Dataset
ESA Sea Ice Climate Change Initiative (Sea_Ice_cci): Southern hemisphere sea ice thickness from the Envisat satellite on a monthly grid (L3C), v2.0
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 at Level 3C (L3C). 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 monthly gridded sea ice thickness data on a Lambeth Azimuthal Equal Area Projection 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.
Details
| Previous Info: |
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No related previous identifiers.
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| 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(s): https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/licences/specific_licences/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
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| File Format: |
Data are in NetCDF format
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Related Documents
| Product User Guide |
| ESA Climate Change Initiative website |
| ESA CCI Sea Ice project website |
Citations: 3
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| Liao, S., Luo, H., Wang, J., Shi, Q., Zhang, J. & Yang, Q. (2022) An evaluation of Antarctic sea-ice thickness from the Global Ice-Ocean Modeling and Assimilation System based on in situ and satellite observations. The Cryosphere 16, 1807–1819. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-1807-2022 https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-1807-2022 |
| 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, 2437–2460. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-2437-2018 https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-2437-2018 |
| Wang, J., Min, C., Ricker, R., Shi, Q., Han, B., Hendricks, S., Wu, R. & Yang, Q. (2022) A comparison between Envisat and ICESat sea ice thickness in the Southern Ocean. The Cryosphere 16, 4473–4490. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-4473-2022 https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-4473-2022 |
Process overview
- var_id: Lambert_Azimuthal_Grid
- units: m
- long_name: elevation of retracked point above instantaneous sea surface height (no snow range corrections)
- var_id: radar_freeboard
- names: elevation of retracked point above instantaneous sea surface height (no snow range corrections)
- units: m
- long_name: elevation of retracked point above instantaneous sea surface height (with snow range corrections)
- standard_name: sea_ice_freeboard
- var_id: freeboard
- names: elevation of retracked point above instantaneous sea surface height (with snow range corrections), sea_ice_freeboard
- units: m
- long_name: freeboard uncertainty
- var_id: freeboard_uncertainty
- names: freeboard uncertainty
- units: percent
- standard_name: sea_ice_area_fraction
- long_name: sea ice contration
- var_id: sea_ice_concentration
- names: sea_ice_area_fraction, sea ice contration
- var_id: status_flag
- long_name: status flag for the sea ice thickness retrieval
- standard_name: sea_ice_thickness status_flag
- names: sea_ice_thickness status_flag, status flag for the sea ice thickness retrieval
- 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
- var_id: time_bnds
- units: m
- long_name: uncertainty of radar freeboard
- var_id: radar_freeboard_uncertainty
- names: uncertainty of radar freeboard
- units: m
- long_name: uncertainty of the sea ice layer thickness
- var_id: sea_ice_thickness_uncertainty
- names: uncertainty of the sea ice layer thickness
- units: km
- standard_name: projection_x_coordinate
- long_name: x coordinate of projection (eastings)
- var_id: xc
- names: projection_x_coordinate, x coordinate of projection (eastings)
- units: km
- standard_name: projection_y_coordinate
- var_id: yc
- long_name: y coordinate of projection (eastings)
- names: projection_y_coordinate, y coordinate of projection (eastings)
Co-ordinate Variables
- units: degrees_north
- standard_name: latitude
- var_id: lat
- long_name: latitude of grid cell center
- names: latitude, latitude of grid cell center
- units: degrees_east
- standard_name: longitude
- var_id: lon
- long_name: longitude of grid cell center
- names: longitude, longitude of grid cell center
- standard_name: time
- var_id: time
- long_name: reference time of product
- names: time, reference time of product
Temporal Range
2002-06-10T23:00:00
2012-03-31T22:59:59
Geographic Extent
-16.0000° |
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-180.0000° |
180.0000° |
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-90.0000° |