The primary science products of CryoRad are:
- the sea surface salinity (SSS) that will eliminate the high uncertainties in cold waters of current L-band spaceborne radiometers;
- the ice sheet and shelf temperature profile of Antarctica and Greenland from the top to the bottom, never previously measured from space with sufficient accuracy and available only from sparse borehole sites;
- the sea ice thickness by improving current estimations in the range 0.5-1 m and the sea ice salinity, that has never previously been obtained from space, to improve estimates of sea ice freshwater fluxes.
Due to the penetration characteristics of low electromagnetic frequencies used, CryoRad will also provide other new information on:
- the freeze/thaw state of permafrost
- water content of soil
- vegetation over land