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Description

This data set reports surface grain size estimates of snow and ice using waveform measurements from NASA's Airborne Topographic Mapper (ATM) narrow-swath and wide-swath instrumentation over the Greenland ice sheet and surrounding sea ice.

Version Description

Initial release

Product Summary

Platforms
NASA DC-8 ,
NASA P-3
Instruments
ATM
Projects
2017_AN_NASA ,
2018_AN_NASA ,
2018_GR_NASA ,
2019_AN_NASA ,
2019_GR_NASA ,
OIB
Spatial Extent

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

Spatial Resolution
0.5 Meters x 0.5 Meters
Spatial Reference System(s)
WGS 84 (EPSG:4326)
Location
ARCTIC ,
GREENLAND
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
GEODETIC
Temporal Extent
2017-07-17 to 2019-09-11
Concept ID
C3188457225-NSIDC_CPRD
Data State
COMPLETE
Number of Files/Granules
16390
Processing Level
2A
Published
Science Keywords
Snow Grain Size

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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Smith, B., Sutterley, T., & Studinger, M. (2024). IceBridge ATM Waveform Derived Snow Effective Grain Radius, Version 1 [Dataset]. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/1207YUVC7KOO Date Accessed: 2026-09-12

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Understanding biases in ICESat-2 data due to subsurface scattering using Airborne Topographic Mapper waveform data Smith, Benjamin E., Studinger, Michael, Sutterley, Tyler, Fair, Zachary, Neumann, Thomas Snow Grain Size, Surface Morphology, Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation, Sensor Counts, Sea Ice Elevation
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