{"id":648851,"date":"2020-03-11T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=648851"},"modified":"2020-03-11T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T11:00:00","slug":"sea-ice-thickness-and-volume-from-smos-and-cryosat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=648851","title":{"rendered":"Sea-ice thickness and volume from SMOS and CryoSat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Sea-ice_thickness_and_volume_from_SMOS_and_CryoSat_card_full.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sea-ice thickness and volume are essential climate variables that critically contribute to the characterisation of Earth&#8217;s climate. Combining data from ESA&#8217;s CryoSat satellite, which measures thick ice, and ESA&#8217;s SMOS satellite, which measures thin ice, allows for the measurement of thickness for both first-year and multi-year ice. This allows for the calculation of sea-ice volume for the whole Northern hemisphere.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Videos\/2020\/03\/Sea-ice_thickness_and_volume_from_SMOS_and_CryoSat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Sea-ice thickness and volume from SMOS and CryoSat<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Top Multimedia&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sea-ice thickness and volume are essential climate variables that critically contribute to the characterisation of Earth&#8217;s climate. Combining data from ESA&#8217;s CryoSat satellite, which measures thick ice, and ESA&#8217;s SMOS&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":648852,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-648851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=648851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/648852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=648851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=648851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=648851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}