Thomas Lavergne

#SeaIce and #Satellites friends: check out this short story : "Satellite ’archaeology’ provides record of 1970s sea ice development".

👉 https://climate.esa.int/en/news-events/satellite-archeology-provides-record-of-1970s-sea-ice-development/

The #ESA CCI+ #SeaIce team releases a first version of a Sea Ice Concentration data record covering 1972 - 1977 with the #ESMR Nimbus-5 mission !

Access the data and its documentation on the #CCI Open Data Portal: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/34a15b96f1134d9e95b9e486d74e49cf

Satellite ’archaeology’ provides record of 1970s sea ice development

A new sea ice concentration satellite data product, released as part of the ESA Climate Change Initiative, harvests early prototype satellite sensor data to provide new insight into the development of global sea ice during the 1970s.

ESA Climate Office
Mar 13, 2023 at 5:28pmWeb
Show threadRick ThomanMar 13, 2023
@lavergnetho This is really important work. Thanks for sharing this.
Show threadThomas LavergneMar 14, 2023

@AlaskaWx

Thanks Rick.

I am impressed by what the team managed to do for this first version. They had to deal with old tape transcripts, limited QC and questionnable calibration.

They are already working on their v2, with many improvements.

Show threadRick ThomanMar 14, 2023
@lavergnetho Thanks for the info. The 1970s featured some extremes of sea ice in the Bering and Chukchi Seas so I’m quite keen for these results.