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IceBridge L4 Sea Ice Freeboard, Snow Depth, and Thickness V001

Creator: NSIDC_CPRD
Keywords: Freeboard,Ice Depth/Thickness,Ice Roughness,Sea Ice Elevation,Snow Depth

IDCSI4

Version

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5067/G519SHCKWQV6

Citation

Center/Project

National Snow and Ice Data Center DAAC (NSIDC DAAC)

Data at a Glance

Data Format

XML, CSV

Spatial Extent

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

N: -53 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180

Location

ANTARCTICA ,

GREENLAND

Temporal Extent

2009-03-19 to 2013-04-25

Temporal Resolution

Varies

Coordinate System

CARTESIAN

Granule Spatial Representation

GEODETIC

Description

This data set contains derived geophysical data products including sea ice freeboard, snow depth, and sea ice thickness measurements in Greenland and Antarctica retrieved from IceBridge Snow Radar, Digital Mapping System (DMS), Continuous Airborne Mapping By Optical Translator (CAMBOT), and Airborne Topographic Mapper (ATM) data sets. The data were collected as part of Operation IceBridge funded campaigns.

Version Description

Initial release

Product Summary

Platforms

C-130 ,

NASA DC-8 ,

P-3B

Instruments

ATM ,

CAMBOT ,

DMS ,

SNOW RADAR

Projects

2009_AN_NASA ,

2009_GR_NASA ,

2010_AN_NASA ,

2010_GR_NASA ,

2011_AN_NASA ,

2011_GR_NASA ,

2012_AN_NASA ,

2012_GR_NASA ,

2013_AN_NASA ,

2013_GR_NASA ,

2014_AN_NASA ,

2014_GR_NASA ,

2015_AN_NASA ,

2015_GR_NASA ,

OIB

Spatial Extent

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

N: -53 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180

Spatial Reference System(s)

WGS 84 (EPSG:4326)

Location

ANTARCTICA ,

GREENLAND

Coordinate System

CARTESIAN

Granule Spatial Representation

GEODETIC

Temporal Extent

2009-03-19 to 2013-04-25

Temporal Resolution

Varies

Concept ID

C3189944203-NSIDC_CPRD

Data State

COMPLETE

Number of Files/Granules

Processing Level

Published

2015-07-01

Updated

2015-08-17

Science Keywords

Freeboard ,

Ice Depth/Thickness ,

Ice Roughness ,

Sea Ice Elevation ,

Snow Depth

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Kurtz, N., Studinger, M., Harbeck, J., Onana, V.-D.-P., & Yi, D. (2015). IceBridge L4 Sea Ice Freeboard, Snow Depth, and Thickness, Version 1 [Dataset]. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/G519SHCKWQV6 Date Accessed: 2026-10-23

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Snow effects on altimeter waveforms over sea ice in the Weddell Sea-Part	Zhou, Lu, Skourup, Henriette, Stroeve, Julienne, Kacimi, Sahra, Arndt, Stefanie, Zhu, Weixin, Petty, Alek, Huang, Lanqing, Xu, Shiming	2026	IceBridge L4 Sea Ice Freeboard, Snow Depth, and Thickness V001 IceBridge DMS L1B Geolocated and Orthorectified Images V001 IceBridge ATM L1B Elevation and Return Strength V002 ATLAS/ICESat-2 L3A Sea Ice Height V007 IceBridge Snow Radar L1B Geolocated Radar Echo Strength Profiles V002
A snow depth model for Arctic sea ice from ICESat-2 and CryoSat-2 freeboards.	Liu, Xin, Huang, Ziqian, Yin, Gaoying, Li, Hui, Gao, Jinggui, Guo, Jinyun	2026	IceBridge L4 Sea Ice Freeboard, Snow Depth, and Thickness V001 CryoSat-2 Level-4 Sea Ice Elevation, Freeboard, and Thickness V001 ATLAS/ICESat-2 L3B Daily and Monthly Gridded Sea Ice Freeboard V001
A multi-frequency altimetry snow depth product over Arctic sea ice	Carret, Alice, Fleury, Sara, Di Bella, Alessandro, Landy, Jack, Lawrence, Isobel, Kurtz, Nathan, Laforge, Antoine, Bouffard, Jerome, Parrinello, Tommaso	2025	IceBridge L4 Sea Ice Freeboard, Snow Depth, and Thickness V001
Parameterization, sensitivity, and uncertainty of 1-D thermodynamic thin-ice thickness retrieval	Zhang, Tianyu, Shokr, Mohammed, Zhang, Zhida, Hui, Fengming, Cheng, Xiao, Zhang, Zhilun, Zhao, Jiechen, Mi, Chunlei	2024	IceBridge L4 Sea Ice Freeboard, Snow Depth, and Thickness V001 MODIS/Terra Sea Ice Extent 5-Min L2 Swath 1km V061
Quantifying the influence of snow over sea ice morphology on L-band passive microwave satellite observations in the Southern Ocean	Zhou, Lu, Stroeve, Julienne, Nandan, Vishnu, Willatt, Rosemary, Xu, Shiming, Zhu, Weixin, Kacimi, Sahra, Arndt, Stefanie, Yang, Zifan	2024	IceBridge L4 Sea Ice Freeboard, Snow Depth, and Thickness V001 ALOS PALSAR Level 1.5 Product AMSR-E/Aqua Daily L3 12.5 km Brightness Temperature, Sea Ice Concentration, & Snow Depth Polar Grids V004
A long-term proxy for sea ice thickness in the Canadian Arctic: 1996-2020	Glissenaar, Isolde A., Landy, Jack C., Babb, David G., Dawson, Geoffrey J., Howell, Stephen E. L.	2023	IceBridge L4 Sea Ice Freeboard, Snow Depth, and Thickness V001
Bivariate sea-ice assimilation for global-ocean analysisreanalysis	Cipollone, Andrea, Banerjee, Deep Sankar, Iovino, Doroteaciro, Aydogdu, Ali, Masina, Simona	2023	IceBridge L4 Sea Ice Freeboard, Snow Depth, and Thickness V001
The estimation of the total freeboard of Arctic sea ice in winter using passive microwave satellite measurements	Kim, Jong-Min, Sohn, Byung-Ju, Lee, Sang-Moo, Shi, Hoyeon, Kwon, Young-Joo, Kim, Sang-Woo, Kim, Hyun-Cheol	2022	IceBridge L4 Sea Ice Freeboard, Snow Depth, and Thickness V001 ATLAS/ICESat-2 L3A Sea Ice Height V001 ATLAS/ICESat-2 L3A Sea Ice Freeboard V002
Arctic sea ice freeboard estimation and variations from Operation IceBridge	Zhang, Shengkai, Geng, Tong, Zhu, Chaohui, Li, Jiaxing, Li, Xiao, Zhu, Benxin, Liu, Laixing, Xiao, Feng	2022	IceBridge ATM L1B Elevation and Return Strength V002 IceBridge L4 Sea Ice Freeboard, Snow Depth, and Thickness V001 IceBridge ATM L2 Icessn Elevation, Slope, and Roughness V002 IceBridge DMS L1B Geolocated and Orthorectified Images V001 ATLAS/ICESat-2 L3A Sea Ice Freeboard V005
Retrieval of Snow Depth on Arctic Sea Ice from the FY3B/MWRI	Li, Lele, Chen, Haihua, Guan, Lei	2021	IceBridge L4 Sea Ice Freeboard, Snow Depth, and Thickness V001 AMSR-E/AMSR2 Unified L3 Daily 12.5 km Brightness Temperatures, Sea Ice Concentration, Motion & Snow Depth Polar Grids V001 AMSR-E/Aqua Daily L3 12.5 km Brightness Temperature, Sea Ice Concentration, & Snow Depth Polar Grids V004
Impacts of snow data and processing methods on the interpretation of	Glissenaar, Isolde A., Landy, Jack C., Petty, Alek A., Kurtz, Nathan T., Stroeve, Julienne C.	2021	IceBridge L4 Sea Ice Freeboard, Snow Depth, and Thickness V001 GLAS/ICESat L2 Sea Ice Altimetry Data (HDF5) V034 DMSP SSM/I-SSMIS Pathfinder Daily EASE-Grid Brightness Temperatures V002 ATLAS/ICESat-2 L3A Sea Ice Freeboard V004
The Scientific Legacy of NASA's Operation IceBridge	MacGregor, Joseph A., Boisvert, Linette N., Medley, Brooke, Petty, Alek A., Harbeck, Jeremy P., Bell, Robin E., Blair, J. Bryan, BlanchardWrigglesworth, Edward, Buckley, Ellen M., Christoffersen, Michael S., Cochran, James R., Csatho, Beata M., De Marco, Eugenia L., Dominguez, RoseAnne T., Fahnestock, Mark A., Farrell, Sinead L., Gogineni, S. Prasad, Greenbaum, Jamin S., Hansen, Christy M., Hofton, Michelle A., Holt, John W., Jezek, Kenneth C., Koenig, Lora S., Kurtz, Nathan T., Kwok, Ronald, Larsen, Christopher F., Leuschen, Carlton J., Locke, Caitlin D., Manizade, Serdar S., Martin, Seelye, Neumann, Thomas A., Nowicki, Sophie M.J., Paden, John D., RichterMenge, Jacqueline A., Rignot, Eric J., RodriguezMorales, Fernando, Siegfried, Matthew R., Smith, Benjamin E., Sonntag, John G., Studinger, Michael, Tinto, Kirsty J., Truffer, Martin, Wagner, Thomas P., Woods, John E., Young, Duncan A., Yungel, James K.	2021	IceBridge L4 Sea Ice Freeboard, Snow Depth, and Thickness V001
The Polar System Analysis Package (Ver. 1 Specifications)	Roberts, Andrew	2021	IceBridge L4 Sea Ice Freeboard, Snow Depth, and Thickness V001
A Preliminary Investigation of Arctic Sea Ice Negative Freeboard from in-situ Observations and Radar Altimetry	Li, Shutong, Dou, Tingfeng, Xiao, Cunde	2021	IceBridge L4 Sea Ice Freeboard, Snow Depth, and Thickness V001 CryoSat-2 Level-4 Sea Ice Elevation, Freeboard, and Thickness V001
Multi-peak retracking of CryoSat-2 SARIn waveforms over Arctic Sea ice	Di Bella, Alessandro, Kwok, Ronald, Armitage, Thomas W. K., Skourup, Henriette, Forsberg, Rene	2020	IceBridge L4 Sea Ice Freeboard, Snow Depth, and Thickness V001
On the retrieval of sea-ice thickness using SMOS polarization differences	GUPTA, MUKESH, GABARRO, CAROLINA, TURIEL, ANTONIO, PORTABELLA, MARCOS, MARTINEZ, JUSTINO	2019	IceBridge L4 Sea Ice Freeboard, Snow Depth, and Thickness V001
Retrieval of snow depth on sea ice in the arctic using the FengYun-3B microwave radiation imager	Li, Lele, Chen, Haihua, Guan, Lei	2019	IceBridge L4 Sea Ice Freeboard, Snow Depth, and Thickness V001 AMSR-E/Aqua L2A Global Swath Spatially-Resampled Brightness Temperatures V004
Impact of assimilating sea ice concentration, sea ice thickness and snow depth in a coupled oceansea ice modelling system	Fritzner, Sindre, Graversen, Rune, Christensen, Kai H., Rostosky, Philip, Wang, Keguang	2019	IceBridge L4 Sea Ice Freeboard, Snow Depth, and Thickness V001
Acquiring the Arctic-Scale Spatial Distribution of Snow Depth Based on AMSR-E Snow Depth Product	Nie, Yafei, Wang, Yuzhe, Lv, Xianqing	2019	IceBridge L4 Sea Ice Freeboard, Snow Depth, and Thickness V001 AMSR-E/Aqua Daily L3 12.5 km Brightness Temperature, Sea Ice Concentration, & Snow Depth Polar Grids V003
Arctic-Wide Sea Ice Thickness Estimates From Combining Satellite Remote Sensing Data and a Dynamic Ice-Ocean Model with Data Assimilation During the CryoSat-2 Period	Mu, Longjiang, Losch, Martin, Yang, Qinghua, Ricker, Robert, Losa, Svetlana N., Nerger, Lars	2018	IceBridge L4 Sea Ice Freeboard, Snow Depth, and Thickness V001
Comparing coincident elevation and freeboard from IceBridge and five different CryoSat-2 retrackers	Yi, Donghui, Kurtz, Nathan, Harbeck, Jeremy, Kwok, Ron, Hendricks, Stefan, Ricker, Robert	2018	IceBridge L4 Sea Ice Freeboard, Snow Depth, and Thickness V001 IceBridge Snow Radar L1B Geolocated Radar Echo Strength Profiles V002 IceBridge DMS L1B Geolocated and Orthorectified Images V001 IceBridge LVIS L2 Geolocated Surface Elevation Product V001 IceBridge LVIS L1B Geolocated Return Energy Waveforms V002
Retrieval of snow depth on sea ice in the arctic from FY3B/MWRI	Li, Lele, Chen, Haihua, Guan, Lei	2017	IceBridge L4 Sea Ice Freeboard, Snow Depth, and Thickness V001 AMSR-E/Aqua L2A Global Swath Spatially-Resampled Brightness Temperatures V004 AMSR-E/Aqua Daily L3 12.5 km Brightness Temperature, Sea Ice Concentration, & Snow Depth Polar Grids V004
Intercomparison of snow depth retrievals over Arctic sea ice from radar data acquired by Operation IceBridge	Kwok, Ron, Kurtz, Nathan T., Brucker, Ludovic, Ivanoff, Alvaro, Newman, Thomas, Farrell, Sinead L., King, Joshua, Howell, Stephen, Webster, Melinda A., Paden, John, Leuschen, Carl, MacGregor, Joseph A., Richter-Menge, Jacqueline, Harbeck, Jeremy, Tschudi, Mark	2017	IceBridge L4 Sea Ice Freeboard, Snow Depth, and Thickness V001
Spatial heterogeneity of ocean surface boundary conditions under sea ice	Barthelemy, Antoine, Fichefet, Thierry, Goosse, Hugues	2016	IceBridge L4 Sea Ice Freeboard, Snow Depth, and Thickness V001 Sea Ice Concentrations from Nimbus-7 SMMR and DMSP SSM/I-SSMIS Passive Microwave Data V002 IceBridge Sea Ice Freeboard, Snow Depth, and Thickness V001

IceBridge L4 Sea Ice Freeboard, Snow Depth, and Thickness V001

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