This year's Arctic sea ice extent as dropped to a new minimum of 3.4 million square kilometers. According to the NSIDC this is 18% less than the last unprecedented minimum in 2007 and about 49% less than the 1979-2000 average...
The Arctic sea ice extent has shrunk already below the value observed in 2007. Current predictions of the Arctic minimum sea ice extent for this year suggest a new record minimum of between 3.5 and 4.0 million km² (see...
ICDC updated MODIS Snow Cover data:
03/2000 to 07/2012, monthlyFeb. 24, 2000 to July 31, 2012, daily
You can find the restricted data set here.
As a first step towards providing data about clouds, ICDC now offers data about cloud cover: vertical profiles of the cloud fraction as well as low level, mid level, high level, and all level, i.e. total, cloud fraction. The data...
Now available at ICDC: Monthly averages of the soil moisture ECV product from the ESA CCI Soil Moisture project. We have computed monthly averages of soil moisture, retrieval noise and predominant data quality flag. Like the...
