Changelog of the CryoSat-2 sea ice algorithm. |
Version 2.1 of the AWI CryoSat-2 sea ice product was introduced with the start of 2018/2019 Arctic winter season in October 2018. A number of changes where introduced, mainly in the form of updates and improvements of auxiliary data and an improved computation of uncertainties of gridded data. All changes are detailed here:
Data download location and filenaming also has changes, see Access Data Products and Data Format Documentation.
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The mean sea surface data source for the freeboard estimation has been updated from DTU15 to DTU18 (1 minute grid) of the Danish National Space Center (DTU).
The changes of DTU18 in the Arctic Ocean compared to the earlier version are summarized in the presentation:
Version 2.1 also introduced a number of minor changes and additions:
uncertainty
to sea_ice_thickness_uncertainty
. (Please also see the change of Level-3 uncertainties outlined above).