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: ...

All NSIDC DAAC data, including SMAP data sets, in NASA Earthdata Cloud can be accessed via HTTPS through https://cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/site/collections/directory/NSIDC_CPRD/gov.nasa.eosdis .

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The international Arctic Rain on Snow Study (AROSS), led by NSIDC, focuses on the effects of a growing problem in the Arctic. With increasing frequency, rain falls on snow, refreezes, and forms an icy ...

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 ...

A prolonged period of extensive ice sheet melting from roughly July 7 to July 20 tipped the 2025 melt season to above the 1981 to 2010 average for total melt-day extent (Figure 1a). Through July 20, ...

Surface melting on the Greenland Ice Sheet is on a slightly above-average track for the 2025 melt season, with melt along the western coast leading the way. Overall, total melt-day extent as of June ...

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 ...

Effective May 5, 2025, NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) will decommission its snow and ice data products from the Coasts, Oceans, and Geophysics Science Division (COGS). As ...

Arctic sea ice extent through most of April changed very little. Only at the end of the month did extent begin to decline. Because the month started with unusually low extent, however, the average ...