NSIDC Daily Extent Sea Ice Index - More Information - Duplication

Duplicating previous announced material. Thought it may be interesting to know NSIDC is working to keep us happy.

It's offical now.

Received a new E-Mail "alert" from NSIDC User Services: nsidc( a- t )kryos.colorado.edu

Announcing a NEW Daily Extent Archive in .CSV format, can be used in a SpreadSheet,

which Neven had already placed on Daily Graphs Page at

https://sites.google.com/site/arcticseaicegraphs/

After following links at http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/ eventually get to

ftp://sidads.colorado.edu/DATASETS/NOAA/G02135/north/daily/data/NH_seaice_extent_nrt.csv

E-Mail Contents:

Sea Ice Index Update  Tue, Aug 14, 2012 4:02 pm
From	NSIDC User Services: nsidc( a-t )kryos.colorado.edu
To	

Dear colleague,

NSIDC is pleased to announce that the Sea Ice Index data archive now has daily 
as well as monthly sea ice extent values for the Northern and Southern 
Hemispheres. The product documentation has also been updated to include an 
explanation of how these are derived and to give a clearer and complete 
description of all Sea Ice Index products. The documentation now includes the 
following:

-Flow charts to facilitate understanding of the data processing steps.
-Explanation on how the median edge position is determined and why it is used. 
The median edge is the pink line on the monthly extent images and the orange 
line on the daily extent images.
-Clearer explanation of coverage and resolution.
-More information on data accuracy.
-Explanation on how to use the Browse Image Spreadsheet Tool (BIST) to quickly 
compare images from past years.
-A short section on how the product has evolved, from 2002 to 2012.

To access the data and the new documentation, see the Sea Ice Index Web site at:
http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/

If you have questions, please contact NSIDC's User Services Office at 
nsidc( a-t ) nsidc.org.

Best regards,
NSIDC User Services --

NSIDC User Services		  Phone: +1 303-492-6199
  CIRES, 449 UCB		  Fax: +1 303-492-2468
  University of Colorado	  Email: nsidc( a-t )nsidc.org
  Boulder, CO 80309-0449, USA 	  WWW URL: http://nsidc.org


  National Snow and Ice Data Center * Distributed Active Archive Center
              * World Data Center for Glaciology, Boulder * 

Comments

[Neven]

I'm going to give this data set more of the attention it deserves next year. I'm so used to manually updating IJIS SIE and CT SIA that I couldn't fit this one in.

It's great that NSIDC has made daily data available. Anthony Watts complained about it many times, but doesn't seem to have the time yet to announce this to his audience and thank the NSIDC publicly.

[Espen Olsen]

79 Fjords Glacier,

Just studied some up2date radar images from Joekelbugt, and it looks like 79 got a calving potential of + 100 km2?

[Patrice Monroe Pustavrh]

Neven, pre 2011 values are also available at:
ftp://sidads.colorado.edu/DATASETS/NOAA/G02135/north/daily/data/NH_seaice_extent_final.csv

[Patrice Monroe Pustavrh]

It is the best if you just remove file name and use directory. There are 3 files in there:
- Current data (nrt.csv) file

- Climatology data (climatology_1979-2000.csv)

- Historical data (final.csv)

[Artful Dodger]

Thank you Jack and Neven for making this info public. In the interests of sparing the hosting Organization some spam, perhaps you could slightly 'transmogrify' the -at- symbol within the email addy above, just to throw off the spambots

please feel free to delete this comment as well!

Cheers,
Lodger

[D]

NSIDC have posted about the storm and recent events.

http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/2012/08/

[D]

Tsk, don't know who 'D' is - my user name around the climate boards is barry.

barry.

(off to fix my account)

[JackTaylor]

Lodger,
Transmorgified the e-mail addy's above. Needed to know how to EDIT a post, first time and it worked. Kind of been useless for the blog lately - used to try to do some animations, but now Neven is always a step ahead of me, maybe someday I will find something positive that's not a duplication.

Because the link(s) were not activated properly, it's doubtful any "spambots" picked the addy out, because 99% of them are coded to pick up on the mailto: scheme of the HTML Anchor Tag surrounding
mailto:[email protected]

Delete this most - no way - it's what a group or team is about - you're relevant, enjoyable, and useful for me read your comments.

Cheers,
JackT

[Artful Dodger]

Thanks, Jack. Hope the Winter is treating you well. Cheers, mate!