Dataset
ESA Sea Ice Climate Change Initiative (Sea_Ice_cci): Nimbus-5 ESMR Sea Ice Concentration, version 1.0
Update Frequency: Not Planned
Latest Data Update: 2023-01-04
Status: Completed
Online Status: ONLINE
Publication State: Citable
Publication Date: 2023-01-17
DOI Publication Date: 2023-02-03
Download Stats: last 12 months
Dataset Size: 2.05K Files | 9GB
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Abstract
This dataset provides Sea Ice Concentration (SIC) for the polar regions, derived from the Nimbus-5 Electrical Scanning Microwave Radiometer (ESMR), which operated between 1972 and 1977. It is processed with an algorithm using the single channel ESMR data (19.35 GHz), and has been gridded at 25 km grid spacing. This is the first version of the product, v1.0.
This product was generated in the context of the ESA Climate Change Initiative Programme (ESA CCI) by the Sea Ice CCI (Sea_Ice_cci) project.
Citable as: Tonboe, R.T.; Kolbe, W.M.; Toudal Pedersen, L.; Lavergne, T.; Sørensen, A.; Saldo, R. (2023): ESA Sea Ice Climate Change Initiative (Sea_Ice_cci): Nimbus-5 ESMR Sea Ice Concentration, version 1.0. NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis, 03 February 2023. doi:10.5285/34a15b96f1134d9e95b9e486d74e49cf. https://dx.doi.org/10.5285/34a15b96f1134d9e95b9e486d74e49cf
Abbreviation: Not defined
Keywords: Sea Ice, ESA, CCI, Arctic, Antarctic
Details
| Previous Info: |
No news update for this record
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No related previous identifiers.
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| Access rules: |
Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.
Use of these data is covered by the following licence(s): https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/licences/specific_licences/esacci_seaice_terms_and_conditions.pdf When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record. |
| Data lineage: |
Data were processed by the ESA CCI Sea Ice project team. The original ESMR tape archive data in swath projection have been made available online by NASA Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC). |
| Data Quality: |
The uncertainties and quality flags of the sea ice concentration are included in the netCDF files.
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| File Format: |
Data are in NetCDF format.
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Related Documents
Citations: 5
The following citations have been automatically harvested from external sources associated with this resource where DOI tracking is possible. As such some citations may be missing from this list whilst others may not be accurate. Please contact the helpdesk to raise any issues to help refine these citation trackings.
| Goosse, H., Dalaiden, Q., Feba, F., Mezzina, B., & Fogt, R. L. (2024). A drop in Antarctic sea ice extent at the end of the 1970s. Communications Earth & Environment, 5(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01793-x https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01793-x |
| Kolbe, W. M., Tonboe, R. T., & Stroeve, J. (2023). Mapping of sea ice concentration using the NASA NIMBUS 5 ESMR microwave radiometer data 1972–1977. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2023-289 https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2023-289 |
| Kolbe, W. M., Tonboe, R. T., & Stroeve, J. (2024). Mapping of sea ice concentration using the NASA NIMBUS 5 Electrically Scanning Microwave Radiometer data from 1972–1977. Earth System Science Data, 16(3), 1247–1264. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-1247-2024 https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-1247-2024 |
| Tellefsen, E. H., Kolbe, W. M., & Tonboe, R. T. (2024). Updated Sea Ice Products for the NIMBUS 5 Electrically Scanning Microwave Radiometer data from 1972–1977 [Data set]. Technical University of Denmark. https://doi.org/10.11583/DTU.27835929.V1 https://doi.org/10.11583/dtu.27835929.v1 |
| Tellefsen, E. H., Tonboe, R. T., & Kolbe, W. M. (2026). Mapping sea ice concentration using Nimbus-5 ESMR and local dynamical tie points. Earth System Science Data, 18(4), 2891–2906. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2891-2026 https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-2891-2026 |
Process overview
This dataset was generated by a combination of instruments deployed on platforms
and computations as detailed below.
Instrument/Platform pairings
| ESMR | Deployed on: NIMBUS 5 satellite |
Computation Element: 1
| Title | DTU Space ESMR NIMBUS-5 algorithm |
| Abstract | Sea ice concentration is obtained from ESMR passive microwave satellite data over the polar regions. The processing chain features: 1) dynamic tuning of tie-points and algorithms, 2) correction of atmospheric noise using a Radiative Transfer Model, 3) computation of per-pixel uncertainties, and 4) one channel sea ice concentration algorithm. |
| Input Description | None |
| Output Description | None |
| Software Reference | None |
| Output Description | None |
- units: K
- var_id: Tb
- long_name: (uncorrected) brightness temperatures
- var_id: Lambert_Azimuthal_Grid
- units: %
- long_name: algorithm uncertainty (one standard deviation) of concentration of sea ice
- var_id: algorithm_standard_error
- units: K
- var_id: Tb_corr
- long_name: corrected brightness temperatures
- units: %
- standard_name: sea_ice_area_fraction
- var_id: ice_conc
- long_name: fully filtered concentration of sea ice using atmospheric correction of brightness temperatures and open water filters
- units: %
- long_name: sea ice concentration estimates as retrieved by the algorithm, and that were edited away by the various filters
- var_id: raw_ice_conc_values
- units: %
- long_name: smearing uncertainty (one standard deviation) of concentration of sea ice
- var_id: smearing_standard_error
- standard_name: sea_ice_area_fraction status_flag
- var_id: status_flag
- long_name: status flag bit array for sea ice concentration retrievals
- var_id: time_bnds
- units: %
- standard_name: sea_ice_area_fraction standard_error
- long_name: total uncertainty (one standard deviation) of concentration of sea ice
- var_id: total_standard_error
- units: km
- standard_name: projection_x_coordinate
- long_name: x coordinate of projection (eastings)
- var_id: xc
- units: km
- standard_name: projection_y_coordinate
- long_name: y coordinate of projection (northings)
- var_id: yc
Co-ordinate Variables
- units: degrees_north
- standard_name: latitude
- var_id: lat
- long_name: latitude coordinate
- units: degrees_east
- standard_name: longitude
- var_id: lon
- long_name: longitude coordinate
- standard_name: time
- var_id: time
- units: days
- long_name: reference time of product
Coverage
Temporal Range
Start time:
1972-12-11T00:00:00
End time:
1977-05-10T23:59:59
Geographic Extent
90.0000° |
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-180.0000° |
180.0000° |
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-90.0000° |
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