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Status of the OSI SAF sea-ice products
Steinar Eastwood, Rasmus Tonboe, Thomas Lavergne
Corresponding author: Steinar Eastwood – steinare@met.no
Since 1997 the EUMETSAT Ocean and Sea Ice Satellite Application Facility (OSI SAF) has been developing and providing operational sea-ice data products for use by the meteorological and oceanography communities. Development and operations of the High Latitude Processing Centre are shared between the Norwegian and Danish Meteorology Institutes. Global sea-ice concentration, edge and type datasets, mainly based on passive microwave instruments like the SSM/I, have been made available since 2005. Recently, scatterometer signal from the ASCAT instrument have been added for enhanced ice edge and type classification, while a new sea-ice motion product was introduced. Release of new products are planned in the next 2 years, like AVHRR-based sea-ice drift and sea-ice edge products as well as sea-ice emissivity. In this contribution, we present the current status of the OSI SAF sea-ice products. The various datasets are introduced along with validation methodology and monitoring results. Upcoming operational upgrades like ingestion of the SSMIS instrument and new products are featured as well.
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