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ESA Greenland Ice Sheet Climate Change Initiative (Greenland_Ice_Sheet_cci): Greenland Surface Elevation Change from Cryosat-2, v2.2

This data set is part of the ESA Greenland Ice sheet CCI project. The data set provides surface elevation changes (SEC) for the Greenland Ice sheet derived from Cryosat 2 satellite radar altimetry, for the time period between 2010 and 2017.

The surface elevation change data are provided as 2-year means (2011-2012, 2012-2013, 2013-2014, 2014-2015, 2015-2016, and 2016-2017), and five-year means are also provided (2011-2015, 2012-2016, 2013-2017), along with their associated errors. Data are provided in both NetCDF and gridded ASCII format, as well as png plots.



The algorithm used to devive the product is described in the paper “Implications of changing scattering properties on the Greenland ice sheet volume change from Cryosat-2 altimetry” by S.B. Simonsen and L.S. Sørensen, Remote Sensing of the Environment, 190,pp.207-216, doi:10.1016/j.rse.2016.12.012

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Date (Publication)
2018-11-22T11:59:39
Date (Creation)
2018-11-22T11:59:39
Citation identifier
https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/41e9783d4caa447b99f653c065805579
Citation identifier
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / 41e9783d4caa447b99f653c065805579
Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

ESA Greenland Ice Sheet CCI project team

unknown

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
Not planned
Update scope
Dataset
Keywords
  • ice sheets
  • ice sheets
  • CryoSat-2
  • SIRAL
  • Greenland Ice Sheet

  • ESA

  • CCI

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_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
Topic category
  • Imagery base maps earth cover
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Begin date
2011-01-01T00:00:00
End date
2017-12-31T23:59:59
Unique resource identifier
WGS 84
Distribution format
Name Version

Contains three different types of data files:

1) png plots of the surface elevation changes.

2) gridded ASCII files of the surface elevation changes and their associated errors

3) NetCDF files containing the surface elevation changes and their associated errors

Distributor contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)

support@ceda.ac.uk

Distributor
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/41e9783d4caa447b99f653c065805579

CEDA Data Catalogue Page

OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
http://data.ceda.ac.uk/neodc/esacci/ice_sheets_greenland/data/greenland_surface_elevation_change/cryosat2/v2.2/

DOWNLOAD

OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
http://www.esa-icesheets-greenland-cci.org/?q=webfm_send/165

Product User Guide

OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
http://data.ceda.ac.uk/neodc/esacci/ice_sheets_greenland/metadata/sample_images/SEC_cryosat2_v2.2_quicklook.png

Sample Image

OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
https://climate.esa.int/projects/ice-sheets-greenland/

ESA CCI Greenland Ice Sheet project website

OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
https://climate.esa.int/

ESA Climate Change Initiative website

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

Data were processed by the ESA CCI Greenland Ice Sheet project team and supplied to CEDA in the context of the ESA CCI Open Data Portal Project.

Metadata

File identifier
41e9783d4caa447b99f653c065805579 XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Parent identifier
ESA Greenland Ice Sheet Climate Change Initiative (Greenland Ice Sheet CCI) Dataset Collection

394464f9c39445d3b6445d8e305841d7

Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2026-02-08T03:17:56
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version

2.3

Metadata author
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)

support@ceda.ac.uk

Point of contact
 
 

Overviews

Spatial extent

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Keywords

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

orthoimagery


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