Alternate title

Northern Hemisphere EASE-Grid Snow Cover and Sea Ice Extent

Date

Identifier

Snow and ice mass, thickness and extent | Coverage (by area) of ice on the water body by image analysis | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration USA | Northern Hemisphere EASE-Grid Snow Cover and Sea Ice Extent

Other citation details

Planeta Black Azov Seas Ice Cover

Purpose

Estimate the sea ice extent

Status

onGoing On going

Maintenance and update frequency

periodic

Used by challenges

• BlackSea - CH04 - Climate

Environmental matrix

• Marine water

Production mode

• Delayed

Visibility

• Use of open search engines, searching by name either the data provider or the characteristics

Policy visibility

• There is detailed information provided to understand data policy

Readyness

• Format not or not well documented

Parameter Discovery Vocabulary (P02)

• Snow and ice mass, thickness and extent

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

• Oceanographic geographical features

Processing level of characteristics

• High level analyzed

Data delivery mechanisms

• Online discovery and downloading services

Parameter Usage Vocabulary (P01)

• Coverage (by area) of ice on the water body by image analysis

Parameter Usage Vocabulary (other)

• Northern Hemisphere EASE-Grid Snow Cover and Sea Ice Extent

Agreed Parameter Groups (P03)

• Cryosphere

Service extent

• The datasets are referenced in a public national catalogue, in an international catalogue service

Access constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

Unrestricted

Use limitation

Open and Free. No charge

Spatial representation type

vector Vector

Distance

1  degree

Metadata language

Français

Character set

utf8 UTF8

Topic category

• Oceans

Environment description

The data will be used to estimate the ice cover changein the last 40 years.

Begin date

1971-01-01

End date

1995-12-31 After

Number of dimensions

0

Dimension name

Time

Resolution

1  month

Transformation parameter availability

Yes

Checkpoint Availability

Yes

Distribution format

• NetCDF ()

OnLine resource

PSD Gridded Climate Datasets ( WWW:LINK )

OnLine resource

NH EASE-Grid Snow and Sea Ice Extend ( WWW:LINK )

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Statement

http://nsidc.org/data/nsidc-0046.html

Attribute description

observation

Content type

Physical measurement

Description

0

File identifier

cc46994b-dcfc-41b8-9466-23ef9eb2672f XML

Metadata language

English

Character set

UTF8

Hierarchy level

Series

Hierarchy level name

BlackSea - CH04 - Climate

Date stamp

2016-11-17T12:33:21Z

Metadata standard name

ISO 19115-3 - Emodnet Checkpoint - Upstream Data

Metadata standard version

1.0