NIC Antarctic Iceberg Locations

Summary

Locations of Antarctic icebergs that meet the criteria of 20 sqNM or greater, or 10 NM on its longest axis. Data are available from Nov 2014 to present and are updated weekly.

Time Period

Feb 2005 to Apr 2024

Spatial Coverage

Antarctic

Projection

Geographic

Data Provider

USNIC

Parameters

length nm, width nm, Iceberg

Map Settings

Variable

Map View

Time

Start

End

Data Access

ERDDAP

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Dataset Name	ERDDAP ID
Iceberg Locations from USNIC, Antarctic, 2014 to Present, Weekly	usnic_weekly_iceberg

Data Access Examples

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Full Details

The following details are from the dataset metadata. View dataset details in ERDDAP

ERDDAP Dataset Title

Iceberg Locations from USNIC, Antarctic, 2014 to Present, Weekly

ERDDAP Dataset ID

usnic_weekly_iceberg

Data Provider

USNIC

More information about this product

https://usicecenter.gov/Products/AntarcIcebergs

Data Provider Web Page

Dataset Description

U.S. National Ice Center (USNIC) is the global entity that names, tracks, and documents Antarctic icebergs that meet the criteria of 20 sqNM or greater, or 10 NM on its longest axis. Data are available from Nov 2014 to present and are updated weekly.

Time Period

Feb 20, 2005 to Apr 12, 2024

Spatial Coverage

Antarctic

Parameters

length nm, width nm, Iceberg

Data Formats

Data are available in a number of formats including NetCDF, csv, graphics and more.

Metadata

View in ERDDAP

Projection

Geographic, EPSG:4326