BackForward Variable: Sea-ice thickness

Definition
Full name Sea-ice thickness
Definition Vertical distance between the bottom and the top of sea ice, excluding snow on ice.
Measuring Units m Uncertainty Units m
Horizontal Res Units m Vertical Res Units
Stability Units m (Stability /decade)

 

Comment:
Last modified: 2026-01-09
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
11 Sea-ice thickness Sea surface CLIC (deprecated) 100 m
126 m
200 m 		200 m
300 m
500 m 		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 m
50 m
100 m 		15 m
50 m
250 m 		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 m
50 m
100 m 		2 m
10 m
40 m 		12 h
24 h
2 d 		12 h
24 h
3 d 		Global ocean speculative 2011-07-29 T Montmerle
562 Sea-ice thickness Climate-OOPC (deprecated) 0.1 m
0.2 m
1 m 		100 m
170 m
500 m 		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 m 25 m 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.