• BGS Hosted Metadata
  •   Search
  •   Map
  •  Sign in

Dark ice dynamics of the south-west Greenland Ice Sheet, 2000-2016

Metrics of dark ice extent and duration, and snowline retreat estimates, for the south-west ablation zone of the Greenland Ice Sheet, derived from MODIS satellite imagery. These metrics are provided on a ~613 m grid at annual resolution and cover the melt season, defined as June-July-August each year. All scripts used to generate the metrics are also provided, as well as the scripts which generate the plots found in the referenced publication.





Funding was provided by the NERC grant NE/M021025/1.

Simple

Date (Creation)
2018-11-05
Date (Revision)
2018-11-05
Date (Publication)
2018-11-05
Date (released)
2018-11-05
Edition

1.0

Unique resource identifier
https://doi.org/10.5285/c9079345-74a8-42af-8843-2151e6557e0f
Codespace

doi

Unique resource identifier
GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01117
Codespace

https://data.bas.ac.uk/

Unique resource identifier
NE/M021025/1
Codespace

award

Other citation details

Please cite this item as: Tedstone, A. (2019). Dark ice dynamics of the south-west Greenland Ice Sheet, 2000-2016 (Version 1.0) [Data set]. UK Polar Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, UK Research & Innovation. https://doi.org/10.5285/c9079345-74a8-42af-8843-2151e6557e0f

Credit

No credit.

Status
Completed
Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

University of Bristol

Tedstone, Andrew Author
NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre

PDCServiceDesk@bas.ac.uk

Point of contact
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
Maintenance note
Completed
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Glaciers/Ice Sheets > Ice Sheets
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Snow/Ice > Albedo
Theme
  • Albedo

  • Dark ice

  • Greenland

  • Light-absorbing impurities

Place
  • Greenland Arctic

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Elevation
  • Meteorological geographical features
Access constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
no limitations to public access
Access constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
no limitations
Use constraints
License
Other constraints
Open Government Licence v3.0
Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints

This data is governed by the NERC Data Policy: https://www.ukri.org/who-we-are/nerc/our-policies-and-standards/nerc-data-policy/

Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints

This data is governed by the NERC data policy and supplied under Open Government Licence v3.0

Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints

No restrictions apply.

Unique resource identifier
url
Codespace

url

Association Type
Cross reference
Unique resource identifier
url
Codespace

url

Association Type
dependency
Unique resource identifier
url
Codespace

url

Association Type
dependency
Unique resource identifier
url
Codespace

url

Association Type
dependency
Unique resource identifier
url
Codespace

url

Association Type
Larger work citation
Spatial representation type
Text, table
Language
English
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
  • Environment
N
S
E
W
thumbnail




Begin date
2000-06-01
End date
2016-08-31
Supplemental Information

It is recommended that careful attention be paid to the contents of any data, and that the author be contacted with any questions regarding appropriate use. If you find any errors or omissions, please report them to polardatacentre@bas.ac.uk.

Title

European Petroleum Survey Group (EPSG) Geodetic Parameter Registry

Date (Publication)
2008-11-12
Cited responsible party
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

European Petroleum Survey Group

EPSGadministrator@iogp.org

Publisher
Unique resource identifier
urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::3031
Version

6.18.3

Distributor

Distributor contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role
NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre

PDCServiceDesk@bas.ac.uk

Distributor
Distributor format
Name Version
image/tiff
application/netcdf
text/plain
Units of distribution

bytes

Transfer size
991952896
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name

WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

https://ramadda.data.bas.ac.uk/repository/entry/show?entryid=c9079345-74a8-42af-8843-2151e6557e0f

Get Data

Units of distribution

bytes

Transfer size
991952896
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name

WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

https://ramadda.data.bas.ac.uk/repository/entry/show?entryid=c9079345-74a8-42af-8843-2151e6557e0f

Get Data

Units of distribution

bytes

Transfer size
991952896
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name

WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

https://ramadda.data.bas.ac.uk/repository/entry/show?entryid=c9079345-74a8-42af-8843-2151e6557e0f

Get Data

Hierarchy level
Dataset
Statement

Methodology:

This study used MOD09GA C006 and MOD10A1 C006 data from MODIS sinusoidal grid locations h16v02 and h15v02. These data were downloaded using the tools in https://github.com/atedstone/get_modis.





Data were stitched and regridded using stitch_warp_modis_l2.py then modisgtiff2nc.py in https://github.com/atedstone/modis_tools. The template file that was used with these tools is provided in this data collection (reproject.template).





This processing chain generated daily mosaics of MODIS data that were saved to NetCDF files (not provided here) that were in turn used as inputs to the analysis scripts in https://github.com/atedstone/Tedstone2017_TheCryosphere_Scripts.

Data collection:

Instrumentation: GDAL, Python with associated libraries as detailed in script import calls.

Data quality:

See publication, scripts and metadata embedded in the datasets.

Metadata

File identifier
c9079345-74a8-42af-8843-2151e6557e0f XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Hierarchy level name

dataset

Date stamp
2018-11-05
Metadata standard name

ISO 19115 Geographic Information - Metadata

Metadata standard version

ISO 19115:2003(E)

Metadata author
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role
NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre

polardatacentre@bas.ac.uk

Point of contact
 
 

Overviews

Spatial extent

thumbnail

Keywords

Albedo Dark ice Greenland Light-absorbing impurities
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Elevation Meteorological geographical features
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords

EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Glaciers/Ice Sheets > Ice Sheets EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Snow/Ice > Albedo


Provided by

logo

Share on social sites

Access to the catalogue
Read here the full details and access to the data.




  •   About
  •   Github
  •