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Gridded Observational Sea Ice Thickness Products, Version 1

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DOI

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Short Name

NSIDC-0690

Description

Fields of long-term mean spring ice thickness derived from ERS-1 (1993-2001) and CryoSat (2011 to 2013) radar altimeters, ICESat laser altimeter (2004 to 2009), Operation IceBridge airborne altimeter and snow radar (2009 to 2014), and submarine upward looking sonar (1986-) are provided on 100 km EASE grids. All satellite-derived ice thickness fields were regridded as needed from their original gridded format to 100-km EASE grids using a drop-in-the-bucket averaging. IceBridge and submarine thickness estimates within 70 km of a 100 km EASE grid box center were averaged to give a grid cell mean thickness.

Version

1

Measurement

Not provided › Not provided

Processing Level

NA

Coverage

Arctic Ocean

Time Span(s)

January 1, 1993 to December 31, 2014

Resolution

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Projection

-

Platform/Sensor

Multiple/MULTIPLE

Project

-

Data Provider

NSIDC

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