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Description

ATL20 contains daily and monthly gridded estimates of sea ice freeboard, derived from ATLAS/ICESat-2 L3A Sea Ice Freeboard (ATL10) along-track freeboard estimates.

Version Description

Updated the attribute grid mapping and coordinate reference system variable to improve NetCDF compliance.

Product Summary

Platforms
ICESat-2
Instruments
ATLAS
Spatial Extent

N: 89 S: 37 E: 180 W: -180

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N: -53 S: -79 E: 180 W: -180

Spatial Resolution
25 Kilometers x 25 Kilometers
Spatial Reference System(s)
Multiple EPSG codes (see User Guide)
Location
POLAR
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
CARTESIAN
Temporal Extent
2018-10-14 to Present
Temporal Resolution
Varies
Concept ID
C3825009052-NSIDC_CPRD
Data State
ACTIVE
Number of Files/Granules
182
Processing Level
3
Published
Science Keywords
Freeboard

Citation

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Petty, A., Kwok, R., Bagnardi, M., Ivanoff, A., Kurtz, N., Lee, J., Wimert, J., & Hancock, D. (2025). ATLAS/ICESat-2 L3B Daily and Monthly Gridded Sea Ice Freeboard, Version 5 [Dataset]. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/ATLAS/ATL20.005 Date Accessed: 2026-09-18

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Anticipating CRISTAL: an exploration of multi-frequency satellite altimeter snow depth estimates over Arctic sea ice, 20182023 Landy, Jack C., de Rijke-Thomas, Claude, Nab, Carmen, Lawrence, Isobel, Glissenaar, Isolde A., Mallett, Robbie D. C., Fredensborg Hansen, Renee M., Petty, Alek, Tsamados, Michel, Macfarlane, Amy R., Braakmann-Folgmann, Anne Freeboard, Sea Ice Elevation
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