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/
Acknowledgements
Cryosat-2 Level-1 data is courtesy of the European Space Agency
ESA CryoSat website
ESA CryoSat-2 Wiki
Sea ice concentration and type data is courtesy of the Ocean and Sea Ice Satellite Application Facility (OSI-SAF)
Global mean sea surface products (DTU15/DTU18) is courtesy of the Danish National Space Institute (DTU Space)
Snow depth from AMSR2 is courtesy of the Institute for Environmental Physics of the University Bremen