ESA Greenland Ice Sheet Climate Change Initiative (Greenland_Ice_Sheet_cci): Greenland Calving Front Locations, v1.1

The data set provides calving front locations of major outlet glaciers of the Greenland Ice Sheet from SAR data from various sensors, produced as part of the ESA Greenland Ice Sheets Climate Change Initiative (CCI) project. Version 1.1 of the dataset has been updated to include information from Sentinel 1 data.

The Calving Front Location (CFL) of outlet glaciers from ice sheets is a basic parameter for ice dynamic modelling, for computing the mass fluxes at the calving gate, and for mapping glacier area change. From the ice velocity at the calving front and the time sequence of Calving Front Locations the iceberg calving rate can be computed which is of relevance for estimating the export of ice mass to the ocean.

The calving front location has been derived by manual delineation based on SAR or optical satellite data. The CFL product is a collection of ESRI shapefile in latitude and longitude, on WGS84 projection. The basic data are vector line files (not polygons).

Date (Publication): 2016-04-11T15:58:34

Date (Creation): 2016-04-11T15:58:34

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/70eae17a47e64c8597defcb0ed155dea

Citation identifier: Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / 70eae17a47e64c8597defcb0ed155dea

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Unavailable	Nagler, Thomas	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Hetzenecker, Markus	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Blumthaler, Ursula	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: Dataset

Keywords

Greenland Ice Sheet
ESA
CCI

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

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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

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Imagery base maps earth cover

Begin date: 1992-01-01T00:00:00

End date: 2015-12-31T00:00:00

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

Distribution format

Name	Version
Data are Esri Shape file formatted. (See greenland_cfl_v1_1_meta.pdf for further information)

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/70eae17a47e64c8597defcb0ed155dea	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/neodc/esacci/ice_sheets_greenland/data/greenland_calving_front_locations/v1.1	DOWNLOAD

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://www.esa-icesheets-cci.org/	The ESA Greenland Ice Sheet CCI Project

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/neodc/esacci/ice_sheets_greenland/docs/greenland_cfl_v1_1_meta.pdf	Greenland Calving Front Locations Dataset Metadata pdf

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/neodc/esacci/ice_sheets_greenland/metadata/sample_images/Docker-Smith_landsat.png	Sample Image

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://www.esa-icesheets-greenland-cci.org/?q=webfm_send/121	Product User Guide

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: 70eae17a47e64c8597defcb0ed155dea XML

Metadata language: English

Character set: UTF8

Parent identifier: ESA Greenland Ice Sheet Climate Change Initiative (Greenland Ice Sheet CCI) Dataset Collection
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Hierarchy level: Dataset

Date stamp: 2026-02-09T03:07:01

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

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