AMSR2 - Sea Ice Concentration

NOAA CoastWatch / OceanWatch / PolarWatch Sea Ice Concentration, Level 3, daily and daily 4-day rolling merge, polar stereographic mapped composites -  AMSR-2

Data Access
THREDDS

Aggregated and Per-file Views: 

https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/thredds/socd/coastwatch/catalog_amsr2_gw1_ice_conc_daily.html

Top Level Sea Ice Catalog: 

https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/thredds/socd/coastwatch/catalog_coastwatch_ice.html

ERDDAP

https://coastwatch.noaa.gov/erddap/search/index.html?page=1&itemsPerPage=1000&searchFor=Ice+AMSR2

Sample Filenames

GWXCW_W2019203_C15_002140_020039_033940_051540_065439_083040_100940_114840_132440_150341_164242_182143_200342_214543_224240_NP06_IceConc.nc


Where:
GWXCW is
W2019203 is W year and day of year: WYYYYdoy
C15 indicates number of granules in composite (generally 14 or 15)
Series of 6 digit numbers are start times each granule included in the composite
NP06 (or SP06) indicates mapped to Polar Stereographic Projection for North Pole (NP06) or South Pole (SP06) 
Ice Conc is product name = Ice Concentration
.nc is NetCDF format (CF compliant)

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