Product User Guide & Algorithm Specification: AWI CryoSat-2 Sea Ice Thickness (version 2.1)

• Main Authors: Hendricks, Stefan, Ricker, Robert
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Alfred Wegener Institute 2019
• Subjects: Alfred Wegener Institute; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/49542/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/49542/1/AWI-CryoSat2-ProductUserGuide-v2p1.pdf; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.7dacf2fe-bead-4a1b-a266-c4fdd022877f

This document provides an overview of all aspects of the CryoSat-2 Arctic sea-ice thickness data product (version 2.1) generated at the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research (AWI). It contains information on the 1) Primary and auxiliary data sets used in the processing, 2) Description of the algorithm used deriving geophysical information along orbit segments and on space-time grids 3) Technical specifications of the product files 4) Data access 5) Known Issues of the data record