The Sea Ice CCI project has developed a set of multi-mission merged products for ice concentration and ice thickness in Arctic and Antarctic.
Several sea ice concentration data sets have been prepared as shown in the table below. They are based on SMMR, SSM/I and SSMIS (1929-2015) , AMSR-E (2002-2011) and AMSR2 (2013-2015).
Climate data record |
Period | Spatial res | Input data | Comment |
CCI v1 | 1991-2008 | 25 km | SSM/I | |
CCI v2 LF | 2002-2017 | 25 km | AMSR-E, AMSR2 | Low freq channel |
CCI v2 VLF | 2002-2017 | 50 km | AMSR-E, AMSR2 | Very low freq channel |
CCI v2 HF | 2002-2017 | 12.5 km | AMSR-E, AMSR2 | High freq channel |
OSI SAF v2 | 1979-2015 | 25 km | SMMR, SSM/I, SSMIS | Also known as OSI SAF - 450 |
Version 2.0 of the Sea Ice Concentration (SIC) Climate Data Record data sets from AMSR-E and AMSR2 (2002-2017) were released on 28 February 2018. The SIC Climate Data Record data set from SMMR, SSMI and SSMIS (1979 – 2015) have previously been released. The data sets are available at
http://icdc.cen.uni-hamburg.de/1/projekte/esa-cci-sea-ice-ecv0.html,
http://osisaf.met.no/p/ice/index.html#conc-reproc-v2, and in the
Ice thickness data sets
Sea ice thickness and freeboard from Arctic and Antarctic are provided from Envisat RA-2 (2002-2012) and Cryosat-2 SIRAL2 (2010 - 2017).
Version 2.0 of the sea-ice thickness dataset was released on 20 June 2018 by AWI. This dataset, in comparison to the previous dataset (v1.0), provides a number of improvements which include improved sea-ice thickness retrievals from Envisat data, an experimental data record in the southern hemisphere, the delivery of trajectory-based Level 2 products and the availability of freeboard data in Level 2 and 3 products. The sea ice thickness data are open and available vis the CCI Data Portal. The links are:
http://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/5b6033bfb7f241e89132a83fdc3d5364
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