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Description

This data set contains land ice height changes and change rates for the Antarctic ice sheet and regions around the Arctic gridded at four spatial resolutions (1 km, 10 km, 20 km, and 40 km). The data are derived from the ATLAS/ICESat-2 L3B Slope-Corrected Land Ice Height Time Series product (ATL11).

Version Description

Version 4 was derived from ATL11 Version 6 and includes the following changes: -Relax constraints for higher velocity ice sheets in Greenland -Smooth error estimates before interpolation to correct for zero error conditions reported -Correct longitude metadata extents for Antarctic regions -Remove data from cycle 1 (Quarter 4 of 2018) to avoid artifacts from previous geolocation challenges

Product Summary

Platforms
ICESat-2
Instruments
ATLAS
Spatial Extent

N: 90 S: 59 E: 180 W: -180

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N: -60 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180

Spatial Reference System(s)
Multiple EPSG codes (see User Guide)
Location
POLAR
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
GEODETIC
Temporal Extent
2019-01-01 to Present
Temporal Resolution
Varies
Concept ID
C3162334027-NSIDC_CPRD
Data State
ACTIVE
Number of Files/Granules
40
Processing Level
3
Published
Science Keywords
Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation

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.

Copy Citation

Smith, B., Jelley, B. P., Dickinson, S., Sutterley, T., Neumann, T., & Harbeck, K. (2024). ATLAS/ICESat-2 L3B Gridded Antarctic and Greenland Height Change, Version 4 [Dataset]. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/ATLAS/ATL15.004 Date Accessed: 2026-06-07

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Estimation and Attribution of Horizontal Land Motion Measured by the Greenland GNSS Network Berg, D. Longfors, Adhikari, S., Hassan, J., Steffen, R., Steffen, H., Willis, M., Khan, S. A. Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation, Ice Roughness, Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation
Multi-decadal evolution of Crary Ice Rise region, West Antarctica, amid modern ice-stream deceleration Verboncoeur, Hannah, Siegfried, Matthew Ross, Holschuh, Nicholas, Winberry, Jeremy Paul, Byrne, Duncan, Sauthoff, Wilson, Sutterley, Tyler Clark, Medley, Brooke Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation, Glacier Topography/Ice Sheet Topography, Ice Sheets, Reflectance, Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation
A New Model for Elevation Change Estimation in Antarctica from Photon-counting ICESat-2 altimetric Data Li, Rongxing, He, Youquan, Li, Hongwei, Gu, Yuanyuan, Li, Guojun, Qiao, Gang, Xie, Huan, Hao, Tong, Cui, Xiangbin Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation, Ice Roughness, Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation
Vertical Land Motion Due To Present-Day Ice Loss From Greenland's and Canada's Peripheral Glaciers Berg, D., Barletta, V. R., Hassan, J., Lippert, E. Y. H., Colgan, W., Bevis, M., Steffen, R., Khan, S. A. Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation
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