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AWI CryoSat-2 Sea Ice Product

The Sea Ice Radar Altimetry (SIRAL)

is a

project

at

of the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI)

that uses data from

is based on satellite radar altimetry data to investigate the sea ice mass balance and related processes to understand Arctic Change. The name of the project is also a homage to the radar altimeter onboard CryoSat-2, the Synthetic and Interferometric Radar Altimeter (SIRAL) which has been a game changer for sea-ice thickness information from satellite radar altimetry. The thickness information obtained from radar altimetry adds the third dimension to the sea ice concentration data record and is an essential parameter for climate research and numerical weather prediction.

This wiki is dedicated to the documentation of sea ice thickness data sets from radar altimeter data produced at the Alfred Wegener Institute. Please also check the blog for news and updates as well as the CS2SMOS wiki for information on merged CryoSat-2/SMOS sea ice thickness data.


Note
This page will be updated shortly with documentation of new processor version 2.6 (since October 2023).


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Download

ftp://ftp.awi.de/sea_ice/product/cryosat2/v2p6

(ftp client required)

Documentation

Hendricks, S., & Paul, S. (2023). Product User Guide & Algorithm Specification - AWI CryoSat-2 Sea Ice Thickness (version 2.6), Issued by Zenodo (v2.6). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10044554

Citation

Hendricks, S., & Paul, S. (2023). Product User Guide & Algorithm Specification - AWI CryoSat-2 Sea Ice Thickness (version 2.6), Issued by Zenodo (v2.6). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10044554

Whats New

What's new in version 2.6



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A full documentation of the AWI CryoSat-2 Sea Ice Product is given in the Product User Guide & Algorithm Specification.

Principles of Sea Ice Radar Altimetry

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Please apply for access via email

SIRAL Blog

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data is courtesy of the European Space Agency
ESA CryoSat website
ESA CryoSat-2 Wiki


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Sea ice concentration and type data is courtesy of the Ocean and Sea Ice Satellite Application Facility (OSI-SAF)


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Global mean sea surface products (DTU21) is courtesy of the Danish National Space Institute (DTU Space)


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Snow depth from AMSR2 is courtesy of the Institute for Environmental Physics of the University Bremen


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