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ESA Sea Ice Climate Change Initiative (Sea_Ice_cci): Northern hemisphere sea ice thickness from the Envisat satellite on a monthly grid (L3C), 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: 69 Files | 164MB
  Citations: 7
Abstract

This dataset provides a Climate Data Record of Sea Ice Thickness for the northern 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 grid for the period October 2002 to March 2012. Data is only available for the NH winter months, October - April.

Citable as:  Hendricks, S.; Paul, S.; Rinne, E. (2018): ESA Sea Ice Climate Change Initiative (Sea_Ice_cci): Northern hemisphere sea ice thickness from the Envisat satellite on a monthly grid (L3C), v2.0. Centre for Environmental Data Analysis, date of citation. doi:10.5285/f4c34f4f0f1d4d0da06d771f6972f180. https://dx.doi.org/10.5285/f4c34f4f0f1d4d0da06d771f6972f180
Abbreviation: Not defined
Keywords: Sea Ice, ESA, CCI, Arctic

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: 7

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.

Belter, H. J., Krumpen, T., Hendricks, S., Hoelemann, J., Janout, M. A., Ricker, R., & Haas, C. (2020). Satellite-based sea ice thickness changes in the Laptev Sea from 2002 to 2017: comparison to mooring observations. The Cryosphere, 14(7), 2189–2203. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2189-2020
Bethke, I., Wang, Y., Counillon, F., Keenlyside, N., Kimmritz, M., Fransner, F., Samuelsen, A., Langehaug, H., Svendsen, L., Chiu, P.-G., Passos, L., Bentsen, M., Guo, C., Gupta, A., Tjiputra, J., Kirkevåg, A., Olivié, D., Seland, Ø., Solsvik Vågane, J., … Eldevik, T. (2021). NorCPM1 and its contribution to CMIP6 DCPP. Geoscientific Model Development, 14(11), 7073–7116. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-7073-2021
Liang, X., Li, X., Bi, H., Losch, M., Gao, Y., Zhao, F., Tian, Z., & Liu, C. (2022). A Comparison of Factors That Led to the Extreme Sea Ice Minima in the Twenty-First Century in the Arctic Ocean. Journal of Climate, 35(4), 1249–1265. https://doi.org/10.1175/jcli-d-21-0199.1
Mallett, R. D. C., Stroeve, J. C., Tsamados, M., Landy, J. C., Willatt, R., Nandan, V., & Liston, G. E. (2021). Faster decline and higher variability in the sea ice thickness of the marginal Arctic seas when accounting for dynamic snow cover. The Cryosphere, 15(5), 2429–2450. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-2429-2021
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
Sumata, H., de Steur, L., Gerland, S., Divine, D. V., & Pavlova, O. (2022). Unprecedented decline of Arctic sea ice outflow in 2018. Nature Communications, 13(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29470-7
Xiu, Y., Min, C., Xie, J., Mu, L., Han, B., & Yang, Q. (2021). Evaluation of sea-ice thickness reanalysis data from the coupled ocean-sea-ice data assimilation system TOPAZ4. Journal of Glaciology, 67(262), 353–365. https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2020.110

Process overview

This dataset was generated by a combination of instruments deployed on platforms and computations as detailed below.
  • 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
  • standard_name: sea_ice_area_fraction
  • long_name: sea ice contration
  • units: percent
  • var_id: sea_ice_concentration
  • names: sea_ice_area_fraction, sea ice contration
  • standard_name: sea_ice_thickness status_flag
  • long_name: status flag for the sea ice thickness retrieval
  • var_id: status_flag
  • names: sea_ice_thickness status_flag, status flag for the sea ice thickness retrieval
  • units: m
  • standard_name: sea_ice_thickness
  • long_name: thickness of the sea ice layer
  • var_id: sea_ice_thickness
  • 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
  • var_id: sea_ice_thickness_uncertainty
  • long_name: uncertainty of the sea ice layer thickness
  • names: uncertainty of the sea ice layer thickness
  • standard_name: projection_x_coordinate
  • long_name: x coordinate of projection (eastings)
  • var_id: xc
  • units: km
  • names: projection_x_coordinate, x coordinate of projection (eastings)
  • long_name: y coordinate of projection (eastings)
  • standard_name: projection_y_coordinate
  • var_id: yc
  • units: km
  • names: projection_y_coordinate, y coordinate of projection (eastings)

Co-ordinate Variables

  • standard_name: latitude
  • long_name: latitude of grid cell center
  • var_id: lat
  • units: degrees_north
  • names: latitude, latitude of grid cell center
  • var_id: lon
  • units: degrees_east
  • standard_name: longitude
  • long_name: longitude of grid cell center
  • names: longitude, longitude of grid cell center
  • long_name: reference time of product
  • standard_name: time
  • var_id: time
  • names: time, reference time of product
Coverage
Temporal Range
Start time:
2002-09-30T23:00:00
End time:
2012-03-31T22:59:59
Geographic Extent

 
90.0000°
  
-180.0000°
  
180.0000°
 
16.0000°
  
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