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  • Improves access to Earth science data and information.
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  • Provides a neutral forum for Earth science data experts to collaborate, learn and solve communitywide problems affecting access, dissemination and use of Earth science data and information.
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Featured ESIP Partner - NSIDC
The National Snow and Ice Data Center offers some of their data in the form of images and maps.

NSIDC created Google Earth files that enable you to overlay data - based images on a virtual globe. Their goal is to help people better understand the cryosphere - where the world is frozen - by making their data more visible and interactive. You can use Google Earth to view snow, ice, glaciers, permafrost, and sea ice on the globe.

The NSIDC "Atlas of the Cryosphere" Web site allows visitors to explore and dynamically map the Earth's frozen regions. Viewed from a polar perspective, the available scenes include snow cover, sea ice extent and concentration, glaciers,permafrost, and other critical components of the Earth's cryosphere.

View NSIDC Data on Virtual Globes: Google Earth or through the MapServer application Atlas of the Cyosphere.