ESA Sea Ice Climate Change Initiative (Sea_Ice_cci): Northern hemisphere sea ice thickness from the CryoSat-2 satellite on a monthly grid (L3C), v2.0

This dataset provides a Climate Data Record of Sea Ice Thickness for the Northern Hemisphere polar region, derived from the SIRAL (SAR Interferometer Radar ALtimeter) instrument on the CryoSat-2 satellite at Level 3C (L3C). This product was generated in the context of the ESA Climate Change Initiative Programme (ESA CCI) by the Sea Ice CCI (Sea_Ice_cci) project.

It provides monthly gridded sea ice thickness data on a Lambeth Azimuthal Equal Area grid for the period November 2010 to April 2017. Data are only available for the NH winter months, October - April.

Date (Publication): 2018-05-25T11:01:23

Date (Creation): 2018-05-25T11:01:23

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/ff79d140824f42dd92b204b4f1e9e7c2

Citation identifier: Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / ff79d140824f42dd92b204b4f1e9e7c2

Citation identifier: alternative.identifier / esacci.SEAICE.mon.L3C.SITHICK.SIRAL.CryoSat-2.NH25KMEASE2.2-0.r1.v20180706

Citation identifier: doi / http://dx.doi.org/10.5285/ff79d140824f42dd92b204b4f1e9e7c2

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Unavailable	Hendricks, Stefan	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Paul, Stephan	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Rinne, Eero	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
CCI Open Data Portal		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

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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

Topic category

Imagery base maps earth cover

Begin date: 2010-11-01T00:00:00

End date: 2017-04-30T22:59:59

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/ff79d140824f42dd92b204b4f1e9e7c2	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/neodc/esacci/sea_ice/data/sea_ice_thickness/L3C/cryosat2/v2.0/NH/	DOWNLOAD

OnLine resource

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

OnLine resource

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

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/neodc/esacci/sea_ice/docs/SICCI_P2_SIT_PUG_D3.3_Issue_1.0.pdf	Product User Guide

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 and were supplied to CEDA in the context of the ESA CCI Open Data Portal Project

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File identifier: ff79d140824f42dd92b204b4f1e9e7c2 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: 2026-03-11T03:17:29

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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