Observational Sea-Ice Product with floe size

COSIMA Sea Ice
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There is a new product up on Copernicus with floe size distribution derived from Sentinel-1 SAR imagery and passive microwave.

There is a long dataset with good coverage in the Arctic:

And they have processed what they can in the Antarctic but its limited both in time (only 2 years) and looks like it has spatial gaps.

Could be useful datasets for validatining sea-ice+wave models , including marginal ice zone width and floe size validation :slight_smile:
ping @adfraser @NoahDay

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Thanks Anton! This sounds exciting and I’ll definitely be looking into these products in the coming weeks.

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@adfraser is better at reading than I am and pointed out the Antarctic Sea Ice information is only concentration derived from SAR, doesn’t included the floe size