Spatial correlation length scales of sea-ice concentration errors of high-concentration pack ice for ESA-CCI-SICCI2-25km

<strong>Abstract:</strong> Spatial correlation length scales derived from ESA-CCI SICCI-2 project sea-ice concentration data products at 25.0km grid resolution based on AMSR-E brightness temperature measurements for the period June 2002 through September 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: 2002-06-16; temporalExtent_endDate: 2011-09-19; 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: Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer aboard EOS (AMSR-E); instrumentType: multi-channel microwave radiometer; instrumentLocation: Earth Observation Satellite (EOS) - Aqua; instrumentProvider: JAXA; 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, ~30.823 GigaByte in total (provided as annual zip archives for each hemisphere = 20 files)

<strong>Format: </strong>netCDF

<strong>DataSources:</strong> Pedersen, L. T., Dybkjaer, G., Eastwood, S., Heygster, G., Ivanova, N., Kern, S., Lavergne, T., Saldo, R., Sandven, S., Soerensen, A., and Tonboe, R. T.: ESA Sea Ice Climate Change Initiative (Sea_Ice_cci): Sea Ice Concentration Climate Data Record from the AMSR-E and AMSR2 instruments at 25km grid spacing, version 2.1, Centre for Environmental Data Analysis [data set], 5 October 2017, https://doi.org/10.5285/f17f146a31b14dfd960cde0874236ee5

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