The EUMETSAT sea ice concentration climate data record

Tonboe, Rasmus T.; Eastwood, Steinar; Lavergne, Thomas; Sørensen, Atle M.; Rathmann, Nicholas; Dybkjær, Gorm; Pedersen, Leif Toudal; Høyer, Jacob L.; Kern, Stefan

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-2275-2016

Articles | Volume 10, issue 5

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-2275-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-2275-2016

© 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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28 Sep 2016

Research article |

| 28 Sep 2016

The EUMETSAT sea ice concentration climate data record

Rasmus T. Tonboe, Steinar Eastwood, Thomas Lavergne, Atle M. Sørensen, Nicholas Rathmann, Gorm Dybkjær, Leif Toudal Pedersen, Jacob L. Høyer, and Stefan Kern

Data sets

OSI SAF global sea ice concentration data record – OSI-409a R. T. Tonboe, S. Eastwood, T. Lavergne, A. M. Sørensen, N. Rathmann, G. Dybkjær, L. T. Pedersen, J. L. Høyer, and S. Kern https://doi.org/10.15770/EUM_SAF_OSI_0005

Short summary

The EUMETSAT sea ice climate record (ESICR) is based on the Nimbus 7 SMMR (1978–1987), the SSM/I (1987–2009), and the SSMIS (2003–today) microwave radiometer data. It uses a combination of two sea ice concentration algorithms with dynamical tie points, explicit atmospheric correction using numerical weather prediction data for error reduction and it comes with spatially and temporally varying uncertainty estimates describing the residual uncertainties.