about SICE

SICE provides an open access toolchain to generate open access data of snow and ice optical products for the land ice cryosphere and 100% snow covered areas. The vision is to extend the coverage of NASA MODIS data into the future now with Sentinel-3A operating since Oct 2016 and Sentinel-3B since 2018.

SICE has been evolving from the following ESA contracts

  1. Dec. 2016 – Jan. 2019 SEOM S34Sci Land Study 1: Snow, ESRIN Contract 4000118926/16/I-NB
  2. Dec. 2018 – Jul. 2020 EO Science For Society, ESA/Contract 4000125043/18/I-NB – ESA/AO/1-9101/17/I-NB EO SCIENCE FOR SOCIETY, Pre-operational Sentinel-3 Snow and Ice Products (SICE)
  3. Jan. 2019 – Dec. 2020 ESA PRODEX, An operational service of new Sentinel-3 algorithms for climate monitoring of the Greenland Cryosphere within the CryoClim network
  4. May 2021 – June 2023 ESA PRODEX, Seamless Integration of Sentinel-3 Albedos in a Weather-modelling System (SISAWS)
  5. Feb 2022 – Oct. 2023 ESA EO Science For Society, Snow and ICE optical and physical properties from Sentinel-3 (SICE), ESA CCN contract 4000125043/18/I-NB

SICE is also supported by the European Union’s Caroline Herschel Framework Partnership Agreement on Copernicus User Uptake under grant agreement No FPA 275/G/GRO/COPE/17/10042, project FPCUP (Framework Partnership Agreement on Copernicus User Uptake), Action 2019-2-13 “An investigation of Arctic albedo processing and delivery to users via a Data and Information Access Service (DIAS)”.

A chronological list of participants…

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Jason E. Box, Kenneth D. Mankoff, Baptiste Vandecrux, Adrien Wehrlé – Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS)

Alexander Kokhanovsky, Olaf Danne and Carsten Brockmann – Brockmann Consult GmbH, Geesthacht, Germany

Maxim Lamare and Ghislain Picard – Institute des Géoscience de l’Environnement (IGE), Grenoble, France c/o Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France

Marie Dumont – Météo France c/o Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France

ESA Technical Officer – Michael Kern, PhD, Earth and Mission Science Division, ESTEC
Keplerlaan 1, NL-2201 AZ Noordwijk, The Netherlands