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Description

This data set provides locations and depths of melt ponds in the Multi-Year Arctic Sea Ice Region, calculated from ATLAS/ICESat-2 L2A Global Geolocated Photon Data, Version 5 (ATL03) using an autoadaptive algorithm.

Version Description

Initial release

Product Summary

Platforms
ICESat-2
Instruments
ATLAS
Spatial Extent

N: 90 S: 75 E: 0 W: -150

Spatial Reference System(s)
WGS 84 / NSIDC Sea Ice Polar Stereographic North (EPSG:3413)
Location
ARCTIC
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
GEODETIC
Temporal Extent
2020-06-04 to 2020-08-28
Temporal Resolution
Varies
Concept ID
C3206495206-NSIDC_CPRD
Data State
COMPLETE
Number of Files/Granules
178
Processing Level
4
Published
Science Keywords
Melt Pond

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

Herzfeld, U., Trantow, T., Lawson, M., Han, H., Buckley, E., & Farrell, S. (2024). ICESat-2 Derived Sea Ice Melt Pond Characteristics from the Density-Dimension Algorithm, Version 3 [Dataset]. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/LLRQ29WG4MZH Date Accessed: 2026-09-17

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Optimization of automated sea-ice melt-pond depth determination in ICESat-2 altimeter data with the Density-Dimension Algorithm for bifurcating sea-ice reflectors using airborne campaign data Trantow, Thomas, Herzfeld, Ute C., Vanderwilt, Mia, Saylam, Kutalmis, Kurtz, Nathan, Han, Huilin, Tilling, Rachel Terrain Elevation, Lidar Backscatter, Melt Pond
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