10.21944/QUIKSCAT_SH_SEA_ICE_V1.0
Verhoef, Anton
0000-0001-5383-9086
Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI)
Belmonte Rivas, Maria
0000-0003-0528-3858
Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI)
Stoffelen, Ad
0000-0002-4018-4073
Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI)
QuikSCAT SeaWinds Antarctic daily sea ice extent and backscatter maps
Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI)
2018
Satellite data
antarctic
scatterometer
sea ice extent
radar backscatter
ice age
ice type
ice class
2018-03-01
1999-07-19 / 2009-11-22
application/x-netcdf
The sea ice extent and normalized backscatter from the SeaWinds
scatterometer on QuikSCAT result from the Bayesian discrimination
of measured backscatter distances to prescribed ocean wind and
sea ice geophysical model functions. The sea ice product contains
the Bayesian sea ice probability and a proxy age of sea ice mapped
onto 12.5 km polar stereographic grids. The sea ice extent is
formed when the sea ice probability crosses a certain threshold,
and the proxy age of sea ice is converted to (normalized HH and VV
Ku-band) sea ice backscatter using the instructions detailed in the
User Manual.
1.0
-180.0
+180.0
-90.0
+90.0
EUMETSAT