ESA Sea Ice Climate Change Initiative (Sea_Ice_cci): Southern hemisphere sea ice thickness from the Envisat satellite on a monthly grid (L3C), v2.0
This dataset provides a Climate Data Record of Sea Ice Thickness for the southern hemisphere polar region, derived from the RA-2 (Radar Altimeter -2) instrument on the Envisat satellite at Level 3C (L3C). This product was generated in the context of the ESA Climate Change Initiative Programme (ESA CCI) by the Sea Ice CCI (Sea_Ice_cci) project.
It provides monthly gridded sea ice thickness data on a Lambeth Azimuthal Equal Area Projection for the period October 2002 to March 2012. Note, the southern hemisphere sea ice thickness dataset is an experimental climate data record, as the algorithm does not properly considers the impact of the complex snow morphology in the freeboard retrieval. Sea ice thickness is provided for all months but needs to be considered biased high in areas with high snow depth and during the southern summer months. Please consult the Product User Guide (PUG) for more information.
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Identification info
- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2018-05-25T11:03:15
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2018-05-25T11:03:15
- Identifier
- Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / b1f1ac03077b4aa784c5a413a2210bf5
- Identifier
- alternative.identifier / esacci.SEAICE.mon.L3C.SITHICK.RA-2.Envisat.SH50KMEASE2.2-0.r1.v20180706
- Identifier
- doi / http://dx.doi.org/10.5285/b1f1ac03077b4aa784c5a413a2210bf5
- Maintenance and update frequency
- notPlanned
- Update scope
- dataset
- Keywords
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- Level 3
- Envisat
- sea ice
- sea ice thickness
- RA-2
- Level 3C
- Radar Altimeter 2
- sea ice thickness
- sea ice
- month
- Envisat
- Environmental Satellite
- Level 3
- Level 3C
- RA-2
- Sea Ice
- ESA
- CCI
- Antarctic
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ()
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- orthoimagery
- Limitations on Public Access
- otherRestrictions
- Other constraints
- Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.
- Use constraints
- otherRestrictions
- Spatial representation type
- grid
- Topic category
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- Imagery base maps earth cover
![](https://data-search.nerc.ac.uk/geonetwork/srv/api/regions/geom.png?geomsrs=EPSG:4326&geom=POLYGON((180%20-90,180%20-16,-180%20-16,-180%20-90,180%20-90)))
- Begin date
- 2002-06-10T23:00:00
- End date
- 2012-03-31T22:59:59
- Code
- WGS 84
Distribution Information
- Data format
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Data are in NetCDF format
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Data are in NetCDF format
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- Resource Locator
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CEDA Data Catalogue Page
Detail and access information for the resource
- Resource Locator
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DOWNLOAD
Download Data
- Resource Locator
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Product User Guide
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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ESA Climate Change Initiative website
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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ESA CCI Sea Ice project website
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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CEDA Data Catalogue Page
Detail and access information for the resource
- Resource Locator
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DOWNLOAD
Download Data
- Resource Locator
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Product User Guide
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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ESA Climate Change Initiative website
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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ESA CCI Sea Ice project website
No further details.
- Quality Scope
- dataset
Report
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
- Data were processed by the ESA CCI Sea Ice project team and were supplied to CEDA in the context of the ESA CCI Open Data Portal Project
Metadata
- File identifier
- b1f1ac03077b4aa784c5a413a2210bf5 XML
- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Character set
- 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646
- Parent identifier
- ESA Sea Ice Climate Change Initiative (Sea Ice CCI) Dataset Collection 5e789087d4e847308a39b3fe5b26e281
- Resource type
- dataset
- Metadata Date
- 2024-09-01T23:44:35
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3