ESA Greenland Ice Sheet Climate Change Initiative (Greenland_Ice_Sheet_cci): Greenland Gravimetric Mass Balance from GRACE data (CSR RL06), derived by TU Dresden, v1.3

This dataset provides the Gravitational Mass Balance (GMB) product derived from gravimetry data from the GRACE satellite instrument, by TU Dresden. The data consists of two products: a mass change time series for the entire Greenland Ice Sheet and different drainage basins for the period April 2002 to August 2016; and mass trend grids for different 5-year periods between 2003 and 2016. This version (1.3) is derived from GRACE monthly solutions from the CSR RL06 product.



The mass change time series contains the mass change (with respect to a chosen reference month) for all of the Greenland Ice Sheet and each individual drainage basin. For each month (defined by a decimal year) a mass change in Gt and its associated error (also in Gt) is provided. The mass trend grid product is given in units of mm water equivalent per year.



Mass balance is an important variable to understand glacial thinning and ablation rates to enable mapping glacier area change. The time series allows the longer term comparison of trends whereas the mass trend grids provide a yearly snapshot which can be further analysed and compared across the data set.



Basin definitions and further data descriptions can be found in the Algorithm Theoretical Baseline Document (ST-DTU-ESA-GISCCI-ATBD-001_v3.1.pdf) and Product Specification Document (ST-DTU-ESA-GISCCI-PSD_v2.2.pdf) which are provided on the Greenland Ice Sheet CCI project website. This GMB product has been produced by TU Dresden for comparison with the existing GMB product derived by DTU Space.



Please cite the dataset as follows: Groh, A., & Horwath, M. (2016). The method of tailored sensitivity kernels for GRACE mass change estimates. Geophysical Research Abstracts, 18, EGU2016-12065

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Date (Publication)
2018-11-28T17:03:31
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2018-11-28T17:03:31
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https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/5970b33c92ef444793fb6d7e54d1230e
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Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / 5970b33c92ef444793fb6d7e54d1230e
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ESA Greenland Ice Sheet CCI project team

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Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)

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Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)

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Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)

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Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)

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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

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Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.
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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.
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English
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Begin date
2002-03-31T23:00:00
End date
2016-08-31T22:59:59
Unique resource identifier
WGS 84
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Mass trend grids are in NetCDF format.

Time series are in ASCII and png format.
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Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)

support@ceda.ac.uk

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https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/5970b33c92ef444793fb6d7e54d1230e

CEDA Data Catalogue Page
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http://data.ceda.ac.uk/neodc/esacci/ice_sheets_greenland/data/greenland_gravimetric_mass_balance/TU_Dresden/v1.3/

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http://esa-icesheets-greenland-cci.org/index.php?q=webfm_send/179

Product Specification Document (ST-DTU-ESA-GISCCI-PSD_v2.2.pdf)
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http://esa-icesheets-greenland-cci.org/index.php?q=webfm_send/178

Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document (ST-DTU-ESA-GISCCI-ATBD-001_v3.1.pdf
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http://www.esa-icesheets-cci.org/

The ESA Greenland Ice Sheet CCI Project
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http://www.esa-icesheets-greenland-cci.org/index.php?q=webfm_send/165

Product User Guide
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http://data.ceda.ac.uk/neodc/esacci/ice_sheets_greenland/metadata/sample_images/gmb_tudresden_v1_3_quicklook.png

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https://climate.esa.int/

ESA Climate Change Initiative website
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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.

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5970b33c92ef444793fb6d7e54d1230e XML
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English
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ESA Greenland Ice Sheet Climate Change Initiative (Greenland Ice Sheet CCI) Dataset Collection

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Dataset
Date stamp
2026-01-15T03:15:51
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version

2.3
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Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)

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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

orthoimagery


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