EUMETSAT OSI SAF Global Sea Ice Concentration Reprocessing Data

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The global reprocessed sea ice concentration data set from the EUMETSAT Ocean and Sea Ice Satellite Application Facility (OSI SAF) spans 1978 through 2009 and was generated with brightness temperature data from the Nimbus-7 Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer (SMMR) and the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) -F8, -F11, -F13, -F14, and -F15 Special Sensor Microwave/Imagers (SSM/Is). Sea ice concentrations were computed from atmospherically corrected SMMR and SSM/I brightness temperatures using a combination of state-of-the-art algorithms and dynamic tie-points. Gridded files are available every other day for the SMMR record from 1978 through 1987, and every day for the SSM/I record from 1987 through 2009. As this product contains data quality and error information and is unique from other sea ice products archived at NSIDC, such as those generated using the NASA Team and Bootstrap algorithms, it is especially useful for cross-validation studies.

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The following example shows how to cite the use of this data set in a publication. List the principal investigators, year of data set release, data set title, dates of data you used (for example, June to September 2001), copyright (year) EUMETSAT, and digital media.

Tonboe, R., S. Eastwood, T. Lavergne, and L. T. Pedersen. 2011. EUMETSAT OSI SAF Global Sea Ice Concentration Reprocessing Data, (list version and dates you used). Copyright (2011) EUMETSAT. Digital Media.

See Also

• Sea Ice Concentrations from Nimbus-7 SMMR and DMSP SSM/I-SSMIS Passive Microwave Data
• Bootstrap Sea Ice Concentrations from Nimbus-7 SMMR and DMSP SSM/I
• NSIDC Sea Ice Index
• OSI SAF Web Site
• Contact User Services