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MEaSUREs ITS_LIVE Greenland Monthly 120 m Ice Sheet Extent Masks, 1972-2022 V001

Metadata Updated: August 27, 2024

This ITS_LIVE data set, part of the Making Earth System Data Records for Use in Research Environments (MEaSUREs) Program, contains monthly, 120 m resolution ice masks for the Greenland Ice Sheet from 1972 to 2022. The presence of ice was determined from 237,556 manually and AI-derived terminus positions acquired by satellite optical and radar observations. Months with no observations have been gap-filled using past and future observations of terminus positions and advance rates constrained by the average flow speed of the glacier.

Animations are also available for 206 catchments that show how the ice front positions have changed over the course of the time series and can be used as a quality control check.

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Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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Dates

Metadata Created Date August 27, 2024
Metadata Updated Date August 27, 2024

Metadata Source

Harvested from NASA Data.json

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date August 27, 2024
Metadata Updated Date August 27, 2024
Publisher NASA NSIDC DAAC
Maintainer
Identifier C3177912929-NSIDC_ECS
Data First Published 1972-09-15
Language en-US
Data Last Modified 2022-02-15
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Public Access Level public
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Citation MEaSUREs ITS_LIVE Greenland Monthly 120 m Ice Sheet Extent Masks, 1972-2022 V001. Version 1. Archived by National Aeronautics and Space Administration, U.S. Government, NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/579TO87M7IZB.
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Program Code 026:001
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Temporal 1972-09-15T00:00:00Z/2022-02-15T23:59:59.999Z

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