OSI SAF sea ice products still missing

The OSI SAF sea ice products using only SSMIS data are still missing, since the outage of SSMIS data from NOAA, started on September 11 2024, is continuing. The impacted products are L2 NRT Sea ice concentration OSI-410-a (SSMIS), L3 NRT Sea ice concentration OSI-401-d, Emissivity OSI-404-a, Sea ice index OSI-420 and Sea ice concentration ICDR Fast track OSI-430-a.

We do not have an indication on when the input data will be back to nominal. We apologize for the inconvenience this might cause.

The sea ice edge (OSI-402-d), type (OSI-403-d) and drift (OSI-405-c) products are still being provided, since they are multisensor products and rely more on AMSR2 than SSMIS data.

We would like to remind our NRT sea ice concentration users about our AMSR2-based NRT sea ice concentration products L2 (OSI-410-a) and L3 (OSI-408-a). You can read more about these product here: Level 2 PMW sea ice concentration | OSI SAF (eumetsat.int) and Global Sea Ice Concentration (AMSR-2) | OSI SAF (eumetsat.int)

OSI SAF sea ice team