ESA Greenland Ice Sheet Climate Change Initiative (Greenland Ice Sheet CCI) Dataset Collection

The Greenland Ice Sheet CCI project aims to maximize the impact of ESA satellite data on climate research, by analysing data from ESA Earth Observation missions such as ERS, Envisat, CryoSat, GRACE and the new Sentinel series of satellites. Over the last decade, the Greenland Ice Sheet has shown rapid change, characterized by rapid thinning along the margins, accelerating outlet glaciers, and overall increasing mass loss. The state of the Greenland Ice Sheet is of global importance, and has consequently been included in the ESA CCI Programme as a monitored Essential Climate Variable (ECV).

The project is producing data products of the following five parameters, which are important in characterizing the Greenland Ice Sheet as an Essential Climate Variable: Surface Elevation Change (SEC) gridded data from radar altimetry; Ice Velocity (IV) gridded data from synthetic aperture radar interferometry and feature tracking; Calving Front Location (CFL) time series of marine-terminating glaciers; Grounding Line Location (GLL) time series of marine-terminating glaciers; Gravimetry Mass Balance (GMB) maps and time series.

Date (Publication): 2016-04-11T16:18:32

Date (Creation): 2016-04-11T16:18:32

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/394464f9c39445d3b6445d8e305841d7

Citation identifier: Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / 394464f9c39445d3b6445d8e305841d7

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Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
ESA Greenland Ice Sheet CCI project team		unknown	Author
Unavailable	Forsberg, Rene	Unavailable	Author
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Custodian
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Distributor
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	pointofContact
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Publisher

Maintenance and update frequency: Unknown

Update scope: Series

Keywords

Greenland
CCI
Ice Sheet

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

atmospheric conditions

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Other constraints: Under the following licence https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/licences/specific_licences/esacci_icesheets_greenland_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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Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Begin date: 1991-07-31T23:00:00

End date: 2024-05-19T00:00:00

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

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Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Distributor

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Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/394464f9c39445d3b6445d8e305841d7	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://esa-icesheets-cci.org/	Greenland Ice Sheets CCI website

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/neodc/esacci_icesheets_greenland/docs/ST-DTU-ESA-ISCCI-PUG-001_v1.2.pdf	Product User Guide

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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

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Metadata language: English

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Hierarchy level: Series

Hierarchy level name: series

Date stamp: 2025-06-18T02:27:24

Metadata standard name: UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version: 2.3

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

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