CANONICAL MARINE PARAMETER
Sea-ice concentration
Fraction or percentage of a grid cell or observed area covered by sea ice.
- Canonical key
sea_ice_concentration- Parameter family
- Sea ice
- Scientific category
- Cryosphere
- Canonical unit
- % or 1
- CF standard name / vocabulary
- sea_ice_area_fraction
- Vertical domain
- surface
- Required qualifiers
- algorithm; concentration units
- Merge policy
- MERGE
- Mapped sources
- 4
Marine observation sources
The following registered sources have indexed metadata mappings for this parameter. Consult the registry details for each mapping's verification and review status.
- OceanSITES OceanSITES / GDACs
- Copernicus Marine Global In-Situ Copernicus Marine Service
- NOAA CoastWatch NOAA NESDIS / CoastWatch
- EUMETSAT / OSI SAF EUMETSAT + Ocean and Sea Ice SAF