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    Northern Hemisphere EASE-Grid Annual Freezing and Thawing Indices, 1901 - 2002, Version 1

    Metadata Updated: February 22, 2025

    This data set contains annual freezing and thawing indices for each year from 1901 to 2002 on the 25 km resolution Equal-Area Scalable Earth Grid (EASE-Grid). Annual freezing and thawing indices are defined as the cumulative number of degree-days when air temperatures are below and above 0 degrees C. The values were calculated based upon the monthly mean air temperature from the 1901-2002, 0.5 deg. global land temperatures from the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit (Mitchell and Jones, 2005).

    Two ASCII files are available for each year for the freezing and thawing indices, respectively. Each file is approximately 5.5 MB in size. In addition, there is one 10.4 MB ASCII file defining the latitude and longitude coordinates for each grid point. The data set is available in compressed form via FTP.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. Non-Federal: This dataset is covered by different Terms of Use than Data.gov. License: No license information was provided.

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    Metadata Created Date February 22, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date February 22, 2025

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    Harvested from nasa test json

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date February 22, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date February 22, 2025
    Publisher NSIDC
    Maintainer
    Identifier C1386206906-NSIDCV0
    Data First Published 1901-01-01
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2025-02-19
    Category geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
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    Homepage URL https://cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov:443/search/concepts/C1386206906-NSIDCV0.html
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -180.0 0.0 180.0 90.0
    Program Code 026:001
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 41a7f66f403d6186abf9ac9a4e37c756229f15b87adc6958df7f080a92383bfa
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 1901-01-01T00:00:00Z/2002-12-31T23:59:59.999Z

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