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ESA Sea Ice Climate Change Initiative (Sea_Ice_cci): Southern hemisphere sea ice thickness from Envisat on the satellite swath (L2P), v2.0

Update Frequency: Not Planned
Latest Data Update: 2018-05-08
Status: Completed
Online Status: ONLINE
Publication State: Citable
Publication Date: 2018-05-25
Download Stats: last 12 months
Dataset Size: 3.54K Files | 2GB
  Citations: 1
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Abstract

This dataset provides a Climate Data Record of Sea Ice Thickness for the southern hemisphere polar region, derived from the RA-2 (Radar Altimeter -2) instrument on the Envisat satellite. This product was generated in the context of the ESA Climate Change Initiative Programme (ESA CCI) by the Sea Ice CCI (Sea_Ice_cci) project.

It provides daily sea ice thickness data on the satellite measurement grid (Level 2P) at the full sensor resolution for the period October 2002 to March 2012. Note, the southern hemisphere sea ice thickness dataset is an experimental climate data record, as the algorithm does not properly considers the impact of the complex snow morphology in the freeboard retrieval. Sea ice thickness is provided for all months but needs to be considered biased high in areas with high snow depth and during the southern summer months. Please consult the Product User Guide (PUG) for more information.

Citable as:  Hendricks, S.; Paul, S.; Rinne, E. (2018): ESA Sea Ice Climate Change Initiative (Sea_Ice_cci): Southern hemisphere sea ice thickness from Envisat on the satellite swath (L2P), v2.0. Centre for Environmental Data Analysis, date of citation. doi:10.5285/550d938da3184d0ca44a06a4c0c14ffa. https://dx.doi.org/10.5285/550d938da3184d0ca44a06a4c0c14ffa
Abbreviation: Not defined
Keywords: Sea Ice, ESA, CCI, Antarctic

Details

Previous Info:
No news update for this record
Previously used record identifiers:
No related previous identifiers.
Access rules:
Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.
Use of these data is covered by the following licence: http://licences.ceda.ac.uk/image/data_access_condition/esacci_seaice_terms_and_conditions.pdf. When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.
Data lineage:

Data were processed by the ESA CCI Sea Ice project team and were supplied to CEDA in the context of the ESA CCI Open Data Portal Project
Data Quality:
CCI data format checked
File Format:
Data are in NetCDF format

Related Documents

 ESA Climate Change Initiative website
 ESA CCI Sea Ice project website
 Product User Guide

Citations: 1

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Paul, S., Hendricks, S., Ricker, R., Kern, S., & Rinne, E. (2018). Empirical parametrization of Envisat freeboard retrieval of Arctic and Antarctic sea ice based on CryoSat-2: progress in the ESA Climate Change Initiative. The Cryosphere, 12(7), 2437–2460. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-2437-2018

Process overview

This dataset was generated by a combination of instruments deployed on platforms and computations as detailed below.
  • units: m
  • var_id: radar_freeboard_uncertainty
  • long_name: algorithm uncertainty (error propagation) of the radar freeboard retrieval
  • names: algorithm uncertainty (error propagation) of the radar freeboard retrieval
  • units: m
  • var_id: radar_freeboard
  • long_name: elevation of retracked point above instantaneous sea surface height
  • names: elevation of retracked point above instantaneous sea surface height
  • units: m
  • standard_name: sea_ice_freeboard
  • var_id: freeboard
  • long_name: freeboard of the sea ice layer
  • names: sea_ice_freeboard, freeboard of the sea ice layer
  • units: m
  • long_name: freeboard uncertainty
  • var_id: freeboard_uncertainty
  • standard_name: sea_ice_freeboard standard_error
  • names: freeboard uncertainty, sea_ice_freeboard standard_error
  • units: m
  • standard_name: sea_ice_thickness
  • var_id: sea_ice_thickness
  • long_name: thickness of the sea ice layer
  • names: sea_ice_thickness, thickness of the sea ice layer
  • units: m
  • long_name: uncertainty of the sea ice layer thickness
  • var_id: sea_ice_thickness_uncertainty
  • standard_name: sea_ice_thickness standard_error
  • names: uncertainty of the sea ice layer thickness, sea_ice_thickness standard_error
  • var_id: time
  • long_name: utc timestamp
  • names: utc timestamp

Co-ordinate Variables

  • units: degrees_north
  • standard_name: latitude
  • var_id: lat
  • long_name: latitude of satellite nadir measurement point
  • names: latitude, latitude of satellite nadir measurement point
  • units: degrees_east
  • standard_name: longitude
  • var_id: lon
  • long_name: longitude of satellite nadir measurement point
  • names: longitude, longitude of satellite nadir measurement point
Coverage
Temporal Range
Start time:
2002-06-10T23:00:00
End time:
2012-03-31T22:59:59
Geographic Extent

 
-50.0000°
  
-180.0000°
  
180.0000°
 
-81.4500°
  
Related parties
Authors (3)
Publishers (1)