About the National Snow and Ice Data Center

NSIDC is part of the University of Colorado Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, and is affiliated with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Geophysical Data Center through a cooperative agreement. NSIDC serves as one of eight Distributed Active Archive Centers funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to archive and distribute data from NASA's past and current satellites and field measurement programs. NSIDC also supports the National Science Foundation through the Arctic System Science Data Coordination Center and the Antarctic Glaciological Data Center.

Established by NOAA as a national information and referral center in support of polar and cryospheric research, NSIDC archives and distributes digital and analog snow and ice data. We also maintain information about snow cover, avalanches, glaciers, ice sheets, freshwater ice, sea ice, ground ice, permafrost, atmospheric ice, paleoglaciology, and ice cores.

NSIDC publishes reports and a quarterly newsletter, and creates and distributes data products on CD-ROM and other media. It also holds a large library collection of monographs, technical reports, and journals.

Additional information is available in the NSIDC Annual Report, 2001 (PDF file, ~2.1 MB)

	University of Colorado at Boulder
	Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)
	National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) NOAA at NSIDC
	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) NASA Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) at NSIDC
	National Science Foundation (NSF) NSF Arctic System Science Data Coordination Center (ADCC) at NSIDC NSF Antarctic Glaciological Data Center (AGDC) at NSIDC