Daily averaged fractional ice cover in percentage, processed from passive microwave satellite data (SMMR, SSM/I, and SSMIS) over the polar regions. Sea ice concentration and its uncertainties are calculated from swath observations, and averaged and gridded to the daily fields. This CDR benefited from R&D activities in the ESA CCI projects. This is a Thematic Climate Data Record (TCDR).
Besides the Thredds server, mentioned in the resources, another way to access this product is through the FTP server ftp://osisaf.met.no/reprocessed/ice/conc/v3p0
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