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Abstract

The SMOS & CryoSat-2 Sea Ice Data Product Processing and Dissemination Service (CS2SMOS-PDS) ensures the automated and continuous operational generation of the SMOS and the merged CryoSat-2/SMOS Sea Ice Thickness products.


Documentation


Data access

Daily SMOS and weekly merged CryoSat-2/SMOS sea ice thickness data can be downloaded via FTP through a Web browser, a FTP client (e.g. FileZilla) or command line. The access is anomymous.

Get data via AWI FTP

Alternatively, data can be downloaded from the ESA SMOS Dissemination server by ftps and https:

Get data via ESA FTPS and https


Due to melting season, the SMOS and CryoSat-2 data processing and dissemination is stopped between May and September.





How to cite the data

For the merged CryoSat-2/SMOS sea ice thickness data, please

  1. cite:

    Ricker, R., Hendricks, S., Kaleschke, L., Tian-Kunze, X., King, J., and Haas, C.: A weekly Arctic sea-ice thickness data record from merged CryoSat-2 and SMOS satellite data, The Cryosphere, 11, 1607-1623, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-1607-2017, 2017.

  2. include the following phrase into the acknowledgment:

    "The production of the merged CryoSat-SMOS sea ice thickness data was funded by the ESA project SMOS & CryoSat-2 Sea Ice Data Product Processing and Dissemination Service, and data from DATE to DATE were obtained from AWI."

For the SMOS Sea Ice Thickness data, please

  1. cite:

    Tian-Kunze, X. , Kaleschke, L., Maaß, N., Mäkynen, M., Serra, N., Drusch, M., and Krumpen, T. (2014) SMOS-derived thin sea ice thickness: algorithm baseline, product specifications and initial verification, The Cryosphere , 8, 997-1018, doi:10.5194/tc-8-997-2014

  2. include the following phrase into the acknowledgment:

    "The production of the SMOS sea ice thickness data was funded by the ESA project SMOS & CryoSat-2 Sea Ice Data Product Processing and Dissemination Service, and data from DATE to DATE were obtained from AWI."