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  • ESA Sea Ice Climate Change Initiative (Sea_Ice_cci): High(er) Resolution Sea Ice Concentration Climate Data Record Version 3 (SSM/I and SSMIS)
  • 2025-10-01 01:10:48
  • This climate data record of sea ice concentration (SIC) is obtained using passive microwave satellite data from the Special Sensor Microwave Imager (SSM/I) and the Special Sensor Microwave Imager Sounder (SSMIS) over the polar regions (Arctic and Antarctic). The processing chain features: 1) dynamic tuning of tie-points and algorithms, 2) correction of atmospheric noise using a Radiative Transfer Model, 3) computation of per-pixel uncertainties, 4) an optimal hybrid sea ice concentration algorithm, and 5) pan-sharpening of the SIC fields using the near-90 GHz imagery channels. This dataset was generated by the ESA Climate Change Initiative (CCI+) Sea Ice Phase 1 project. This dataset is an enhanced-resolution version of the EUMETSAT Ocean and Sea Ice Satellite Application Facility Global Sea Ice Concentration Climate Data Record (OSI SAF OSI-450-a CDR) over the period 1991-2020.
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  • CEDA
    RAL Space, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus
    OX11 0QX Didcot
    United Kingdom
    tel:01235446432
    support@ceda.ac.uk
  • CEDA
    RAL Space, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus
    OX11 0QX Didcot
    United Kingdom
    tel:01235446432
    support@ceda.ac.uk
  • CEDA
    RAL Space, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus
    OX11 0QX Didcot
    United Kingdom
    tel:01235446432
    support@ceda.ac.uk
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  • -90.0 -180.0 -90.0 180.0 90.0 180.0 90.0 -180.0 -90.0 -180.0
  • 1991-01-07 00:00:00 / 2020-12-31 23:59:59
  • Sea Ice
  • ESA
  • CCI
  • Arctic
  • Antarctic
  • orthoimagery
  • The data are in NetCDF format.