BackForward Variable: Sea-ice thickness

Definition
Full name Sea-ice thickness
Definition Thickness of the ice sheet. It is related to sea-ice elevation and ice density
Measuring Units cm Uncertainty Units cm
Horizontal Res Units km Vertical Res Units
Stability Units cm (Stability /decade)

 

Comment:
Last modified: 2014-12-18
Applied in OSCAR/Space Gap Analysis: Yes
Classification
  • Domain: Ocean
    • Sub-domain: Sea Ice
      • Variable: Sea-ice thickness
        • Measured in Layers:
          • Sea surface

Requirements defined for Sea-ice thickness  (5)

This tables shows all related requirements. For more operations/filtering, please consult the full list of Requirements
Note: In reading the values, goal is marked blue, breakthrough green, threshold orange
Application-dependent Technical Priority (ATP) Magenta and Relative priority of the attributes Red

Id Variable Layer App Area ATP Uncertainty Layer/s Quality Coverage Quality Stability / decade Hor Res Ver Res Obs Cyc Timeliness Coverage Conf Level Val Date Source General Comment Application Area Comment Horizontal Coverage Comment Observation Comment Performance Comment
562 Sea-ice thickness Climate-OOPC (deprecated) 0.1 cm
0.2 cm
1 cm
100 km
170 km
500 km
24 h
2 d
7 d
24 h
3 d
24 d
Global reasonable 2007-07-19 OOPC
847 Sea-ice thickness Sea surface 2.5 Atmospheric Climate Monitoring 10 cm 25 km 30 d Global reasonable 2019-10-15 GCOS-200: The Global Observing System for Climate: Implementation Needs (Published 2016) Requirements in the GCOS-200 IP, Annex A, are only specified at the goal level.
11 Sea-ice thickness Sea surface CLIC (deprecated) 100 cm
126 cm
200 cm
200 km
300 km
500 km
7 d
12 d
30 d
30 d
45 d
90 d
Global ocean tentative 1998-10-29 WCRP
295 Sea-ice thickness Sea surface 2.1 Global Numerical Weather Prediction and Real-time Monitoring 20 cm
50 cm
100 cm
15 km
50 km
250 km
24 h
5 d
30 d
24 h
5 d
30 d
Global ocean tentative 2009-02-10 John Eyre
373 Sea-ice thickness Sea surface 2.2 High-Resolution Numerical Weather Prediction 20 cm
50 cm
100 cm
2 km
10 km
40 km
12 h
24 h
2 d
12 h
24 h
3 d
Global ocean speculative 2011-07-29 T Montmerle