Arctic Sea Ice

Arctic Sea Ice

Arctic sea ice thickness processed at UCL from CryoSat’s SAR mode data.

Note that sea ice thickness is not calculated from CryoSat during the Arctic summer months (May-Sep) due to measurement problems caused by melt ponds on the sea ice.

image showing the extent of and thickness of arctic sea ice

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Summary Specification:

Arctic, 5km x 5km, 1km x 1km, EPSG:3995, Daily, Monthly and Seasonally (3-month), since October 2010

Obtaining the data:

http://www.cpom.ucl.ac.uk/csopr/seaice.php

To visualise and explore this data further please visit:

http://www.cpom.ucl.ac.uk/eocis/seaice/