March Monthly Sea Ice Concentrations for 1979-1998 (Purple)

  • Released Tuesday, May 30, 2000
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Arctic sea ice concentrations in March of each year from 1979 through 1998

Video slate image reads, "Oceans and IceMarch monthly sea ice concentrations for 1979-1998".

Video slate image reads, "Oceans and Ice

March monthly sea ice concentrations for 1979-1998".

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See http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/stories/arctic/index.html

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This page was originally published on Tuesday, May 30, 2000.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:58 PM EDT.

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Datasets used in this visualization

  • Sea Ice Concentrations (Sea Ice Concentrations from Nimbus-7 SMMR and DMSP SSM/I Passive Microwave Data) [Nimbus-7 and DMSP: SMMR and SSM/I]

    ID: 640
    Sensor: SMMR and SSM/I Dates used: 1940/03-1998/03

    This data set is generated from brightness temperature data derived from Nimbus-7 Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer (SMMR) and Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) -F8, -F11 and -F13 Special Sensor Microwave/Imager (SSM/I) radiances at a grid cell size of 25 x 25 km. The data are provided in the polar stereographic projection.

    This dataset can be found at: http://nsidc.org/data/nsidc-0051.html

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