Alternate title

MODIS/Terra Sea Ice Extent Daily L3 Global 4 km EASE-Grid Day, Version 6

Date

Identifier

Snow and ice mass, thickness and extent | Coverage (by area) of ice on the water body by image analysis | National Snow & Ice Data Center USA | MODIS/Terra Sea Ice Extent Daily L3 Global 4 km EASE-Grid Day, Version 6

Other citation details

MODIS/Terra Sea Ice Extent Daily L3 Global 4 km EASE-Grid Day, Version 6

Purpose

Estimate the sea ice extent

Status

onGoing On going

Maintenance and update frequency

Continual

Used by challenges

• BlackSea - CH04 - Climate

Environmental matrix

• Marine water

Production mode

• Real-time

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 proprietary and content clearly specified (e.g. autodescriptive like ODV, NetCDF CF) or at least with appropriate document describing the content

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)

• MODIS/Terra Sea Ice Extent Daily L3 Global 4 km

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

4  km

Metadata language

Français

Character set

utf8 UTF8

Topic category

• Oceans

Environment description

The data will be used to estimate the trend in the Black sea ice cover extent for the last 10 years

Begin date

2000-02-24

Number of dimensions

0

Dimension name

Time

Resolution

12  hour

Transformation parameter availability

Yes

Checkpoint Availability

Yes

Distribution format

• GeoTIFF ()

OnLine resource

NSIDC data catalogue ( WWW:LINK )

OnLine resource

Modis/Terra L3 Global 4 km ( WWW:LINK )

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Statement

http://nsidc.org/data/docs/daac/modis/mod29e1d/index.html

Attribute description

observation

Content type

Physical measurement

Description

0

File identifier

23e8dcaa-1627-4534-8f29-c7ee39b8af61 XML

Metadata language

English

Character set

UTF8

Hierarchy level

Series

Hierarchy level name

BlackSea - CH04 - Climate

Date stamp

2016-11-17T12:35:30Z

Metadata standard name

ISO 19115-3 - Emodnet Checkpoint - Upstream Data

Metadata standard version

1.0