A climate data record of year-round global sea-ice drift from the EUMETSAT Ocean and Sea Ice Satellite Application Facility (OSI SAF)

Lavergne, Thomas; Down, Emily

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-5807-2023

Articles | Volume 15, issue 12

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-5807-2023

© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-5807-2023

© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 15, issue 12

Data description paper

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20 Dec 2023

Data description paper |

| 20 Dec 2023

A climate data record of year-round global sea-ice drift from the EUMETSAT Ocean and Sea Ice Satellite Application Facility (OSI SAF)

Thomas Lavergne and Emily Down

Data sets

Global Sea Ice Drift Climate Data Record Release v1.0 - Multimission OSI SAF https://doi.org/10.15770/EUM_SAF_OSI_0012

Model code and software

Software to reproduce Figures and Tables Emily Down and Thomas Lavergne https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7595043

Processing software for the EUMETSAT OSI SAF Sea Ice Drift Climate Data Record v1 (OSI-455) Emily Down and Thomas Lavergne https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8398416

Interactive computing environment

Notebook to demonstrate transformation and rotation of sea-ice drift vectors Thomas Lavergne https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8315155

Short summary

Sea ice in the Arctic and Antarctic can move several tens of kilometers per day due to wind and ocean currents. By analysing thousands of satellite images, we measured how sea ice has been moving every single day from 1991 through to 2020. We compare our data to how buoys attached to the ice moved and find good agreement. Other scientists will now use our data to better understand if climate change has modified the way sea ice moves and in what way.