Near-real-time Arctic sea ice thickness and volume from CryoSat-2

Tilling, Rachel L.; Ridout, Andy; Shepherd, Andrew

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-2003-2016

Articles | Volume 10, issue 5

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-2003-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-2003-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 10, issue 5

Research article

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07 Sep 2016

Research article |

| 07 Sep 2016

Near-real-time Arctic sea ice thickness and volume from CryoSat-2

Rachel L. Tilling, Andy Ridout, and Andrew Shepherd

Data sets

NRT Arctic sea ice thickness and volume data CPOM UCL http://www.cpom.ucl.ac.uk/csopr/seaice.html

NRT DMSP SSMIS daily Polar gridded sea ice concentration data NSIDC ftp://sidads.colorado.edu/pub/DATASETS/nsidc0081_nrt_nasateam_seaice/

NRT sea ice type maps OSI SAF http://osisaf.met.no/p/ice/#type

Short summary

We use CryoSat-2 satellite data to provide the first near-real-time (NRT) measurements of absolute sea ice thickness across the entire Northern Hemisphere. We analyse our NRT sea-ice-thickness data for one sea ice growth season, from October 2014 to April 2015. Over that time period a NRT thickness measurement was delivered, on average, within 14, 7 and 6 km of each location in the Arctic every 2, 14 and 28 days respectively.