{"id":796716,"date":"2025-06-18T09:47:07","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T14:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=796716"},"modified":"2025-06-18T09:47:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T14:47:07","slug":"introducing-cryosats-incredible-ice-snow-and-water-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=796716","title":{"rendered":"Introducing CryoSat\u2019s incredible ice, snow and water products"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"modal__tab-content--details\">\n<div class=\"modal__tab-description\">\n<p>CryoSat is\u00a0the European Space Agency\u2019s ice mission.<\/p>\n<p>It\u00a0measures the ice sheets covering Greenland and Antarctica, sea ice\u00a0in\u00a0the Arctic and Southern oceans,\u00a0global\u00a0mountain glaciers, as well as\u00a0sea level and inland waters.<\/p>\n<p>After 15 years in space, CryoSat has one of the longest records of global ice in existence. Its measurements underpin critical climate studies\u00a0and contribute to operational\u00a0marineforecasting services.<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0new\u00a0operational\u00a0Snow Depth on Sea Ice gridded product,\u00a0which\u00a0leverages complementary radar and laser measurements\u00a0from the European Space Agency\u2019s CryoSat and NASA\u2019s ICESat-2 satellites, marks a first for\u00a0global ice\u00a0research and applications.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s part of the Cryo-TEMPO thematic product portfolio, which\u00a0delivers state-of-the-art CryoSat products to a broad range of users, particularly those new to CryoSat data.<\/p>\n<p>Seven thematic products\u00a0\u2013 Winter and Summer Sea Ice, Land Ice, Coastal and Polar Oceans, Inland Waters, and now Snow Depth on Sea Ice &#8211;\u00a0allow quick and easy access to CryoSat\u2019s unique, long-term satellite record of global ice and water.<\/p>\n<p>Find out more about the latest updates:\u00a0Insert story URL\u00a0when ready<\/p>\n<p>Access the\u00a0Cryo-TEMPO thematic\u00a0product portfolio:\u00a0https:\/\/www.cpom.ucl.ac.uk\/cryotempo\/index.php?theme=landice<\/p>\n<p>Access the whole range of CryoSat data products at CS2EO:\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t<label style=\"display: block; font-size: 0.9em; color: #8197A6; margin: 3rem 0 -1rem 0;\">Embed code<\/label><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<textarea rows=\"4\" cols=\"60\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Introducing CryoSat\u2019s incredible ice, snow and water products\" width=\"1110\" height=\"624\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fngkbWQMp2g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/textarea><\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Videos\/2025\/06\/Introducing_CryoSat_s_incredible_ice_snow_and_water_products?rand=772187\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CryoSat is\u00a0the European Space Agency\u2019s ice mission. It\u00a0measures the ice sheets covering Greenland and Antarctica, sea ice\u00a0in\u00a0the Arctic and Southern oceans,\u00a0global\u00a0mountain glaciers, as well as\u00a0sea level and inland waters. After&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":796717,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-796716","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\/796716","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=796716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/796717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=796716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=796716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=796716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}