NSSDCA ID: ESOD-00004
Availability: At NSSDC, Ready for Offline Distribution (or Staging if Digital)
Time span: 1978-10-29 to 1986-10-29
This experimenter-supplied set of oceanic and cryospheric parameters was generated by an IBM 3081 computer onto binary magnetic tape. It contains sea ice concentration (fraction of ice cover in a 60 x 60 km field-of-view), ice surface temperature at 156-km resolution, and multiyear ice fraction in the Northern Hemisphere at 60-km resolution. It also contains land snow, ice sheet, sea surface temperatures, and wind speeds at resolutions of 60 to 156 km. All parameters are derived from the CELL-ALL (NSSDC ID 78-098A-08B) tape radiances measured in some of the 10 channels (dual-polarized: 37, 21, 18, 10.7, and 6.6 GHz). There is one PARM-SS tape every 6 data days.
In 1995 the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) indicated no interest in receiving this data set as part of the Earth Science data transition plan.
Questions and comments about this data collection can be directed to: Coordinated Request and User Support Office
Name | Role | Original Affiliation | |
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Dr. Per Gloersen | Data Provider | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | per@icesat2.gsfc.nasa.gov |