for direct data download from Earthdata Cloud HTTPS and access to our AWS Simple Storage Service (S3) buckets. For more details on these access ...

The study draws from multiple data sources: the Automated Surface Observing System (ASOS); a 1996 study examining global ...

For further information, please see our Please note that gaps in the DMSP SSMIS data, which began in late spring of 2025 when the DoD deprioritized SSMIS data processing, may continue through the end ...

The following data set will continue to provide SSMIS data, along with AMSR2 data: ...

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NOAA@NSIDC is pleased to announce the release of Sea Ice Index, Version 4. This new version uses input data from the JAXA GCOM-W1 AMSR2 instrument for 1 January 2025 through forward processing. Input ...

Arctic sea ice extent tracked at near-record low levels through much of June, hitting daily record low levels from June 20 to 26. Sea ice coverage was particularly low in the Barents and Kara Seas, ...

What This Means For You: As a user of these datasets, you should anticipate a gap in data availability during the transition to alternative sources. We are actively evaluating possible alternative ...

Using decades of satellite snow data from NASA’s NSIDC DAAC, researchers discovered that caribou in the Bathurst herd begin their epic migration just days after Arctic snowmelt begins—revealing a ...