ESA Antarctic Ice Sheet Climate Change Initiative (Antarctic_Ice_Sheet_cci): Antarctic Ice Sheet monthly Gravimetric Mass Balance gridded product, v3.0, 2002 - 2020

This dataset contains the Gravimetric Mass Balance (GMB) gridded product for the Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS), generated by TU Dresden as part of the ESA Antarctic Ice Sheet Climate Change Initiatve (Antarctic_Ice_Sheet_cci).

The Gravimetric Mass Balance (GMB) product for the Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS) is based on monthly snapshots of the Earth’s gravity field provided by the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) and its follow-on satellite mission (GRACE-FO). The product relies on monthly gravity field solutions (L2) of release 06 generated at the Center for Space Research (University of Texas at Austin) and spans the period from April 2002 through July 2020. The GMB product covers the full GRACE mission period (April 2002 - June 2017) and is extended by means of GRACE-FO data starting from June 2018, thus including 187 monthly solutions. The mass change estimation is based on the tailored sensitivity kernel approach developed at TU Dresden. (Groh & Horwath, 2021)

The GMB gridded product comprises time series of ice mass changes for cells of polar-stereographic grid with a sampling of 50x50 km² covering the entire AIS. A GMB basin product is also available as a separate dataset.

Groh, A. & Horwath, M. (2021). Antarctic Ice Mass Change Products from GRACE/GRACE-FO Using Tailored Sensitivity Kernels. Remote Sens., 13(9), 1736. doi:10.3390/rs13091736

Date (Publication): 2021-06-17T14:09:06

Date (Creation): 2021-06-17T14:09:06

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/36dae49c76f845a18062fa96599be719

Citation identifier: NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis / 36dae49c76f845a18062fa96599be719

Citation identifier: doi / 10.5285/36dae49c76f845a18062fa96599be719

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Unavailable	Groh, Andreas	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Horwath, Martin	Unavailable	Author
NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis		support@ceda.ac.uk	Custodian
NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis		support@ceda.ac.uk	Distributor
NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis		support@ceda.ac.uk	pointofContact
CCI Open Data Portal		support@ceda.ac.uk	pointofContact
NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis		support@ceda.ac.uk	Publisher

Maintenance and update frequency: Not planned

Update scope: Dataset

Keywords

GRACE
ESA CCI
Antarctica
Ice Sheet Mass Balance
GRACE
GRACE-FO

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

orthoimagery

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.

Use constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: Under the following licence https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/licences/specific_licences/esacci_icesheets_antarctic_terms_and_conditions.pdf, appropriate use of these data may fall under any use. This message is intended as guidance, always read the full licence. When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.

Spatial representation type: Grid

Language: English

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Imagery base maps earth cover

Begin date: 2002-04-18T00:00:00

End date: 2020-07-16T23:59:59

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

Distribution format

Name	Version
Data are in NetCDF format

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis		support@ceda.ac.uk	Distributor

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/36dae49c76f845a18062fa96599be719	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/neodc/esacci/ice_sheets_antarctica/data/gravimetric_mass_balance/gridded/v3.0/	DOWNLOAD

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://climate.esa.int/projects/ice-sheets-antarctic/key-documents/	ESA Antarctic Ice Sheet CCI key documents

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://climate.esa.int/projects/ice-sheets/antarctic/	ESA Antarctic Ice Sheets CCI project webpage

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://climate.esa.int	ESA Climate Change Initiative website

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13091736	Groh, A. & Horwath, M. (2021). Antarctic Ice Mass Change Products from GRACE/GRACE-FO Using Tailored Sensitivity Kernels. Remote Sens., 13(9), 1736. doi:10.3390/rs13091736

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://climate.esa.int/documents/1243/ST-UL-ESA-AISCCI-PUG-0001.pdf	Product User Guide

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Conformance result

Title: Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Statement: The data were generated by TU Dresden within the ESA Antarctic Ice Sheet CCI project and deposited at the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) for archiving and distribution via the CCI Open Data Portal.

Metadata

File identifier: 36dae49c76f845a18062fa96599be719 XML

Metadata language: English

Character set: UTF8

Parent identifier: ESA Antarctic Ice Sheet Climate Change Initiative (Antarctic_Ice_Sheet_cci) Dataset Collection
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Hierarchy level: Dataset

Date stamp: 2026-02-16T03:20:44

Metadata standard name: UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version: 2.3

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis		support@ceda.ac.uk	Point of contact

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