SMOS L3 Sea Ice Thickness

Name: SMOS L3 Sea Ice Thickness
Creator: European Space Agency
License: https://earth.esa.int/eogateway/documents/20142/1564626/Terms-and-Conditions-for-the-use-of-ESA-Data.pdf

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SMOS L3 Sea Ice Thickness

SMOS L3 Sea Ice Thickness

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Collection Description

The SMOS Level 3 Sea Ice Thickness product, in NetCDF format, provides daily estimations of SMOS-retrieved sea ice thickness (and its uncertainty) at the edge of the Arctic Ocean during the October-April (winter) season, from year 2010 onwards.

The sea ice thickness is retrieved from the SMOS L1C product, up to a depth of approximately 0.5-1 m, depending on the ice temperature and salinity. Daily maps, projected on polar stereographic grid of 12.5 km, are generated by the Alfred Wegener Institut (AWI).

This product is complementary with sea ice thickness measurements from ESA's CryoSat and Copernicus Sentinel-3 missions.

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DATA SET SPECIFICATIONS

Digital Object Identifier (DOI):

European Space Agency, 2023, SMOS L3 Sea Ice Thickness, Version 3.3.https://doi.org/10.57780/sm1-5ebe10b

Spatial coverage:

90 N, 90 S, 180 W, 180 E

Temporal coverage:

2010-10-15 - present

Date of launch:

2009-11-02

Operators:

ESA

Mission status:

onGoing

Orbit height:

758 km

Orbit type:

Sun-synchronous

Swath width:

1000 km

Current Processor Version:

3.3

PROCESSING LEVEL

level 3

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European Space Agency, 2023, SMOS L3 Sea Ice Thickness, Version 3.3.

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