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Description

This data set, part of the NASA Making Earth System Data Records for Use in Research Environments (MEaSUREs) program, contains a multi-year ice-sheet-wide velocity mosaic for Greenland, derived from Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR), Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), and Landsat 8 optical imagery data.

See <a href="http://nsidc.org/data/measures/gimp">Greenland Ice Mapping Project (GIMP)</a> for related data.

Version Description

Initial release

Product Summary

Platforms
ALOS ,
ERS-1 ,
ERS-2 ,
LANDSAT-8 ,
RADARSAT-1 ,
RADARSAT-2 ,
TSX
Instruments
PALSAR ,
SAR ,
OLI
Projects
MEaSUREs
Spatial Extent

N: 83 S: 60 E: -14 W: -75

Spatial Resolution
250 Meters x 250 Meters
Spatial Reference System(s)
WGS 84 / NSIDC Sea Ice Polar Stereographic North (EPSG:3413)
Location
GREENLAND
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
CARTESIAN
Temporal Extent
1995-12-01 to 2015-10-31
Concept ID
C3291956575-NSIDC_CPRD
Data State
COMPLETE
Number of Files/Granules
1
Processing Level
3
Published
Science Keywords
Ice Velocity

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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Joughin, I., Smith, B., Howat, I., & Scambos, T. (2016). MEaSUREs Multi-year Greenland Ice Sheet Velocity Mosaic, Version 1 [Dataset]. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/QUA5Q9SVMSJG Date Accessed: 2026-10-08

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Runoff from Greenland's firn areawhy do MODIS, RCMs and a firn model disagree?
  • Machguth, Horst, Tedstone, Andrew, Kuipers Munneke, Peter, Brils, Max, Noel, Brice, Clerx, Nicole, Jullien, Nicolas, Fettweis, Xavier, van den Broeke, Michiel
A decade of winter supraglacial lake drainage across Northeast Greenland using C-band SAR
  • Dean, Connor Wolfgang, Scharien, Randall, Willis, Ian, McDougall, Kali Ann
A vast valley network beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet
  • Chartrand, Allison M., MacGregor, Joseph A., Morlighem, Mathieu, Sergienko, Olga V., Ockenden, Helen, Colgan, William T., Cheng, Gong
Comparing calving laws at Greenland's three largest ice shelves
  • Barnett, Jamie, Holmes, Felicity A., Greenwood, Sarah L., Morlighem, Mathieu, Kirchner, Nina, Jakobsson, Martin
Modified von Mises stress a robust predictor of the spatial distribution of ice slab crevasse fields in Greenland
  • Culberg, Riley, Lai, ChingYao, MacKie, Emma, McDowell, Ian, Mutter, Ellen
Petermann Glacier on the brink: Progress, challenges and insights
  • Fahrner, Dominik, Colgan, William T., MacGregor, Joseph A., Washam, Peter, Lkkegaard, Anja, Khan, Shfaqat Abbas
A unified framework for large-scale fabric evolution models and anisotropic rheologies
  • Richards, Daniel H., Mantelli, Elisa, Pegler, Samuel S., Piazolo, Sandra
A gradient-boosted tree framework to model the ice thickness of the world's glaciers (IceBoost v1. 1)
  • Maffezzoli, Niccolo, Rignot, Eric, Barbante, Carlo, Petersen, Troels, Vascon, Sebastiano
The slow violence of waste flowing through the Greenland Ice Sheet
  • Kuentz, Lily, Ryan, J. C., Carey, M.
Ice Front and Melange Dynamics at Kangerlussuaq Glacier, Eastern Greenland, Since 1981, and Future Stability
  • Lippert, E. Y. H., Morlighem, M., Cheng, G., Berg, D. L., Hassan, J., Khan, S. A.
Historically consistent mass loss projections of the Greenland ice sheet
  • Rahlves, Charlotte, Goelzer, Heiko, Born, Andreas, Langebroek, Petra M.
Detecting Arctic Icebergs in Sea Ice in L-Band SAR Images Using a Multiscale CFAR Algorithm
  • Frch, Laust, Dierking, Wolfgang, Hughes, Nick, Doulgeris, Anthony P.
Emulator-based Bayesian calibration of a subglacial drainage model
  • Hill, Tim, Flowers, Gwenn E., Bingham, Derek, Hoffman, Matthew J.
Double Reflections in Polarized Radar Data Reveal Ice Fabric in the North East Greenland Ice Stream
  • Nymand, Niels F., Lilien, David A., Gerber, Tamara A., Hvidberg, Christine S., Steinhage, Daniel, Gogineni, Prasad, Taylor, Drew, DahlJensen, Dorthe
Multifidelity uncertainty quantification for ice sheet simulations
  • Aretz, Nicole, Gunzburger, Max, Morlighem, Mathieu, Willcox, Karen
Mechanisms for upstream migration of firn aquifer drainage: preliminary observations from Helheim Glacier, Greenland
  • Mejia, Jessica Z., Poinar, Kristin, Meyer, Colin R., Sommers, Aleah N., Chu, Winnie
Projections of precipitation and temperatures in Greenland and the impact of spatially uniform anomalies on the evolution of the ice sheet
  • Bochow, Nils, Poltronieri, Anna, Boers, Niklas
Seawater Intrusion in the Observed Grounding Zone of Petermann Glacier
  • Ehrenfeucht, Shivani, Rignot, Eric, Morlighem, Mathieu
Validating ensemble historical simulations of Upernavik Isstrm (19852019) using observations of surface velocity and elevation
  • Jager, Eliot, Gillet-Chaulet, Fabien, Mouginot, Jeremie, Millan, Romain
Geologic Provinces Beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet Constrained by
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Failure strength of glacier ice inferred from Greenland crevasses
  • Grinsted, Aslak, Rathmann, Nicholas Mossor, Mottram, Ruth, Solgaard, Anne Munck, Mathiesen, Joachim, Hvidberg, Christine Schtt
Predicting the Onset of Subglacial Drainage Channels
  • Warburton, K. L. P., Meyer, C. R., Sommers, A. N.
Modeling a Century of Change: Kangerlussuaq Glacier's Mass Loss From 1933 to 2021
  • Lippert, E. Y. H., Morlighem, M., Cheng, G., Khan, S. A.
A parallel implementation of the confined-unconfined aquifer system
  • Fischler, Yannic, Kleiner, Thomas, Bischof, Christian, Schmiedel, Jeremie, Sayag, Roiy, Emunds, Raban, Oestreich, Lennart Frederik, Humbert, Angelika
Reduced Ice Loss From Greenland Under Stratospheric Aerosol Injection
  • Moore, John C., Greve, Ralf, Yue, Chao, Zwinger, Thomas, GilletChaulet, Fabien, Zhao, Liyun
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