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NSIDC Sea Ice Index
Updated Website NSIDC Sea Ice Index National Snow and Ice Data Center
Updated Website
NSIDC Sea Ice Index
National Snow and Ice Data Center
The updated website is available at:
http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index
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The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) announces the redesign and enhancement of its Sea Ice Index website with new data set updates. The Sea Ice Index website is available at: http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index
The Sea Ice Index pages have been redesigned so that graphs and images are easier to find. Thumbnails now take users to the Web Image Spreadsheet Tool (WIST) where images from different time periods can be quickly compared.
GIS compatible files (shapefiles) of monthly ice coverage through September 2007 are now available.
NSIDC's sea ice animations are also now available in the dataset catalog of NOAA's Science On a Sphere (http://sos.noaa.gov/). Animations of sea ice concentration show the annual cycle and give some insight into its variability, while a series of September monthly means from 1987 to present highlights the change in the annual arctic minimum sea ice
extent through time.
Updates to the "National Ice Center Arctic Sea Ice Charts and Climatologies in Gridded Format" data set have also been made. A browse feature is now available which allows for quick visual comparisons of different time periods and products. Prior to this update images could only be viewed individually by downloading them from the FTP site.
To access the new browse feature, please select the "Browse" link at: http://nsidc.org/data/g02172.html
Inquiries about these updates may be directed to NSIDC User Services at: external-linkhttp://nsidc@nsidc.org.