Antarctica SSA and broadband albedo austral summer 2022/2023 from Sentinel-3’s OLCI and pySICEv1.6

Timespan 15 Oct, 2022 to 28 Feb 2023 Description 0.5 km daily SSA and broadband albedo. Albedo is 'spherical', meaning 'white sky' or 'diffuse', i.e. does not depend on the position of the sun. Data format is NetCDF. Embedded are attributes. We suggest using xarray to read the data files. pySICEv1.6 is available at  https://github.com/GEUS-SICE/pySICE/releases/tag/v1.6 Related Publications Kokhanovsky, A., M. Lamare, O. Danne, C. Brockmann, M. Dumont, G. Picard, L. Arnaud, V. Favier, B. Jourdain, E. Lemeur, B. Di Mauro, T Aoki, M. Niwano, V. Rozanov, S. Korkin, S. Kipfstuhl, J. Freitag, M. Hoerhold, A. Zuhr, D. Vladimirova, A.-K. Faber, H.C. Steen-Larsen, S. Wahl, J.K. Andersen, B. Vandecrux, D. van As, K.D. Mankoff, M. Kern, E. Zege, and J.E. Box, Retrieval of snow and ice properties from the Sentinel-3 Ocean and Land Colour Instrument, Remote Sensing, Remote Sens. 2019, 11(19), 2280; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11192280 Kokhanovsky, A.; Box, J.E.; Vandecrux, B.; Mankoff, K.D.; Lamare, M.; Smirnov, A.; Kern, M. The Determination of Snow Albedo from Satellite Measurements Using Fast Atmospheric Correction Technique. Remote Sens. 2020, 12, 234. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12020234 Arioli, S., Picard, G., Arnaud, L., and Favier, V.: Dynamics of the snow grain size in a windy coastal area of Antarctica from continuous in situ spectral-albedo measurements, The Cryosphere, 17, 2323–2342, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-2323-2023, 2023. Vandecrux, B.; Box, J.E.; Wehrlé, A.; Kokhanovsky, A.A.; Picard, G.; Niwano, M.; Hörhold, M.; Faber, A.-K.; Steen-Larsen, H.C. The Determination of the Snow Optical Grain Diameter and Snowmelt Area on the Greenland Ice Sheet Using Spaceborne Optical Observations. Remote Sens. 2022, 14, 932. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14040932 Questions? [e-mail] New pySICE versions Find the latest version of pySICE here: https://github.com/GEUS-SICE/pySICE For example pySICEv2.0 described in Kokhanovsky, A., Vandecrux, B., Wehrlé, A., Danne, O., Brockmann, C., and Box, J. E.: An improved retrieval of snow and Ice properties using spaceborne OLCI/S-3 spectral reflectance measurements: Updated atmospheric correction and snow impurity load estimation, Remote Sens. (Basel), 15, 77, https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15010077, 2022.