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SMOS L3 Sea Ice Thickness

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Description

The SMOS Level 3 Sea Ice Thickness product, in NetCDF format, provides daily estimations of SMOS-retrieved sea ice thickness (and its uncertainty) at the edge of the Arctic Ocean during the October-April (winter) season, from year 2010 onwards.

The sea ice thickness is retrieved from the SMOS L1C product, up to a depth of approximately 0.5-1 m, depending on the ice temperature and salinity. Daily maps, projected on polar stereographic grid of 12.5 km, are generated by the Alfred Wegener Institut (AWI).

This product is complementary with sea ice thickness measurements from ESA's CryoSat and Copernicus Sentinel-3 missions.

Details

DATA SET SPECIFICATIONS

Spatial coverage:
90 N, -90 S, -180 W, 180 E
Temporal coverage:
2010-10-15 - present
Date of launch:
2009-11-02
Operators:
ESA
Mission status:
onGoing
Orbit height:
758 km
Orbit type:
Sun-synchronous
Swath width:
1000 km
Current Processor Version:
3.3

PROCESSING LEVEL

level 3

APPLICABLE TERMS & CONDITIONS

Utilisation of this data is subject to ESA's Earth Observation Terms and Conditions
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Product Specifications

SMOS Sea Ice Thickness at the Alfred Wegener Institut (AWI)

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SMOS Sea Ice Thickness Products Description Document (PDD)

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Release Note

Read-me-first note for the release of SMOS Sea Ice Thickness

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Algorithm Theoretical Baseline Document

SMOS L3 Sea Ice Thickness Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document (ATBD)

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