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Description

This data set (ATL10) contains estimates of sea ice freeboard, calculated using three different approaches. Sea ice leads used to establish the reference sea surface and descriptive statistics used in the height estimates are also provided. The data were acquired by the Advanced Topographic Laser Altimeter System (ATLAS) instrument on board the Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) observatory.

Version Description

Initial release

Product Summary

Platforms
ICESat-2
Instruments
ATLAS
Spatial Extent

N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180

Spatial Reference System(s)
WGS 84 (EPSG:4326)
Location
NORTHERN HEMISPHERE ,
SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
ORBIT
Temporal Extent
2018-10-14 to 2019-01-07
Temporal Resolution
91 Day
Concept ID
C4115898985-NSIDC_CPRD
Data State
DEPRECATED
Number of Files/Granules
0
Processing Level
3
Published
Science Keywords
Freeboard

Citation

Citation is critically important for dataset documentation and discovery. This dataset is openly shared, without restriction, in accordance with the EOSDIS Data Use and Citation Guidance.

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Kwok, R., Cunningham, G., Markus, T., Hancock, D., Morison, J., Palm, S., Farrell, S., Ivanoff, A., Wimert, J., & the ICESat-2 Science Team. (2019). ATLAS/ICESat-2 L3A Sea Ice Freeboard, Version 1 [Dataset]. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/ATLAS/ATL10.001 Date Accessed: 2026-09-14

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A Novel Algorithm for Ice-Water Discrimination in Large Lakes Using Peter, Isabella, Anderson, Eric J., Siegfried, Matthew R., Kurtz, Nathan T. Surface Water Processes/Measurements, Freeboard
Snow depth product over Antarctic sea ice from 2002 to 2020 using multisource passive microwave radiometers Shen, Xiaoyi, Ke, Chang-Qing, Li, Haili Brightness Temperature, Sea Ice Concentration, Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation, Ice Roughness, Brightness Temperature, Freeboard
Winter Arctic sea ice thickness from ICESat2 freeboards Petty, Alek A., Kurtz, Nathan T., Kwok, Ron, Markus, Thorsten, Neumann, Thomas A. Freeboard, Ice Depth/Thickness, Ice Roughness, Sea Ice Concentration, Snow Density, Snow Depth, Snow Depth, Sea Ice Elevation, Terrain Elevation
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