Message Service #2593

20 April 2023

  • Sea ice

Release of OSI SAF monthly-mean sea-ice concentration CDR/ICDR

The OSI SAF sea ice team is pleased to announce the first-time release of monthly-mean sea-ice concentration product files as part of our climate data records. These monthly-mean files are computed from the daily files of OSI-450-a and OSI-430-a (the latest sea-ice concentration CDR and ICDR, version 3).

Users can find the new monthly files for the period Oct 1978 to Dec 2020:

Timely updates of monthly SIC files from Jan 2021 onwards are available:

The content of the monthly files are documented in the Product User Manual (PUM) accessible from https://osi-saf.eumetsat.int/products/osi-450-a. Note that the following months are missing because of missing satellite input data: 1978-10, 1986-04, 1986-05, 1986-06, and 1987-12.

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