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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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