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.
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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.
- 01
Melt runoff
Forecast snowmelt contributions to rivers.
Because it has: sea ice thickness
- 02
Glacier change
Track glacier retreat over decades.
- 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.
- 01
Cloud-free snow maps
Fill snow cover hidden by cloud with ML.
- 02
Melt-season flows
Predict melt-season river flow from snow and weather.
- 03
Segmentation
Map water, crops and land use pixel by pixel with deep learning.
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