Spatial correlation length scales of sea-ice concentration errors of high-concentration pack ice for Eumetsat OSI SAF product OSI-450

<strong>Abstract:</strong> Spatial correlation length scales derived from Eumetsat OSI SAF OSI-450 sea-ice concentration data products at 25.0km grid resolution based on SSM/I and SSMIS brightness temperature measurements for the period January 2002 through December 2011.

<strong>TableOfContents:</strong> sea_ice_area_fraction_error_correlation_length; total_standard_error_correlation_length; minimum_rmsd_for_sea_ice_area_fraction_correlation_length; minimum_rmsd_for_total_standard_error_correlation_length; surface_type_flag

<strong>Technical Info:</strong> dimensions: 432 columns x 432 rows x unlimited; temporalExtent_startDate: 2002-01-01; temporalExtent_endDate: 2011-12-31; temporalResolution: daily; spatialResolution: 25.0; spatialResolutionUnit: km; horizontalResolutionXdirection: 25.0; horizontalResolutionXdirectionUnit: km; horizontalResolutionYdirection: 25.0; horizontalResolutionYdirectionUnit: km; verticalResolution: none; verticalResolutionUnit: none; verticalStart: none; verticalEnd: none; instrumentName: Special Sensor Microwave / Imager (SSM/I), Special Sensor Microwave Imager / Sounder (SSMIS); instrumentType: multi-channel microwave radiometer; instrumentLocation: NOAA/NASA DMSP; instrumentProvider: NOAA/NASA; License: CC-BY-SA-NC-4.0

<strong>Methods:</strong> See Kern, S., Spatial correlation length scales of sea-ice concentration errors of high-concentration pack ice, Remote Sensing, 13(21), 4421, 2021, https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13214421

<strong>Units:</strong> units for all variables (see TableOfContents): km,km,1,1,1

<strong>geoLocations:</strong>

NorthernHemisphere: westBoundLongitude: -180.0 degrees East; eastBoundLongitude: 180.0 degrees East; southBoundLongitude: 16.62393 degrees North; northBoundLongitude: 90.0 degrees North; geoLocationPlace: northernHemisphere

SouthernHemisphere: westBoundLongitude: -180.0 degrees East; eastBoundLongitude: 180.0 degrees East; southBoundLongitude: -90.0 degrees North; northBoundLongitude: -16.62393 degrees North; geoLocationPlace: southernHemisphere

<strong>Size:</strong> 730 (leap year 732) files per year, one for each hemisphere, ~4.67 MegaBype per file, ~3.3295 GigaByte per year, ~33.295 GigaByte in total (provided as annual zip archives for each hemisphere = 20 files)

<strong>Format: </strong>netCDF

<strong>DataSources:</strong> EUMETSAT Ocean and Sea Ice Satellite Application Facility. (OSI SAF) Global sea ice concentration climate data record 1979-2015 (v2.0, 2017). Norwegian and Danish Meteorological Institutes. Available from osisaf.met.no., doi.org/10.15770/EUM_SAF_OSI_0008 [last accessed January 18 2022].

<strong>Contact:</strong> stefan.kern (at) uni-hamburg.de