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Description

This data set contains radar echograms taken from the Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS) ultra wide-band snow radar over land and sea ice in the Arctic and Antarctic. In addition, airborne snow measurements were taken during 10 flights over Alaska mountains, ice fields, and glaciers at the end of May 2018 by a compact CReSIS FMCW radar system installed on a Single Otter aircraft. The data were collected as part of Operation IceBridge funded campaigns.

Version Description

Version 2 data are in netCDF format beginning with the 2009 Greenland campaign.

Product Summary

Platforms
C-130 ,
DC-8 ,
DHC-3 ,
G-V ,
P-3B ,
WP-3D ORION
Instruments
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 ,
2016_AN_NASA ,
2016_GR_NASA ,
2017_AN_NASA ,
2017_GR_NASA ,
2018_AN_NASA ,
2018_GR_NASA ,
2019_AN_NASA ,
2019_GR_NASA ,
2021_AK_UAF ,
OIB
Spatial Extent

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

,

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

Location
ARCTIC ,
ANTARCTICA ,
GREENLAND
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
GEODETIC
Temporal Extent
2009-03-31 to 2021-05-13
Temporal Resolution
Varies
Concept ID
C3187453659-NSIDC_CPRD
Data State
COMPLETE
Number of Files/Granules
240787
Processing Level
1B
Published
Updated
Science Keywords
Glacier Topography/Ice Sheet Topography ,
RADAR IMAGERY ,
Sea Ice Elevation ,
Sea Ice Elevation ,
Snow Cover

Citation

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Paden, J., Li, J., Leuschen, C., Rodriguez-Morales, F., & Hale, R. (2014). IceBridge Snow Radar L1B Geolocated Radar Echo Strength Profiles, Version 2 [Dataset]. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/FAZTWP500V70 Date Accessed: 2026-10-02

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  • Webster, M. A., DuVivier, A. K., Holland, M. M., Bailey, D. A.
Accumulation rates (20092017) in Southeast Greenland derived from airborne snow radar and comparison with regional climate models
  • Montgomery, Lynn, Koenig, Lora, Lenaerts, Jan T. M., Kuipers Munneke, Peter
Evaluation of Cloudsat's cloudprofiling radar for mapping snowfall rates across the Greenland Ice Sheet
  • Ryan, Jonathan C., Smith, Laurence C., Wu, Mengxi, Cooley, Sarah W., Miege, Clement, Montgomery, Lynn N., Koenig, Lora S., Fettweis, Xavier, Noel, Brice P. Y., van den Broeke, Michiel R.
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Enhanced Firn Densification in High-Accumulation Shear Margins of the NE
  • Riverman, K. L., Alley, R. B., Anandakrishnan, S., Christianson, K., Holschuh, N. D., Medley, B., Muto, A., Peters, L. E.
Reconstruction of Snow on Arctic Sea Ice
  • BlanchardWrigglesworth, E., Webster, M. A., Farrell, S. L., Bitz, C. M.
Snow in the changing sea-ice systems
  • Webster, Melinda, Gerland, Sebastian, Holland, Marika, Hunke, Elizabeth, Kwok, Ron, Lecomte, Olivier, Massom, Robert, Perovich, Don, Sturm, Matthew
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Global sea-level budget 1993-present
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Comparing coincident elevation and freeboard from IceBridge and five different CryoSat-2 retrackers
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Modeling multifrequency Pol-InSAR data from the percolation zone of the Greenland Ice Sheet
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Formation and development of supraglacial lakes in the percolation zone of the Greenland ice sheet
  • CHEN, CHRISTINE, HOWAT, IAN M., DE LA PENA, SANTIAGO
Annual Greenland accumulation rates (20092012) from airborne snow radar
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