Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences

University of Colorado, Boulder

Components of NSIDC

Provides

tools for

data access

Researches the cryosphere and data science

Educates

the public

about the

cryosphere

Supports data users

Manages

and

distributes

scientific

data

Supports

local and

traditional

knowledge

Cold Regions Hydrology

Falling Snow

Glaciers

Icesheets

Informatics

Local and Traditional Knowledge

Permafrost

Sea Ice

Snow

Social Science

Archives and distributes Antarctic glaciological and cryospheric data collected by the U.S. Antarctic Program.

Archives and distributes cryospheric and related environmental data from NASA satellite, airborne, and field campaigns.

Provides data management of local observations and Indigenous knowledge.

Archives and distributes cryospheric in situ and operational data.

• AMSR-E (Aqua) • AMSR (ADEOS II)• Aquarius Soil Moisture• SMMR (Nimbus 7)• SSM/I, SSMIS• SMAP

VIS/IR Moderate Resolution

• MODIS (Terra/Aqua)snow and ice products

• AVHRR polar data (NOAA series)

Satellite & Airborne Altimetry

• ICESat/GLAS altimetry and atmospheric lidar data

• ICESat-2• Operation IceBridge

Passive Microwave

AMSR-E 12.5 km Sea Ice Concentration MODIS Monthly Global Snow Cover IceBridge ATM Qfit Data on Landsat Image

Data from NASA's Earth Observing System (EOS) satellites and other satellite and field measurement programs

The data management arm of NSIDC greatly benefits from in-house scientific expertise

Research provides visibility to data management activities and NSIDC as a whole

Researchers benefit by being close to the data

Research

Data Management

3 Existing data sets1 New data set

NASA DAAC produces passive microwave sea ice data time series

NOAA @ NSIDC produces Sea Ice Index, using DAAC sea ice data as input

Arctic Sea Ice News & Analysis, funded by NASA, supports scientific analysis and blog based off Sea Ice Index