National Snow & Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center

nasa-nsidcdaac-0223

Elevation Change of the Southern Greenland Ice Sheet from 1978-88

Southern Greenland ice sheet elevation change estimates are derived from SEASAT and GEOSAT radar altimetry data from 1978 to 1988. Data are confined to 61-72 deg N, 30-50 deg W, above 1700 m elevation. The addition of GEOSAT Geodetic Mission (GM) data results in twice as many crossover points and 50% greater coverage than previous studies. Coverage above 2000 m elevation is improved to 90%, and about 75% of the area between 1700 m and 2000 m is now covered. Data are in ASCII text format, available via FTP, and consist of elevation change rate (dH/dt, cm/year) and corresponding error estimates in 50 km grid cells.

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http://nsidc.org/data/NSIDC-0223

Identified by : NSIDC-0223

This dataset was released on January 01, 2001.

The time range for this dataset is January 01, 1978 to December 31, 1988.

The spatial range for this dataset is 61° to 72° latitude, and -52° to -30° longitude. map (center)

DOI : 10.5067/10JHXYLCEFVX
Also known as :

• dataset oai:nsidc/NSIDC-0223 (nsidc lexicon)