De la Fuente, Antonio

Hendricks, Stefan

Kaleschke, Lars

Ricker, Robert

Tian-Kunze, Xiangshan

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Long-term Observational Sea Ice Thickness Products from SMOS and CryoSat-2  Xiangshan Tian-Kunze1, Lars Kaleschke1, Stefan Hendricks1, Robert Ricker2, and Antonio de la Fuente3April May JulyJuneAugust OctoberSeptemberSMOS seaicethickness[m]SMOS  Antarctic sea ice thickness climatology from 2010 to2020.  The retrieval algorithm is the same as in the Arctic. SMOS & CryoSat-2 Sea Ice Data ProductProcessing and Dissemination Service (CS2SMOS-PDS) operational at AWI, supported by ESAØ Arctic SMOS and CyroSat2/SMOS merged sea ice products availableduring Arctic winter seasons (15 October - 15 April)Ø Antarctic SMOS product (15 April - 15 October) will be soon available onlineØ Data disseminated over ftp.awi.de and https://smos-diss.eo.esa.intØ Documents and news can be found at https://spaces.awi.de/display/CS2SMOSL-Band brightness temperatures measured by SMOS includethin ice thickness information due to the large penetrationdepth. CryoSat-2 measures the freeboard of sea ice layer and sea ice thickness is estimated using hydrostatic balanceequation.Schematic chart of SMOS sea ice thickness retrieval.  Quicklooks of daily L3 SMOS and L4 CS2SMOS sea icethickness products in the Arctic. Sketch by A. SchmittSchematic chart of CS2SMOS sea ice thickness retrieval.  1: Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung, Bremerhaven, Germany  2: Norwegian Research Center, Tromsø, Norway 3: ESA/ESRIN, Frascati (Roma) ItalyReferences:Tian-Kunze, X. , Kaleschke, L., Maaß, N., Mäkynen, M., Serra, N., Drusch, M., and Krumpen, T. (2014) SMOS-derived thin sea ice thickness: algorithmbaseline, product specifications and initial verification, The Cryosphere , 8, 997-1018, doi:10.5194/tc-8-997-2014Ricker, R., Hendricks, S., Kaleschke, L., Tian-Kunze, X., King, J., and Haas, C.: A weekly Arctic sea-ice thickness data record from merged CryoSat-2 and SMOS satellite data, The Cryosphere, 11, 1607-1623, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-1607-2017, 2017.Sea ice thickness from freeboard 𝑓𝑑!𝜌! + 𝑓𝜌"𝜌" − 𝜌#• snow thickness 𝑑!• snow density 𝜌!• ice denstiy 𝜌#• water density 𝜌"

Long-term Observational Sea Ice Thickness Products from SMOS and CryoSat-2

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Long-term Observational Sea Ice Thickness Products from SMOS and CryoSat-2

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