SIRAL Blog
The production of sea ice thickness from CryoSat-2 near real-time data has been resumed for the winter season 2023/24. Documentation of the new version 2.6 will be made available shortly on this page.
CryoSat-2-AWI-v2p6-nrt-20231001_20231003.pngFigure: CryoSat-2 NRT data from the first 3 days of October 2023
Operational production of CrypSat-2 near real time data has been completed for the 2022/23 Arctic winter season. Production will resume in October 2023.
sea_ice_thickness_awi-cryosat2-nrt-nh_202304.pngFinal Arctic sea ice thickness grid (April 2023) from CryoSat-2 nea real-time data
Sea Ice Concentration data from OSI-SAF is (OSI-401-b) is currently not available due to missing DMSP SSMIS Level-1 input data:
https://osi-saf.eumetsat.int/community/list-of-service-messages https://osi-saf.eumetsat.int/community/list-of-service-messages
Daily sea ice concentration data from OSI-401-b is critical input to the CryoSat-2 sea ice product and data from the following dates is missing:
CryoSat-2 l2p
The most recent version of the AWI CryoSat-2 sea ice product has been published on the AWI ftp:
ftp://ftp.awi.de/sea_ice/product/cryosat2/v2p5/nh/ ftp://ftp.awi.de/sea_ice/product/cryosat2/v2p5/nh/
The data release includes a full mission reprocessing from November 2010 and April 2022 and operational processing (including near real-time) from October 2022 onwards.
Reprocessed (33 days delay)
Near-real time (2 days delay)
Daily Trajectory
l2p_trajectory ftp://ftp.awi.…
Production of the near real-time AWI CryoSat-2 sea ice thickness product will start shortly.
Preliminary list of updates compared in v2.5:
New surface type classification (sea ice / lead / open ocean discrimination). The new surface type classification increases the number of waveforms for sea ice freeboard/thickness evaluation.
New flag indicating surface wave influence in the marginal ice zone.…