Version | Date | Comments |
---|---|---|
v3.2 | 15.10.2018 | Official ESA release |
Product Description
Overview
Table 1: Overview of SMOS Product
Parameter | Sea ice thickness |
Spatial covergae | N: 90°, S:50°, E:180°, W:-180° |
Spatial Resolution | 12.5 km x12.5 km |
Temporal Coverage: | since 15. Oct. 2018 |
Temporal Resolution | 1 day |
Data Format(s) | NetCDF |
Platforms | SMOS |
Version | v3.2 |
File naming convention
NetCDF files are named as:
SMOS_Icethickness_v3.2_north_<date>.nc
File Format
Daily mean SMOS sea ice thickness is given in NetCDF v3 format. Global attributes are given in Table 2. The variables are given as grid arrays, see, therefore Table 3.
Table 2: Global attributes from an example NetCDF file.
Attribute | Value |
---|---|
title | |
description | |
summary | |
keywords | |
product_version | |
processing_mode | |
time_of_creation | |
history | |
Conventions | |
spatial_resolution | |
geospatial_lat_min | |
geospatial_lat_max | |
geospatial_lon_min | -180.0 |
geospatial_lon_max | 180.0 |
geospatial_vertical_min | 0.0 |
geospatial_vertical_max | 0.0 |
time_coverage_start | 2018-10-28T00:00:00Z |
time_coverage_end | 2018-10-28T23:59:00Z |
time_coverage_duration | P1D |
time_coverage_resolution | P1D |
platform | SMOS |
project | CS2SMOS PDS: SMOS & CryoSat-2 Sea Ice Data Product Processing and Dissemination Service |
institution | Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz Zentrum für Polar und Meeresforschung (AWI), http://www.awi.de |
creator_name | Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz Zentrum für Polar und Meeresforschung (AWI), http://www.awi.de |
creator_type | institution |
creator_url | |
publisher_email | |
references | |
_CoordSysBuilder | ucar.nc2.dataset.conv.CF1Convention |
Table 3: NetCDF file content.
Variable | Description | Unit | Type | Dimension |
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Grid
Links
ESA Websites:
Visualization of NetCDF data: