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IceBridge Narrow Swath ATM L1B Elevation and Return Strength V002

Creator: NSIDC_CPRD
Keywords: Sea Ice Elevation

ILNSA1B

Version

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5067/CXEQS8KVIXEI

Citation

Center/Project

National Snow and Ice Data Center DAAC (NSIDC DAAC)

Data at a Glance

Data Format

HDF5

Spatial Extent

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

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

Spatial Resolution

2 Meters x 2 Meters

Location

ARCTIC ,

ANTARCTICA ,

GREENLAND

Temporal Extent

2013-03-20 to 2019-11-20

Temporal Resolution

Varies

Coordinate System

CARTESIAN

Granule Spatial Representation

GEODETIC

Description

This data set contains spot elevation measurements of Greenland, Arctic, and Antarctic sea ice acquired using the NASA Airborne Topographic Mapper (ATM) narrow-swath instrumentation. The data were collected as part of Operation IceBridge funded aircraft survey campaigns.

Version Description

-Beginning with the 2013 Greenland campaign, the data file format is HDF5 (Version 1 data are in Qfit binary format for 2012 and earlier campaigns) -Qfit data files for all previous campaigns are to be replaced with HDF5 files -The data set title changed from "IceBridge Narrow Swath ATM L1B Qfit Elevation and Return Strength" to "IceBridge Narrow Swath ATM L1B Elevation and Return Strength"

Product Summary

Platforms

C-130 ,

DC-8 ,

G-V ,

HU-25C ,

P-3B

Instruments

ATM

Projects

2013_AN_NASA ,

2013_GR_NASA ,

2014_AN_NASA ,

2014_GR_NASA ,

2015_GR_NASA ,

2016_AN_NASA ,

2017_AN_NASA ,

2017_GR_NASA ,

2018_AN_NASA ,

2018_GR_NASA ,

2019_AN_NASA ,

2019_GR_NASA

Spatial Extent

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

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

Spatial Resolution

2 Meters x 2 Meters

Location

ARCTIC ,

ANTARCTICA ,

GREENLAND

Coordinate System

CARTESIAN

Granule Spatial Representation

GEODETIC

Temporal Extent

2013-03-20 to 2019-11-20

Temporal Resolution

Varies

Concept ID

C3188457860-NSIDC_CPRD

Data State

COMPLETE

Number of Files/Granules

31013

Processing Level

Published

2014-01-17

Science Keywords

Sea Ice 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.

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Studinger, M. (2014). IceBridge Narrow Swath ATM L1B Elevation and Return Strength, Version 2 [Dataset]. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/CXEQS8KVIXEI Date Accessed: 2026-06-10

Documents

USER'S GUIDE

IceBridge Narrow Swath ATM L1B Elevation and Return Strength, Version 2 User Guide

GENERAL DOCUMENTATION

Publications Citing This Dataset

Title	Year Sort ascending	Author	Topic
Extracting sea ice topographic features from triangulated surface models	2026	Song, Yunting, Floriani, Leila De, Duncan, Kyle, Farrell, Sinead Louise	Terrain Elevation, Sea Ice Elevation, VISIBLE IMAGERY, Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation
On the statistical relationship between sea ice freeboard and C-band microwave backscattera case study with Sentinel-1 and Operation IceBridge	2025	Liu, Siqi, Xu, Shiming, Guo, Wenkai, Fan, Yanfei, Zhou, Lu, Landy, Jack, Johansson, Malin, Zhu, Weixin, Petty, Alek	Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation, Sea Ice Elevation, Sea Ice Elevation, Freeboard
Estimating differential penetration of green (532 nm) laser light over sea ice with NASA's Airborne Topographic Mapper: observations and models	2024	Studinger, Michael, Smith, Benjamin E., Kurtz, Nathan, Petty, Alek, Sutterley, Tyler, Tilling, Rachel	Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation, VISIBLE IMAGERY, Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation, Sensor Counts, Sea Ice Elevation, Freeboard, Sea Ice Elevation
Latest Altimetry-Based Sea Ice Freeboard and Volume Inter-Annual	2022	Garnier, Florent, Bocquet, Marion, Fleury, Sara, Bouffard, Jerome, Tsamados, Michel, Remy, Frederique, Garric, Gilles, Chenal, Aliette	Sea Ice Concentration, Brightness Temperature, Sea Ice Motion, Snow Depth, Sea Ice Elevation
Assessment of ICESat2 Sea Ice Surface Classification with Sentinel2 Imagery: Implications for Freeboard and New Estimates of Lead and Floe Geometry	2021	Petty, A. A., Bagnardi, M., Kurtz, N. T., Tilling, R., Fons, S., Armitage, T., Horvat, C., Kwok, R.	Sea Ice Elevation
ICESat-2 Surface Height and Sea Ice Freeboard Assessed With ATM Lidar Acquisitions From Operation IceBridge	2019	Kwok, R., Kacimi, S., Markus, T., Kurtz, N. T., Studinger, M., Sonntag, J. G., Manizade, S. S., Boisvert, L. N., Harbeck, J. P.	Sea Ice Elevation, Sea Ice Elevation
High-resolution airborne observations of sea-ice pressure ridge sail height	2018	Duncan, K., Farrell, S. L., Connor, L. N., Richter-Menge, J., Hutchings, J. K., Dominguez, R.	Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation, VISIBLE IMAGERY, Sea Ice Elevation
Three years of sea ice freeboard, snow depth, and ice thickness of the Weddell Sea from Operation IceBridge and CryoSat-2	2018	Kwok, Ron, Kacimi, Sahra	Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation, Glacier Topography/Ice Sheet Topography, RADAR IMAGERY, Sea Ice Elevation, Sea Ice Elevation, Snow Cover, VISIBLE IMAGERY, Sea Ice Elevation