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ESA Sea Ice Climate Change Initiative (Sea Ice CCI): Northern 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 Arctic 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)
- 2016-03-08T16:47:05
- Date (Creation)
- 2016-03-08T16:47:05
- Citation identifier
- https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/0bf2a301eeba46dfa16668b716d02ab5
- Citation identifier
- Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / 0bf2a301eeba46dfa16668b716d02ab5
- Point of contact
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Toudal Pedersen, Leif
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Dybkjær, Gorm
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Heygster, Georg
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Ivanova, Natalia
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Kern, Stefan
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Lavergne, Thomas
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Rösel, Anja
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Saldo, Roberto
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Sandven, Stein
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Sørensen, Atle
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Tonboe, Rasmus T.
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Author Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)
Custodian Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)
Distributor Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)
pointofContact Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)
Publisher
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Unknown
- Update scope
- Dataset
- Keywords
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- Norwegian Meteorological Institute
- AMSRE
- Aqua
- Level 4
- day
- sea ice
- sea ice concentration
- AMSR
- EOS
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Sea Ice
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ESA
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CCI
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Arctic
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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orthoimagery
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- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Spatial representation type
- Grid
- Language
- English
- Topic category
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- Imagery base maps earth cover
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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
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Name Version Data is in NetCDF format
- Distributor contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)
Distributor
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/0bf2a301eeba46dfa16668b716d02ab5 CEDA Data Catalogue Page
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name http://data.ceda.ac.uk/neodc/esacci/sea_ice/data/sea_ice_concentration/L4/phase1_oldproducts/amsr-e/v1.11/NorthernHemisphere DOWNLOAD
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Protocol Linkage Name http://data.ceda.ac.uk/neodc/esacci/sea_ice/docs/phase_1/SICCI_PUG_D3.4_Issue_2.0.pdf Product User Guide
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Protocol Linkage Name http://www.the-cryosphere.net/9/1797/2015/tc-9-1797-2015.pdf 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.
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name https://climate.esa.int/projects/sea-ice/ ESA CCI Sea Ice project website
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name http://data.ceda.ac.uk/neodc/esacci/sea_ice/metadata/sample_images/SeaIce_AMSR-E_North.png Sample Image
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Protocol Linkage Name https://climate.esa.int/ ESA Climate Change Initiative website
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- Dataset
Conformance result
- Title
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Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
- 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 was supplied to CEDA in the context of the ESA CCI Open Data Portal Project
Metadata
- File identifier
- 0bf2a301eeba46dfa16668b716d02ab5 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Parent identifier
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ESA Sea Ice Climate Change Initiative (Sea Ice CCI) Dataset Collection
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- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-06-16T02:06:43
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
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2.3
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)
Point of contact
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