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ESA Sea Ice Climate Change Initiative (Sea Ice CCI): Southern Hemisphere Sea Ice Concentration (SIC) from the AMSR-E instrument, Version 1.11
This data set is part of the ESA Sea Ice Climate Change Initiative (CCI) project. The dataset provides sea ice concentration for the Antarctic region, derived from the AMSR-E satellite instrument.
It consists of daily gridded SIC fields based on Passive Microwave Radiometer measurements from the AMSR-E instrument with a 25km grid spacing, along with the total standard error (uncertainty) and quality control flags. It has been built upon the algorithms and processing software originally developed at the EUMETSAT OSI SAF for their SIC dataset.
Please note, in the sea ice concentration data set - on purpose - no weather filter has been applied to eliminate weather-induced spurious ice in the open ocean along the ice edge in order to avoid discarding regions with a real sea ice cover. Users are advised to read the product user guide and the publication by Ivanova et al. [2015] (see documentation section).
A second sea ice dataset has also been produced from the SSM/I instrument, and these should be regarded as individual datasets and not combined without further investigations about the compatibility.
The project team warns potential users that the AMSR-E SIC time-series is less mature than the SSM/I one, and that the former should be used with extra care, possibly after visual inspection or comparison to other data sources (such as the SSM/I time series during the overlap period)
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- Date (Publication)
- 2016-03-08T16:46:22
- Date (Creation)
- 2016-03-08T16:46:22
- Identifier
- Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / a8fb73c6610a46128181053b3c1c7333
- Maintenance and update frequency
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- dataset Dataset
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- Norwegian Meteorological Institute
- AMSRE
- Aqua
- Level 4
- day
- sea ice
- sea ice concentration
- AMSR
- EOS
- ESA
- CCI
- Antarctic
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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- orthoimagery
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- Other constraints
- Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.
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- Spatial representation type
- grid Grid
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
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- Imagery base maps earth cover
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- Begin date
- 2002-06-18T23:00:00
- End date
- 2011-10-03T22:59:59
- Unique resource identifier
- WGS 84
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Data are in NetCDF format
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Data are in NetCDF format
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- OnLine resource
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CEDA Data Catalogue Page
Detail and access information for the resource
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Ivanova, N., et al., Inter-comparison and evaluation of sea ice algorithms: towards further identification of challenges and optimal approach using passive microwave observations, The Cryosphere, 9, 1797-1817, 2015, doi: 10.5194/tc-9-1797-2015.
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Product User Guide
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ESA CCI Sea Ice project website
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ESA Climate Change Initiative website
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- dataset Dataset
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
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Data were processed by the ESA CCI Sea Ice project team.
Contribution of the EUMETSAT OSI SAF to the production of this dataset is acknowledged. EUMETSAT OSI SAF provided access and allowed re-use of its SIC reprocessing software and data hosting facilities. The reprocessing chain was further updated with the new algorithms and knowledge from the ESA CCI Sea Ice project.
Data was supplied to CEDA in the context of the ESA CCI Open Data Portal Project
- File identifier
- a8fb73c6610a46128181053b3c1c7333 XML
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Character set
- 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646 UTF8
- Parent identifier
- ESA Sea Ice Climate Change Initiative (Sea Ice CCI) Dataset Collection 5e789087d4e847308a39b3fe5b26e281
- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-11-15T03:06:40
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
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