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AWI Meereisportal CryoSat-2 / Sea-Ice & Snow Data

Alfred Wegener Institute sea-ice portal serving CryoSat-2 radar-altimetry-derived sea-ice freeboard, thickness and snow depth products plus combined ICESat-2/CryoSat-2 datasets relevant to the cryospheric water cycle.

data.meereisportal.de

At a glance

Region
Germany (Global)
Coverage
Polar / Global
Access
Free
Category
Research Institute
Last updated
2025

What's inside

  • sea ice thickness
  • snow depth
  • freeboard

What you can do with it

Typical work that data of this type supports.

  1. 01

    Melt runoff

    Forecast snowmelt contributions to rivers.

    Because it has: sea ice thickness

  2. 02

    Glacier change

    Track glacier retreat over decades.

  3. 03

    No-gauge areas

    Monitor places with no ground stations.

Where AI adds value

Ideas for machine learning and AI agents built on this kind of data.

  1. 01

    Cloud-free snow maps

    Fill snow cover hidden by cloud with ML.

  2. 02

    Melt-season flows

    Predict melt-season river flow from snow and weather.

  3. 03

    Segmentation

    Map water, crops and land use pixel by pixel with deep learning.

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