Arctic and Antarctic Regional Masks for Sea Ice Products

NSIDCV0 provides a set of polar ocean region masks designed primarily to support sea ice data products. The dataset, titled 'Arctic and Antarctic Regional Masks for Sea Ice and Related Data Products, Version 1', is also potentially useful for other applications in polar oceanography. Its most recent documented update was on March 13, 2026.

Use Cases

• Masking specific ocean regions to isolate sea ice signals in satellite data.
• Defining boundaries for calculating regional sea ice extent and area statistics.
• Supporting the validation of other geophysical data products in the Arctic and Antarctic.
• Providing a consistent spatial framework for comparative studies of polar ocean changes.

Strengths

• Developed by a specialized cryospheric data center (NSIDCV0), indicating domain expertise.
• Explicitly designed to support operational sea ice products, suggesting practical validation.
• Covers both polar regions (Arctic and Antarctic), enabling hemispheric comparison.

Limitations

• No column names, row counts, or specific file sizes are provided, limiting technical assessment.
• Conflicting license information: one source specifies 'other-license-specified', while another lists it as null.
• The exact creation method and spatial resolution of the mask data are not described.

Provenance

Source

NSIDCV0

Collection Method

Developed as a supporting data product, likely derived from satellite and/or bathymetric data.

Time Range

Version 1, temporal coverage not specified.

Freshness

2026-03-13 15:03:24.216131

Geography

Arctic and Antarctic ocean regions.