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Thin ice (&lt;20 cm) is detected based on the classification of the H-polarization 89\u201336-GHz gradient ratio (GR8936H) and the 36-GHz polarization ratio (PR36) signatures with a linear discriminant analysis (LDA) and thick ice restoration with GR3610H. The brightness temperature (TB) data are corrected for the atmospheric effects following an EUMETSAT OSI SAF correction method in sea ice concentration retrieval algorithms. The thin ice detection algorithms were trained and validated using MODIS ice thickness charts covering the Barents and Kara Seas. Thin ice detection is applied to swath TB datasets and the swath charts are compiled into a daily thin ice chart using 10 km pixel size for AMSR2 and 20 km for MWRI. On average, the likelihood of misclassifying thick ice as thin in the ATIDA2 daily charts is 7.0% and 42% for reverse misclassification. For the MWRI chart, these accuracy figures are 4% and 53%. A comparison of the MWRI chart to the AMSR2 chart showed a very high match (98%) for the thick ice class with SIC &gt; 90% but only a 53% match for the thin ice class. These accuracy disagreements are due to the much coarser resolution of MWRI, which gives larger spatial averaging of TB signatures, and thus, less detection of thin ice. The comparison of the AMSR2 and MWRI charts with the SMOS sea ice thickness chart showed a rough match in the thin ice versus thick ice classification. 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