ISLSCP II: Snow, Sea Ice and Oceans Parameters at 1 degree spatial resolution (1986-1995)

The International Satellite Land Surface Climatology Project, Initiative II (ISLSCP II) is a follow on project from The International Satellite Land Surface Climatology Project (ISLSCP). ISLSCP II had the lead role in addressing land-atmosphere interactions - process modelling, data retrieval algorithms, field experiment design and execution, and the development of global data sets. The ISLSCP II dataset contains comprehensive data over the 10 year period from 1986 to 1995, from the International Satellite Land Surface Climatology Project (ISLSCP).

This dataset contains:

*Sea Ice extent

*Sea surface temperature

*Snow cover

The data are mapped to consistent grids (0.5 x 0.5 degrees for topography, 1 x 1 degrees for meteorological parameters). Some data have a grid size of 0.25 x 0.25 degrees. The temporal resolution for most data sets is monthly (however a few are at finer resolution - 3 hourly). This dataset is public.

Date (Publication): 2003-12-10T00:00:00

Date (Creation): 2003-12-10T00:00:00

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/211ebf23e1914728b719752549547abb

Citation identifier: NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / 211ebf23e1914728b719752549547abb

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Unavailable	Armstrong, Richard	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Knowles, Ken	Unavailable	Author
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	Custodian
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	Distributor
unknown		unknown	Principal investigator
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	pointofContact
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	Publisher

Maintenance and update frequency: Not planned

Update scope: Dataset

Keywords

ISLSCP
NASA
Snow
Sea Ice and Oceans

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

atmospheric conditions

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.

Use constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: Under the following licence http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/, appropriate use of these data may fall under any use. This message is intended as guidance, always read the full licence. When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.

Spatial representation type: Grid

Language: English

Topic category

Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Begin date: 1986-01-01T00:00:00

End date: 1995-12-31T23:59:59

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

Distribution format

Name	Version
Data are ASCII formatted.

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	Distributor

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/211ebf23e1914728b719752549547abb	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/islscp2/data/snow_sea-ice_oceans	DOWNLOAD

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/islscp2/data/snow_sea-ice_oceans/sea_ice_extent_xdeg/1_sea_ice_extent_doc.pdf	ISLSCP 2: Global Monthly Sea Ice Concentrations.

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/islscp2/data/snow_sea-ice_oceans/sea_surface_temp_1deg/0_sea_surface_temp_readme.txt	Optimally Interpolated (Version 2) Monthly and Weekly Sea Surface Temperature

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/islscp2/data/snow_sea-ice_oceans/sea_surface_temp_1deg/1_sea_surface_temp_doc.pdf	Optimally Interpolated (Version 2) Monthly and Weekly Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Analyses (1986-1995) and Monthly SST Climatology (1971-2000).

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/islscp2/data/snow_sea-ice_oceans/sea_ice_extent_xdeg/0_sea_ice_extent_readme.txt	Global Gridded Monthly Sea Ice Concentrations

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/islscp2/data/snow_sea-ice_oceans/snow_cover_xdeg/0_snow_cover_readme.txt	Gridded Monthly Northern Hemisphere Snow Cover Extent

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/islscp2/data/snow_sea-ice_oceans/snow_cover_xdeg/1_snow_cover_doc.pdf	Northern Hemisphere Monthly Snow Cover Extent.

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Conformance result

Title: Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Statement: Data obtained over a 10 year period from 1986 to 1995, collated by the International Satellite Land Surface Climatology Project (ISLSCP) II. A copy of these data was obtained by the BADC to assist the UK research community.

Metadata

File identifier: 211ebf23e1914728b719752549547abb XML

Metadata language: English

Character set: UTF8

Parent identifier: International Satellite Land Surface Climatology Project, Initiative II (ISLSCP II) Dataset
9759525d6ef164940e54bddeb7001dca

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Date stamp: 2026-02-09T03:06:05

Metadata standard name: UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version: 2.3

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	Point of contact

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