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Arctic Sea Ice Thickness, and Volume Data

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CPOM

Download Information

This section provides information on how to manually or automatically download EOCIS Arctic Sea Ice products.

Note that you can also download products by clicking the download icon [ ] in the product view panels on the product home page.

Download Individual Sea Ice Thickness Monthly Gridded Products

To download the EOCIS Sea Ice Arctic monthly gridded mean thickness for a specific month using the you can use the following URL. Substitute the actual year and month for YYYYMM.

http://www.cpom.ucl.ac.uk/eocis/seaice/data/EOCIS-SEAICE-L3C-SITHICK-CS2-5KM-YYYYMM-fv1.0.nc

Example: To download the product for January 2016, the URL would be:

http://www.cpom.ucl.ac.uk/eocis/seaice/data/EOCIS-SEAICE-L3C-SITHICK-CS2-5KM-201601-fv1.0.nc

Download All Months of Gridded Products

You can download all available months as a single zip file using the URL:

http://www.cpom.ucl.ac.uk/eocis/seaice/data/EOCIS-SEAICE-L3C-SITHICK-CS2-5KM-ALL-fv1.0.zip

This will unzip to include each separate monthly file since Nov 2010.

Download Latest Time-series Product

The latest time-series product can be downloaded from the URL directory:

http://www.cpom.ucl.ac.uk/eocis/seaice/timeseries_data/cs2/arco/latest

Using the wget tool, the syntax to download the latest timeseries would be:

wget -r -nd --no-parent -A 'EOCIS*.nc' http://www.cpom.ucl.ac.uk/eocis/seaice/timeseries_data/cs2/arco/latest/

Tools for Automatic or Manual Downloads

There are many different ways to download data from URLs. Some suggested tools are wget and curl.