Provision of new observational products for initialization (SMOS+CRYOSAT2 thickness and along track sea ice concentration)

In order to take advantage of the higher temporal resolution of swath based sea ice products with accurate timestamps Level 2 data will be provided to the model partners for assimilation and validation purposes The actual production of the L2 data will be done in WPs 27First test version at KO12 and production version at KO24