SMOS experimental products for the Cryosphere in Antarctica The CryoSMOS project, funded by European Space Agency (ESA), aims to evaluate the capability of SMOS observations in retrieving glaciological parameters or in following climatic processes in Antarctica. The study focuses on some broad areas of the continent having specific physical characteristics: the Antarctic Plateau, the ice-shelves and the coastal region; four experimental SMOS derived products have been developed: 1) estimation of internal ice-sheet temperature Contact : Giovanni Macelloni, g.macelloni@ifac.cnr.it 2) estimation of ice thickness Contact : Niels Skou, ns@space.dtu.dk 3) indicator of the origin of ice-shelves variability; Contact : Lars Kaleschke, lars.kaleschke@uni-hamburg.de 4) surface melting occurrence Contact : Ghislain Picard, ghislain.picard@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr The project consortium includes: IFAC - Institute of Applied Physic – “Nello Carrara”, CNR, Italy IGE - Institut des Geosciences de l'Environnement - France CESBIO – Centre D’Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphere National Space Institute – France DTU - Technical University of Denmark – Denmark UHAM – University of Hamburg, Germany More information at: http://www.ifac.cnr.it/cryosmos/