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ESA Sea Ice Climate Change Initiative (Sea_Ice_cci): Sea Ice Concentration Climate Data Record from the AMSR-E and AMSR-2 instruments at 25km grid spacing, version 2.0
The dataset provides a Climate Data Record of Sea Ice Concentration (SIC) for the polar regions, derived from medium resolution passive microwave satellite data (AMSR-E and AMSR-2). It is processed with an algorithm using medium resolution (19 GHz and 37 GHz) imaging channels, and has been gridded at 25km grid spacing.
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. The EUMETSAT OSI SAF contributed with access and re-use of part of its processing software and facilities.
A SIC CDR at 50 km grid spacing is also available (doi:10.5285/70f611b0-ba82-48e6-9190-a62cf9f925f2) and a 12.5km product is in preparation.
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- Date (Publication)
- 2017-02-28T17:08:14
- Date (Creation)
- 2017-02-28T17:08:14
- Identifier
- Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / bc3f8a3cf94c4d0180a60b7e2bfd9c5b
- Identifier
- doi / http://dx.doi.org/10.5285/c61bfe88-873b-44d8-9b0e-6a0ee884ad95
- Maintenance and update frequency
- notPlanned Not planned
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- dataset Dataset
- Keywords
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- sea ice
- Sea Ice
- ESA
- CCI
- Arctic
- Antarctic
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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- orthoimagery
- Access constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.
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- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Spatial representation type
- grid Grid
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
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- Imagery base maps earth cover
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- Begin date
- 2002-05-31T23:00:00
- End date
- 2015-12-31T23:59:59
- Unique resource identifier
- WGS 84
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Data are in NetCDF
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Data are in NetCDF
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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 Climate Change Initiative website
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ESA CCI Sea Ice project 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 were supplied to CEDA in the context of the ESA CCI Open Data Portal Project
- File identifier
- bc3f8a3cf94c4d0180a60b7e2bfd9c5b 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
- 2025-11-15T03:10:59
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
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