Blog from February, 2025

SMOS L3 v3.3 data production stopped 2025-02-03
Lars Kaleschke posted on Feb 06, 2025

Due to a downtime of JMA's JRA-3Q data server, production of the SMOS L3 sea ice thickness data v3.3 has been suspended since 3 February 2025. We use the JRA-3Q as auxiliary data for the SMOS L3 sea ice thickness product version v3.3 and an ERA5-derived climatology for the product version v3.4. Therefore, version v3.4 is not affected and will be produced normally. The higher-level merged L4 sea ice thickness product v206 is accordingly affected, while the version v300 is not affected.