Data Description
A full description of the data processing and uncertainties is given in Lawrence et al. (2018).
The data consists of Dual-altimeter Snow Thickness (DuST), gridded on a 1.5° longitude x 0.5° latitude grid and stored as .txt files with columns: longitude, latitude, snow depth (m).
For the CryoSat-2 vs. AltiKa DuST product, snow depth is monthly averaged and the month is given in the file name.
For the ICESat vs. Envisat DuST product, snow depth is averaged per ICESat laser period, and the corresponding dates are given in the file names.
Note there is no data above 81.5° North due the upper latitude of AltiKa / Envisat.
Data is packaged as a single compressed tar file containing the following files:
CS2_AltiKa_DuST_gridded/ YYYYMM_snowdepth.txt YYYY=year from 2013..2018 MM= month
ICESat_Envisat_DuST_gridded/
2003-02-20_to_2003-03-29_snowdepth.txt 2003-09-25_to_2003-11-19_snowdepth.txt 2004-02-17_to_2004-03-21_snowdepth.txt 2004-05-18_to_2004-06-21_snowdepth.txt 2004-10-03_to_2004-11-08_snowdepth.txt 2005-02-17_to_2005-03-24_snowdepth.txt 2005-05-20_to_2005-06-23_snowdepth.txt 2005-10-21_to_2005-11-24_snowdepth.txt 2006-02-22_to_2006-03-27_snowdepth.txt 2006-05-24_to_2006-06-26_snowdepth.txt 2006-10-25_to_2006-11-27_snowdepth.txt 2007-03-12_to_2007-04-14_snowdepth.txt 2007-10-02_to_2007-11-05_snowdepth.txt 2008-02-17_to_2008-03-21_snowdepth.txt 2008-10-04_to_2008-10-19_snowdepth.txt
Reference
If you use the DuST data, please include the following acknowledgment and reference in your work:
Snow depth data were provided by the Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling, University College London (www.cpom.ucl.ac.uk/DuST)
Please reference: Lawrence, I. R.,Tsamados, M. C., Stroeve, J. C., Armitage, T. W., & Ridout, A. L. (2018). Estimating snow depth over Arctic sea ice from calibrated dual-frequency radar freeboards. The Cryosphere, 12(11). doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-3551-2018
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