Updated Website
NSIDC Sea Ice Index
National Snow and Ice Data Center
The updated website is available at:
http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index
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: nsidc [at] nsidc.org.