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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
https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/a8fb73c6610a46128181053b3c1c7333
Identifier
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / a8fb73c6610a46128181053b3c1c7333
Author
  Unavailable - Toudal Pedersen, Leif ( author )
Author
  Unavailable - Dybkjær, Gorm ( author )
Author
  Unavailable - Heygster, Georg ( author )
Author
  Unavailable - Ivanova, Natalia ( author )
Author
  Unavailable - Kern, Stefan ( author )
Author
  Unavailable - Lavergne, Thomas ( author )
Author
  Unavailable - Rösel, Anja ( author )
Author
  Unavailable - Saldo, Roberto ( author )
Author
  Unavailable - Sandven, Stein ( author )
Author
  Unavailable - Sørensen, Atle ( author )
Author
  Unavailable - Tonboe, Rasmus T. ( author )
Custodian
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - custodian
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
Distributor
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - distributor
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
pointofContact
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - point_of_contact
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
Publisher
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - publisher
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
Maintenance and update frequency
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dataset Dataset
Keywords
  • Norwegian Meteorological Institute
  • AMSRE
  • Aqua
  • Level 4
  • day
  • sea ice
  • sea ice concentration
  • AMSR
  • EOS
  • ESA
  • CCI
  • Antarctic
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Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.
Use constraints
otherRestrictions Other restrictions
Other constraints
Under the following licence https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/licences/specific_licences/esacci_seaice_terms_and_conditions.pdf, appropriate use of these data may fall under any use. This message is intended as guidance, always read the full licence. When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.
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Topic category
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Begin date
2002-06-18T23:00:00
End date
2011-10-03T22:59:59
Unique resource identifier
WGS 84
Distribution format
  • Data are in NetCDF format ()

Distributor
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - Data Center Contact
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
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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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Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Statement

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

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Metadata language
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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
Point of contact
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
 
 

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