ESA Sea Ice Climate Change Initiative (Sea_Ice_cci): Sea Ice Concentration Climate Data Record from the AMSR-E and AMSR-2 instruments at 50 km 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 coarse resolution (6 GHz and 37 GHz) imaging channels, and has been gridded at 50km grid spacing.

This product was generated in the context of the ESA Climate Change Initiative Programme (ESA CCI) by the 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 25km grid spacing is also available (doi: 10.5285/c61bfe88-873b-44d8-9b0e-6a0ee884ad95) and a 12.5km product is in preparation.

Date (Publication): 2017-02-28T17:08:51

Date (Creation): 2017-02-28T17:08:51

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/8a45e78c4657438997617c726337dffc

Citation identifier: Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / 8a45e78c4657438997617c726337dffc

Citation identifier: doi / http://dx.doi.org/10.5285/70f611b0-ba82-48e6-9190-a62cf9f925f2

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Unavailable	Toudal Pedersen, Leif	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Dybkjær, Gorm	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Eastwood, Steinar	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Heygster, Georg	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Ivanova, Natalia	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Kern, Stefan	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Lavergne, Thomas	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Saldo, Roberto	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Sandven, Stein	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Sørensen, Atle	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Tonboe, Rasmus T.	Unavailable	Author
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Custodian
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Distributor
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	pointofContact
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Publisher

Maintenance and update frequency: Not planned

Update scope: Dataset

Keywords

sea ice
Sea Ice
ESA
CCI
Arctic
Antarctic

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

orthoimagery

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

Other constraints: Under the following licence https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/licences/specific_licences/esacci_seaice_terms_and_conditions.pdf, appropriate use of these data may fall under any use. This message is intended as guidance, always read the full licence. When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.

Spatial representation type: Grid

Language: English

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Imagery base maps earth cover

Begin date: 2002-05-31T23:00:00

End date: 2015-12-31T23:59:59

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

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Name	Version
Data are in NetCDF format

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Distributor

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/8a45e78c4657438997617c726337dffc	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/neodc/esacci/sea_ice/data/sea_ice_concentration/L4/amsr/50km/v2.0/	DOWNLOAD

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/neodc/esacci/sea_ice/docs/SICCI_P2_SIC_PUG_D3.3_Issue_1.0.pdf	Product User Guide

OnLine resource

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

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://climate.esa.int/projects/sea-ice/	ESA CCI Sea Ice project website

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://climate.esa.int/	ESA Climate Change Initiative website

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Conformance result

Title: 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: 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

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File identifier: 8a45e78c4657438997617c726337dffc XML

Metadata language: English

Character set: UTF8

Parent identifier: ESA Sea Ice Climate Change Initiative (Sea Ice CCI) Dataset Collection
5e789087d4e847308a39b3fe5b26e281

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Date stamp: 2025-06-16T02:11:11

Metadata standard name: UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version: 2.3

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Point of contact

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