Blog from October, 2024

Operational processing and dissemination of near-real time L4 SMOS sea ice thickness product (v206) has been resumed for the winter season of 2024/25 since 15 October 2024. 

A new version v300 will soon be offered in parallel to v206 for a transitional period. Watch this space for updates. 

Changes of Note for version 300

  • Addition of radar altimeter data from Sentinel-3A (since 2016-10) and Sentinel-3B (since 2018-10)
  • Update to new SMOS sea ice thickness version 3.4
  • Improved spatial resolution (12.5 km instead of 25 km)
  • The Level-4 product will be generated for the southern hemisphere between mid-April and mid-October


Operational processing and dissemination of L3 SMOS sea ice thickness product (v3.3) has been resumed for the winter season of 2024/25 since 15 October 2024. 

A new version v3.4 will soon be offered in parallel for a transitional period. Watch this space.