Mapping of sea ice concentration using the NASA NIMBUS 5 Electrically Scanning Microwave Radiometer data from 1972–1977

Kolbe, Wiebke Margitta; Tonboe, Rasmus T.; Stroeve, Julienne

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-1247-2024

Articles | Volume 16, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-1247-2024

© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-1247-2024

© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 16, issue 3

Data description paper

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12 Mar 2024

Data description paper |

| 12 Mar 2024

Mapping of sea ice concentration using the NASA NIMBUS 5 Electrically Scanning Microwave Radiometer data from 1972–1977

Wiebke Margitta Kolbe, Rasmus T. Tonboe, and Julienne Stroeve

Data sets

ESA Sea Ice Climate Change Initiative (Sea_Ice_cci): Nimbus-5 ESMR Sea Ice Concentration, version 1.0 Rasmus Tage Tonboe et al. https://doi.org/10.5285/34a15b96f1134d9e95b9e486d74e49cf

Short summary

Current satellite-based sea-ice climate data records (CDRs) usually begin in October 1978 with the first multichannel microwave radiometer data. Here, we present a sea ice dataset based on the single-channel Electrical Scanning Microwave Radiometer (ESMR) that operated from 1972-1977 onboard NASA’s Nimbus 5 satellite. The data were processed using modern methods and include uncertainty estimations in order to provide an important, easy-to-use reference period of good quality for current CDRs.