The supplementary information for the paper Burgard, C., Notz, D., Pedersen, L. T., and Tonboe, R. T.: The Arctic Ocean Observation Operator for 6.9 GHz (ARC3O) – Part 1: How to obtain sea ice brightness temperatures at 6.9 GHz from climate model output, The Cryosphere, 14, 2369–2386, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2369-2020, 2020. can be found on https://github.com/ClimateClara/scripts_paper_arc3o_part1. Signed: Clara Burgard, 21.08.2020