Animations of sea ice thickness

This site ist still under construction.

Some related animations of sea ice thickness development in both hemispheres are available here. All corresponding data and figures are also available in die dataportal.

Sea ice thickness CryoSat-2

Sea ice thickness SMOS

Sea ice thickness SMOS AWI

Sea ice thickness CryoSat-2/SMOS AWI

Sea ice thickness SMOS

For the use of meereisportal.de, users are asked to include the following citation:

  1. Grosfeld, K.; Treffeisen, R.; Asseng, J.; Bartsch, A.; Bräuer, B.; Fritzsch, B.; Gerdes, R.; Hendricks, S.; Hiller, W.; Heygster, G.; Krumpen, T.; Lemke, P.; Melsheimer, C.; Nicolaus, M.; Ricker, R. and Weigelt, M. (2016), Online sea-ice knowledge and data platform <www.meereisportal.de>, Polarforschung, Bremerhaven, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research & German Society of Polar Research, 85 (2), 143-155, doi:10.2312/polfor.2016.011 (PDF).

For the use of the specific data from the data portal of meereisportal.de, users are asked to include the associated citations as indicated below.

For all CryoSat-2 data, please

  1. include the following phrase into the acknowledgment: Processing of the CryoSat-2 (PARAMETER) is funded by the German Ministry of Economics Affairs and Energy (grant: 50EE1008) and data from DATE to DATE obtained from https://www.meereisportal.de (grant: REKLIM-2013-04).
  2. refer to: Hendricks, S. and Ricker, R. (2020): Product User Guide & Algorithm Specification: AWI CryoSat-2 Sea Ice Thickness (version 2.3), https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/53331/.

For all SMOS data - University Bremen, please

  1. include the following phrase into the acknowledgment: Processing of the SMOS Data (PARAMETER) was funded by EU project SIDARUS and data from DATE to DATE obtained from https://www.meereisportal.de (grant: REKLIM-2013-04).
  2. refer to: Huntemann, M.; Heygster, G.; Kaleschke, L.; Krumpen, T.; Mäkynen, M. and Drusch, M. (2014): Empirical sea ice thickness retrieval during the freeze-up period from SMOS high incident angle observations, The Cryosphere, 8, 439-451, doi:10.5194/tc-8-439-2014.

For all SMOS data - AWI, please

  1. include the following phrase into the acknowledgment: The production of the SMOS sea ice thickness data was funded by the ESA project SMOS & CryoSat-2 Sea Ice Data Product Processing and Dissemination Service, and data from DATE to DATE obtained from https://www.meereisportal.de (grant: REKLIM-2013-04).
  2. refer to: Tian-Kunze, X.; Kaleschke, L.; Maaß, N.; Mäkynen, M.; Serra, N.; Drusch, M. and Krumpen, T. (2014): SMOS-derived thin sea ice thickness: algorithm baseline, product specifications and initial verification, The Cryosphere, 8, 997-1018, doi:10.5194/tc-8-997-2014.

For all CryoSat-2/SMOS data, please

  1. include the following phrase into the acknowledgment: The merging of CryoSat-2 und SMOS data was funded by the ESA project SMOS & CryoSat-2 Sea Ice Data Product Processing and Dissemination Service and data from DATE to DATE were obtained from https://www.meereisportal.de (grant: REKLIM-2013-04).
  2. refer to: Ricker, R.; Hendricks, S.; Kaleschke, L.; Tian-Kunze, X.; King, J. and Haas, C. (2017), A weekly Arctic sea-ice thickness data record from merged CryoSat-2 and SMOS satellite data, The Cryosphere, 11, 1607-1623, doi:10.5194/tc-11-1607-2017 (PDF).

In case of questions or any difficulties, please contact us at: Meereisportal Team.