NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC)

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The Images of the Antarctic Ice Shelves tool as well as the Images of Antarctic Ice Shelves, Version 1 data set, accessible through the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC) has been retired as of 13 June 2023. Images of Antarctic Ice Shelves, Version 1 data has been incorporated into the Images of the Antarctic Ice Shelves, Version 2 data set.

The SnowEx20 Grand Mesa IOP Computed Tomography Snow Microstructure, Version 1 data set is now available at the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC). This data set characterizes snow microstructure of six snow pits from the SnowEx 2020 Grand Mesa, Colorado Intensive Observation Period using microcomputed tomography (micro-CT).

The ICESat-2 Calibration/Validation LVIS L1B Georeferenced Imagery, Version 1 data set is now available at the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC).
Version 6 of the ATLAS/ICESat-2 L3A Along Track Inland Surface Water Data (ATL13QL) data set is now accessible through the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC).
The ATLAS/ICESat-2 L3A Sea Ice Height Quick Look (ATL07QL), Version 6 and ATLAS/ICESat-2 L3A Sea Ice Freeboard Quick Look (ATL10QL), Version 6 data sets, accessible through the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC), have been updated.
The LVIS Facility L2 Geolocated Surface Elevation and Canopy Height Product, Version 1 data set, accessible through the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC), has been updated to include data over Greenland for April and July 2022.

The DMSP SSM/I-SSMIS Daily Polar Gridded Brightness Temperatures, Version 6 data set, accessible through the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC), has been updated through 5 April 2023. This data set provides daily gridded brightness temperatures derived from passive microwave sensors and distributed in a polar stereographic projection.

Multiple ATLAS/ICESat-2 data sets, accessible through the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC), are being updated to Version 6.

The GLIMS Glacier Database, Version 1 dataset, available via the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC), has been updated. This update includes new data on glacier outlines and improvements to existing ones.

The ATLAS/ICESat-2 L2A Global Geolocated Photon Data (ATL03) and ATLAS/ICESat-2 L2A Normalized Relative Backscatter Profiles (ATL04) data sets, accessible through the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC), are being updated to Version 6.
The ATLAS/ICESat-2 L1B Converted Telemetry Data (ATL02) data set, accessible through the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC), has been updated to Version 6.

VIIRS Collection 2 (Version 2) will be available at the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC) in the coming weeks.

The Images of the Antarctic Ice Shelves tool as well as the Images of Antarctic Ice Shelves, Version 1 data set, accessible through the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC) will be retired on 31 May 2023. Images of Antarctic Ice Shelves, Version 1 data has been incorporated into the Images of the Antarctic Ice Shelves, Version 2 data set.

Temporal updates for the MEaSUREs Greenland Image Mosaics from Sentinel-1A and -1B, Version 4 and MEaSUREs Greenland 6 and 12 day Ice Sheet Velocity Mosaics from SAR, Version 2 data sets are now available through the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC). The temporal coverage for both the image mosaics and 6 and 12 day velocity mosaics data now spans from 01 January 2015 to 17 February 2023.

The SMAPVEX19-22 Massachusetts Temporary Soil Moisture Network, Version 1, and SMAPVEX19-22 Millbrook Temporary Soil Moisture Network, Version 1 data sets, accessible through the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC), have been updated to include data through 31 October 2021.

The ICESat L4 Seasonal Gridded Sea Ice Thickness, Version 1 data set is now available at the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC).

Multilayer Greenland Ice Surface Temperature, Surface Albedo, and Water Vapor from MODIS, Version 1, accessible through the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC), has been updated to include ice surface temperature (IST) data through 31 August 2021. This multilayer data set includes standard MODIS Collection 6.1 ice surface temperature (IST) and derived melt map, as well as MODIS Collection 6.0 albedo and water vapor for Greenland, at a spatial resolution of 0.78 km.

The SnowEx20 Time Series Snow Pit Measurements, Version 1 data set is now available at the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC). This data set is a time-series of snow pit measurements obtained by the SnowEx community during between October 2019 and May 2020. Data were collected from snow pits in California, Colorado, Idaho, New Mexico, and Utah, USA.  Also available are photos of the field notes and snow pit sites.