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ESA Greenland Ice Sheet Climate Change Initiative (Greenland_Ice_Sheet_cci): Greenland Ice Velocity Map 2015, v1.0

Latest Data Update: 2016-04-15
Status: Superseded
Online Status: ONLINE
Publication State: Published
Publication Date: 2016-04-11
Download Stats: last 12 months
Dataset Size: 8 Files | 417MB
This dataset has been superseded. See Latest Version here
Abstract

This dataset is part of the ESA Greenland Ice Sheet Climate Change Initiative (CCI) project, and provides components of the ice velocity and the magnitude of the velocity for the Greenland Ice Sheet.

The dataset is derived from Interferometric Wide Swath SAR data from the Sentinel-1 satellite, acquired in the period from the 1st November 2014 to the 1st December 2015. The ocean mask is based on the GIMP Ocean mask (Version 2.0; Howat et al. 2014), but calving fronts of marine terminating glaciers have been updated using Landsat-8 data acquired from May to August 2015.

Citable as:  Hetzenecker, M.; Nagler, T.; Wuite, J. (2016): ESA Greenland Ice Sheet Climate Change Initiative (Greenland_Ice_Sheet_cci): Greenland Ice Velocity Map 2015, v1.0. Centre for Environmental Data Analysis, date of citation. https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/7ae7e43347d34308960c19313367e59c
Abbreviation: Not defined
Keywords: Greenland Ice Sheet, ESA, CCI

Details

Previous Info:

2016-12-14 A later version of this data product is now available from http://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/82e4ede59fe746ba810009d9a30e0153 2016-12-14 A later version of this data product is now available from http://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/82e4ede59fe746ba810009d9a30e0153

Previously used record identifiers:
No related previous identifiers.
Access rules:
Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.
Use of these data is covered by the following licence: http://licences.ceda.ac.uk/image/data_access_condition/esacci_icesheets_greenland_terms_and_conditions.pdf. When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.
Data lineage:

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.
File Format:
The data are given in 2 formats: single band GEOTIFF format in 5 separate files, and NetCDF format as a single file with 4 bands corresponding to vx,vy,vz,vv,nr.

Related Documents

 The ESA Greenland Ice Sheet CCI Project
 ESA Climate Change Initiative website
 Nagler, T., Rott, H., Hetzenecker, M., Wuite, J., Potin, P. (2015): The Sentinel-1 Mission: New Opportunities for Ice Sheet Observations. Remote Sensing, 2015, 7, 9371-9389, doi:10.3390/rs70709371.
 Ice Velocity Maps Dataset Metadata pdf
 Product User Guide

Process overview

  • var_id: crs
  • units: m/day
  • var_id: land_ice_surface_easting_velocity
  • units: m/day
  • var_id: land_ice_surface_northing_velocity
  • units: m/day
  • var_id: land_ice_surface_velocity_magnitude
  • units: m/day
  • var_id: land_ice_surface_vertical_velocity
  • units: m
  • var_id: x
  • standard_name: projection_x_coordinate
  • long_name: x coordinate of projection
  • names: projection_x_coordinate, x coordinate of projection
  • units: m
  • var_id: y
  • standard_name: projection_y_coordinate
  • long_name: y coordinate of projection
  • names: projection_y_coordinate, y coordinate of projection

Co-ordinate Variables

Coverage
Temporal Range
Start time:
2014-11-01T00:00:00
End time:
2015-12-01T00:00:00
Geographic Extent

 
90.0000°
  
-80.0000°
  
-10.0000°
 
60.0000°
  
Related parties
Authors (3)
Publishers (1)