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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
52
Processing Level
4
Published
Updated
Science Keywords
Freeboard ,
Ice Depth/Thickness ,
Ice Roughness ,
Sea Ice Elevation ,
Snow Depth

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

Kurtz, Nathan, Studinger, Michael, Harbeck, Jeremy, Onana, Vincent-De-Paul, & Yi, Donghui. (2015). IceBridge L4 Sea Ice Freeboard, Snow Depth, and Thickness, Version 1 [Data set]. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/G519SHCKWQV6 Date Accessed: 2026-11-13

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A multi-frequency altimetry snow depth product over Arctic sea ice
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Quantifying the influence of snow over sea ice morphology on L-band passive microwave satellite observations in the Southern Ocean
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A long-term proxy for sea ice thickness in the Canadian Arctic: 1996-2020
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Bivariate sea-ice assimilation for global-ocean analysisreanalysis
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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
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
A Preliminary Investigation of Arctic Sea Ice Negative Freeboard from in-situ Observations and Radar Altimetry
  • Li, Shutong, Dou, Tingfeng, Xiao, Cunde
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.
Retrieval of Snow Depth on Arctic Sea Ice from the FY3B/MWRI
  • Li, Lele, Chen, Haihua, Guan, Lei
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.
The Polar System Analysis Package (Ver. 1 Specifications)
  • Roberts, Andrew
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
Acquiring the Arctic-Scale Spatial Distribution of Snow Depth Based on AMSR-E Snow Depth Product
  • Nie, Yafei, Wang, Yuzhe, Lv, Xianqing
On the retrieval of sea-ice thickness using SMOS polarization differences
  • GUPTA, MUKESH, GABARRO, CAROLINA, TURIEL, ANTONIO, PORTABELLA, MARCOS, MARTINEZ, JUSTINO
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
Retrieval of snow depth on sea ice in the arctic using the FengYun-3B microwave radiation imager
  • Li, Lele, Chen, Haihua, Guan, Lei
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
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
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
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