.. _nasateam_conc:

Ice concentration: SSM/I, NASATeam algorithm
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Description
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This data set is generated from brightness temperature data and is
designed to provide a consistent time series of sea ice concentrations
spanning the coverage of several passive microwave instruments. The data
are provided in the polar stereographic projection at a grid cell size of
25 x 25 km.

Source
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`NSIDC NASATeam Website`_

Release Policy
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NASA data are not copyrighted; however, when you publish our data or
results derived therefrom, we request that you include an acknowledgment
within the text of the publication and reference list.
`Data Citation and Acknowledgements`_

References
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`Cavalieri et al. (1996)`_

`bibtex file`_

MPAS-Analysis Tasks
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- :ref:`task_climatologyMapSeaIceConcNH`
- :ref:`task_climatologyMapSeaIceConcSH`

.. _`NSIDC NASATeam Website`: http://nsidc.org/data/NSIDC-0051
.. _`Data Citation and Acknowledgements`: https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/CitingPODAAC
.. _`Cavalieri et al. (1996)`: https://doi.org/10.5067/8GQ8LZQVL0VL
.. _`bibtex file`: https://web.lcrc.anl.gov/public/e3sm/diagnostics/observations/SeaIce/SSMI/NASATeam_NSIDC0051/obs.bib