Important News
Operational News
Changes of algorithm and/or data as well as recent news of any (temporay) data gaps or degraded data:
Blog Posts
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CryoSat-2 Science Server (ftp) back online
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Apr 29, 2022
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Server issues have been resolved
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Mar 16, 2022
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Generation of CryoSat-2/SMOS L4 sea ice thickness data interrupted
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Mar 15, 2022
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CryoSat-2 near-real data service resumes
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Dec 21, 2021
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Outage of ESA CryoSat-2 near real-time science data
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Dec 19, 2021
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CryoSat-2/SMOS Data Processing temporarily halted
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Dec 13, 2021
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CryoSat-2/SMOS level 4 product v204 replaces v203
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Nov 06, 2021
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SMOS level 3 product version v3.3 replaces v3.2
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Oct 18, 2021
Abstract
The SMOS & CryoSat-2 Sea Ice Data Product Processing and Dissemination Service (CS2SMOS-PDS) ensures the automated and continuous operational generation of the SMOS and the merged CryoSat-2/SMOS Sea Ice Thickness products.
Data access
Daily SMOS and weekly merged CryoSat-2/SMOS sea ice thickness data can be downloaded via FTP through a Web browser, a FTP client (e.g. FileZilla) or command line. The access is anomymous.
Alternatively, data can be downloaded from the ESA SMOS Dissemination server by ftps and https:
Info
How to cite the data
For the merged CryoSat-2/SMOS sea ice thickness data, please
cite:
Ricker, R., Hendricks, S., Kaleschke, L., Tian-Kunze, X., King, J., and Haas, C.: A weekly Arctic sea-ice thickness data record from merged CryoSat-2 and SMOS satellite data, The Cryosphere, 11, 1607-1623, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-1607-2017, 2017.
include the following phrase into the acknowledgment:
"The production of the merged CryoSat-SMOS sea ice thickness data was funded by the ESA project SMOS & CryoSat-2 Sea Ice Data Product Processing and Dissemination Service, and data from DATE to DATE were obtained from AWI."
For the SMOS Sea Ice Thickness data, please
cite:
Tian-Kunze, X. , Kaleschke, L., Maaß, N., Mäkynen, M., Serra, N., Drusch, M., and Krumpen, T. (2014) SMOS-derived thin sea ice thickness: algorithm baseline, product specifications and initial verification, The Cryosphere , 8, 997-1018, doi:10.5194/tc-8-997-2014
include the following phrase into the acknowledgment:
"The production of the SMOS sea ice thickness data was funded by the ESA project SMOS & CryoSat-2 Sea Ice Data Product Processing and Dissemination Service, and data from DATE to DATE were obtained from AWI."
Blog
Access to recent CryoSat-2 science data via ftp has resumed (ESA announcement). Most recent CryoSat-2/SMOS reprocessed data is still impacted by data gap and will be reprocessed shortly.
Problems with AWI HPC systems have been solved and missing CryoSat-2/SMOS L4 data have been reprocessed.
The processing of Level 4 merged CryoSat-2/SMOS sea ice thickness data is currently interrupted due to a problem with the AWI HPC system. The processing of Level 3 SMOS sea ice thickness data remains unaffected.
The CryoSat-2 near real-time data service by ESA has resumed. The production of near real-time merged CryoSat-2/SMOS sea ice thickness data continues with a short period of data degradation due to the resulting gap of CryoSat-2 data between Dec 16 and Dec 20, 2021.
The accuracy of the near real-time merged CryoSat-2/SMOS sea ice thickness data is currently degraded due to an outage in the ESA CryoSat-2 NRT service. The production of CryoSat-2/SMOS sea ice thickness data NRT data may be suspended in the next days depending on when CryoSat-2 NRT data will be available again. The production of SMOS sea ice thickness data remains unaffected.
The production of CryoSat-2/SMOS sea ice thickness data is temporarily halted, while the server and software system is evaluated for potential weaknesses following the log4j exploit.
The algorithm of the gridded CryoSat-2/SMOS sea ice thickness data (Level-4) has been updated. The previous version v203 is now replaced by v204.
A full documation of CryoSat-2/SMOS level 4 product version v204 can be found in the CryoSat-SMOS Merged Sea Ice Thickness section.
The algorithm of the gridded SMOS sea ice thickness data (Level-3) has been updated. The previous version v3.2 is now replaced by v3.3. SMOS L3 is distributed directly and input to the CryoSat-2/SMOS L4 sea ice thickness data set.
A full documation of SMOS level 3 product version v3.3 can be found in the SMOS Sea Ice Thickness section.
- SMOS sea-ice thickness
- OSI SAF ice concentration
- OSI SAF sea and ice surface temperature
- OSI SAF sea ice drift
- Merged weekly CryoSat-SMOS sea ice thickness and volume + uncertainties
This is a documentation webpage for the ESA CS2SMOS-PDS Project.
