The primary science products of CryoRad are:
- 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 surface salinity (SSS) that will eliminate the high uncertainties in cold waters of current L-band spaceborne radiometers;
- 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.