CryoSat-2 has now finished its 9th winter from October to April of Arctic sea ice thickness observations. No sea-ice thickness production is now paused for the month of May through September since the snow is warming and will soon start to melt. The impact of snow melt on the sea-ice thickness retrieval is poorly understood and the production will resume in October 2019 with the next version of CryoSat-2 data.
In resume,…
The latest results from CryoSat show that the latest extrema in winter sea ice maximum extent are not necessarily accompanied by a lower mean sea ice thickness of the remaining ice. One factor certainly is that sea ice thickness is a product of thermodynamic ice growth and the acummulated dynamic forces throughout the winter. As a first step in the investigation to what extent dynamic forces have played a role in the last winter,…
With monthly mean thickness in April 2018, the 8th Arctic winter season of 2017/2018 is now complete.
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All monthly mean CryoSat-2 Arctic sea ice thickness fields
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All monthly mean CryoSat-2 Arctic sea ice thickness anomaly fields
Arctic sea ice thickness information has been updated with NRT data for April 2018 and reprocessed data for March 2018. Daily, weekly and monthly products are available here: Reprocessed ftp://altim:altim@data.meereisportal.de/altim/sea_ice/product/north/cryosat2/cs2awi-v2.0/, Near-real time ftp://altim:altim@data.meereisportal.de/altim/sea_ice/product/north/cryosat2/cs2awi-v2.0/Latest
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The production of the sea ice thickness climate data record of the ESA Climate Change Initiative http://esa-cci.nersc.no/ (CCI) has been finalized. The files are currently being registered with their respective doi's and official dissimination will commence shortly.…