Arctic sea ice freeboard and thickness from data of the European radar altimeter CryoSat-2 is generated by the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) in the winter month (October-April). The resulting data products are publicly available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license. Please read the documentation below for data access and formats.
Sea ice thickness information from CryoSat-2 is available from two data streams
near-real time (nrt) data with a delay of 2 days
reprocessed data with a delay of 33 days
How to cite
Hendricks, S. and Ricker, R. (2020): Product User Guide & Algorithm Specification: AWI CryoSat-2 Sea Ice Thickness (version 2.3), https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/53331/