" ; :geographic_region = "Northern hemisphere" ; :geospatial_lat_min = "60.0N" ; :geospatial_lat_max = "90.0N" ; :geospatial_lon_min = "0.0E" ; :geospatial_lon_max = "360.0E" ; :geospatial_lon_resolution = "12.5km" ; :geospatial_lat_resolution = "12.5km" ; :license = "Free and open access" ; :platform = "EOS-TERRA" ; :sensor = "MODIS" ; :Projection = "Polar-Stereographic with tangential plane at 70degN (NSIDC)" ; :Comment = "This is version 2.0 of the melt pond fraction and open water fraction data set from University of Hamburg for periods May 9 to September 13 every year, main changes to version 1 are a) a bias reduction of the melt pond fraction of 8% and b) a bias reduction of the open water fraction by 3%; see Mäkynen, M., S. Kern, A. Rösel, and L. T. Pedersen, On the estimation of melt pond fraction on the Arctic sea ice with ENVISAT WSM images, Trans. Geosci. Rem. Sens., 52(11), 7366-7379, doi:10.1109/TGRS.2014.2311476, 2014, and Kern, S., M. Zygmuntowska, K. Khvorostovsky, G. Spreen, N. Ivanova, and A. Beitsch, ESA CCI Sea Ice ECV Project Report D4.1 Product Validation & Intercomparison Report (PVIR), SICCI-PVIR, v1.1,25-02-2015; Melt pond fraction and its standard deviation are set to 101 (the fill value) for grid cells with less than 63 or 563 good values (63 and 563 corresponds to 10% and 90% of the theoretical number of 500 m sub grid cells), Melt pond fraction and its standard deviation are set to 0 for ice concentrations less than 15%, Land mask from AMSRE_gsfc_n.hdf, 0 is open water, 1 is land; see Roesel, A., L. Kaleschke, G. Birnbaum, Melt ponds on Arctic sea ice determined from MODIS satellite data using an artificial neural network, The Cryosphere, 6, 431-446, doi:10.5194/tc-6-431-2012, 2012" ; }