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U.S. National Ice Center (USNIC) ice charts & data

Daily Arctic Marginal Ice Zone, Overlay and SPAROS shapefiles and KMZ; weekly SIGRID-3 shapefile/KMZ; Antarctic, Great Lakes, Mid-Atlantic and IMS snow/ice products; plus archives, per the checked Products and Arctic Data pages. Hemispheric (Arctic/Antarctic) products are produced on an alternating weekly schedule. Exact archive start year and total product count are Not stated on the checked pages.

Open usicecenter.gov
Signal Scoredraft model
81
Access
No key · none
20
Licence clarity
Custom · terms linked
13
Evidence
3 source links checked
15
Freshness
verified 2026-11-05
20
Documentation
docs · limits · coverage
13

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Access
none
Free tier
Free public daily shapefiles/KMZ, weekly SIGRID-3 shapefile/KMZ, and other ice products and archives; no account.
Rate limits
Not stated
Licence
Customterms
Licence note
US federal / U.S. Navy tri-agency centre (NOAA, U.S. Navy and USCG). No separate data licence is stated on the checked Products pages; Signal Lab links to USNIC's product pages rather than mirroring its charts. USNIC's production notice describes an alternating weekly schedule for Hemispheric products: Arctic one week, Antarctic the next.
Attribution
No attribution requirement recorded.

// Evidence · verified 2026-11-05

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  2. 02usicecenter.gov/Products
  3. 03usicecenter.gov/Products/ArcticData

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osintmaritimesea-icearcticantarcticnavy

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