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Global Sea Ice Concentration interim climate data record, release 2
| IDENTIFICATION |
| Description | This product is an operational extension of the Sea Ice Concentration Climate Data Record OSI-450, with a latency of 16 days, starting in 2016. OSI-430-b uses passive microwave data (PMW) from the SSMIS sensors, and the same algorithms as OSI-450. The product includes error-bars for each grid cell (uncertainties). |
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| Product type | Offline product |  |
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| Status | Demonstrational |
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| Identifier | OSI-430-b (complementing OSI-450) |
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| Acronym | GBL SICO ICDR 2 |
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| CHARACTERISTICS |
| Processing level | L3 |
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| Satellite input | DMSP/SSMIS |
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| Other input | ECMWF re-analysis and forecast for atmospheric correction |
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| Frequency | 1 per day |
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| Central time | 12:00 |
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| Timeliness | 16 days |
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| Spatial coverage | Global |
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| Spatial sampling | 25 km |
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| Projection | Lambert azimuthal |
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| Characteristics & methods | Daily averaged fractional ice cover in percentage. Fully consistent with with OSI-450, to ensure homogeneity. |
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| ACCURACY REQUIREMENTS |
| Thresold accuracy | 15 % (yearly average) |
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| Target accuracy | 8 % (yearly average) |
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| Optimal accuracy | 5 % (yearly average) |
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| Verification/validation method | Comparison with high spatial resolution manual ice charts (available between twice a week and once a week) : the performance shall be validated for only the “ice” and “water” cases, separately. |
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| DATA ACCESS |
| Diffusion mean(s) and format(s) | HL FTP Server (NetCDF4) |
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| Main FTP server | Archive HL FTP server | Other FTP server,
other mean(s) to access main server |
Thredds
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| EUMETCast | EUMETCast | Discovery mean(s) | |
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| EUMETSAT Data Centre | EDC |
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| Applications and users | Climate models, NWP and Ocean/Ice hindcast models, environmental agencies | OSI SAF Producer | Norwegian Meteorological Institute |
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| VIEW MORE |
DOCUMENTATION |
| Product web page | Description | Product User Manual | PUM |
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| Live production status | Live status | Algorithm Theoretical Baseline Document | ATBD |
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| Scientific Validation Report | SVR |
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| HISTORY, COMMENTS |
Fully consistent with OSI-450, to ensure homogeneity.
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| Expected date for operational/released | 01/09/2019 |
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| First product date | 01/01/2016 |
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