Product User Guide & Algorithm Specification: AWI CryoSat-2 Sea Ice Thickness (version 2.5)

• Main Authors: Stefan Hendricks, Stephan Paul
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Zenodo 2022
• Subjects: sea ice; remote sensing; earth observation; cryosphere; Arctic; Alfred Wegener Institute; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7416200

This document provides an overview of all aspects of the CryoSat-2 Arctic sea-ice thickness data product (version 2.5) generated at the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research (AWI). It contains information on the primary and auxiliary data sets used in the processing, the description of the algorithm used to derive geophysical information along orbit segments and on space-time grids, the technical specifications of the product files, information on data access, as well as the known issues of the data record.