National Snow & Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center

nasa-nsidcdaac-glah08

GLAS/ICESat L2 Global Planetary Boundary Layer and Elevated Aerosol Layer Heights (HDF5)

GLAH08 Level-2 planetary boundary layer (PBL) and elevated aerosol layer heights data contains PBL heights, ground detection heights, and top and bottom heights of elevated aerosols from -1.5 km to 20.5 km (4 sec sampling rate) and from 20.5 km to 41 km (20 sec sampling rate). Each data granule has an associated browse product.

http://nsidc.org/data/GLAH08

Identified by : GLAH08

This dataset was released on March 04, 2013.

The time range for this dataset is February 20, 2003 to October 11, 2009.

The spatial range for this dataset is -86° to 86° latitude, and -180° to 180° longitude. map (center)

This dataset uses data from an instance of the geoscience-laser-altimeter-system instrument on the ice-cloud-and-land-elevation-satellite platform.
DOI : 10.5067/ICESAT/GLAS/DATA201
Also known as :

• dataset oai:nsidc/GLAH08 (nsidc lexicon)