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ESA Sea Ice Climate Change Initiative (Sea_Ice_cci): Sea Ice Concentration Climate Data Record from the AMSR-E and AMSR-2 instruments at 50 km grid spacing, version 2.0

Update Frequency: Not Planned
Latest Data Update: 2017-02-21
Status: Superseded
Online Status: ONLINE
Publication State: Citable
Publication Date: 2017-02-28
DOI Publication Date: 2017-02-28
Download Stats: last 12 months
Dataset Size: 9.28K Files | 49GB
  Citations: 1
This dataset has been superseded. See Latest Version here
Abstract

The dataset provides a Climate Data Record of Sea Ice Concentration (SIC) for the polar regions, derived from medium resolution passive microwave satellite data (AMSR-E and AMSR-2). It is processed with an algorithm using coarse resolution (6 GHz and 37 GHz) imaging channels, and has been gridded at 50km grid spacing.

This product was generated in the context of the ESA Climate Change Initiative Programme (ESA CCI) by the Sea_Ice_CCI project. The EUMETSAT OSI SAF contributed with access and re-use of part of its processing software and facilities.

A SIC CDR at 25km grid spacing is also available (doi: 10.5285/c61bfe88-873b-44d8-9b0e-6a0ee884ad95) and a 12.5km product is in preparation.

Citable as:  Toudal Pedersen, L.; Dybkjær, G.; Eastwood, S.; Heygster, G.; Ivanova, N.; Kern, S.; Lavergne, T.; Saldo, R.; Sandven, S.; Sørensen, A.; Tonboe, R.T. (2017): ESA Sea Ice Climate Change Initiative (Sea_Ice_cci): Sea Ice Concentration Climate Data Record from the AMSR-E and AMSR-2 instruments at 50 km grid spacing, version 2.0. Centre for Environmental Data Analysis, 28 February 2017. doi:10.5285/70f611b0-ba82-48e6-9190-a62cf9f925f2. https://dx.doi.org/10.5285/70f611b0-ba82-48e6-9190-a62cf9f925f2
Abbreviation: Not defined
Keywords: Sea Ice, ESA, CCI, Arctic, Antarctic

Details

Previous Info:

2017-10-06 Please note, a newer version of this data product (v2.1) is now available at http://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/5f75fcb0c58740d99… Show More 2017-10-06 Please note, a newer version of this data product (v2.1) is now available at http://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/5f75fcb0c58740d99b07953797bc041e Show Less

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.

Contribution of the EUMETSAT OSI SAF to the production of this dataset is acknowledged. EUMETSAT OSI SAF provided access and allowed re-use of its SIC reprocessing software and data hosting facilities. The reprocessing chain was further updated with the new algorithms and knowledge from the ESA CCI Sea Ice project.

Data were supplied to CEDA in the context of the ESA CCI Open Data Portal Project
File Format:
Data are in NetCDF format

Related Documents

 Product User Guide
 Ivanova, N., et al., Inter-comparison and evaluation of sea ice algorithms: towards further identification of challenges and optimal approach using passive microwave observations, The Cryosphere, 9, 1797-1817, 2015, doi: 10.5194/tc-9-1797-2015.
 ESA CCI Sea Ice project website
 ESA Climate Change Initiative website

Citations: 1

The following citations have been automatically harvested from external sources associated with this resource where DOI tracking is possible. As such some citations may be missing from this list whilst others may not be accurate. Please contact the helpdesk to raise any issues to help refine these citation trackings.

Shalina, E. V., Johannessen, O. M., & Sandven, S. (2019). Changes in Arctic Sea Ice Cover in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries. Sea Ice in the Arctic, 93–166. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21301-5_4

Process overview

This dataset was generated by instruments deployed on platforms as listed below.
Output Description

None
  • var_id: Lambert_Azimuthal_Grid
  • units: %
  • long_name: algorithm uncertainty (one standard deviation) of concentration of sea ice
  • var_id: algorithm_standard_error
  • units: %
  • long_name: smearing uncertainty (one standard deviation) of concentration of sea ice
  • var_id: smearing_standard_error
  • standard_name: sea_ice_area_fraction status_flag
  • var_id: status_flag
  • long_name: status flag bit array for sea ice concentration retrievals
  • var_id: time_bnds
  • units: km
  • standard_name: projection_x_coordinate
  • long_name: x coordinate of projection (eastings)
  • var_id: xc
  • units: km
  • standard_name: projection_y_coordinate
  • long_name: y coordinate of projection (northings)
  • var_id: yc

Co-ordinate Variables

  • units: degrees_north
  • standard_name: latitude
  • var_id: lat
  • long_name: latitude coordinate
  • units: degrees_east
  • standard_name: longitude
  • var_id: lon
  • long_name: longitude coordinate
  • standard_name: time
  • var_id: time
  • long_name: reference time of product
Coverage
Temporal Range
Start time:
2002-05-31T23:00:00
End time:
2015-12-31T23:59:59
Geographic Extent

 
90.0000°
  
-180.0000°
  
180.0000°
 
-90.0000°
  
Related parties
Authors (11)
Publishers (1)