Dear Colleagues,
The Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling (CPOM) is pleased to report the re-launch of our Arctic sea ice thickness product, after production was paused over summer. This dataset contains near real time (NRT) measurements of Arctic sea ice thickness averaged over the most recent 2, 14, and 28 day periods, and will be updated daily.
Data can be inspected and downloaded for the entire northern hemisphere, for selected oceanographic basins, and at individual locations.
The CPOM NRT sea ice thickness product is derived from CryoSat-2 fast delivery data processed by the European Space Agency, and is an aid for operational activities and services. We have also made historical measurements of autumn and spring sea ice thickness available. Our next step is to release all historical measurements of sea ice thickness.
The products can be accessed at http://www.cpom.ucl.ac.uk/csopr/seaice.html
Please cite the following paper if you are able to make use of the data in any scientific publications:
Laxon S. W., K. A. Giles, A. L. Ridout, D. J. Wingham, R. Willatt, R. Cullen, R. Kwok, A. Schweiger, J. Zhang, C. Haas, S. Hendricks, R. Krishfield, N. Kurtz, S. Farrell and M. Davidson (2013), CryoSat-2 estimates of Arctic sea ice thickness and volume, Geophysical Research Letters, 40, doi:10.1002/grl.50193.
This work was funded by the UK Natural Environment Research Council and by the European Space Agency. We thank the Norwegian Meteorological Service Ocean and Sea Ice Satellite Application Facility and the National Snow and Ice Data Centre for providing NRT measurements of sea ice sea ice type and concentration, which allow us to produce NRT measurements of Arctic sea ice thickness.
Best wishes,
Rachel Tilling, Andy Ridout, Andy Shepherd and Alan Muir
