N: 83.56 S: 58.91 E: 6.62 W: -88.33
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Description
The Likely Basal Thermal State of the Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) product contains key data sets that show how the likely basal thermal state was inferred from existing airborne and satellite data sets and recent methods, and provides a synthesis mask of the likely basal thermal state over the Greenland Ice Sheet.
Version Description
The first synthesis relied on inferences from widespread airborne and satellite observations and numerical models, for which most of the underlying data sets have since been updated. Version 2 features a revised synthesis mask of the likely basal thermal state over the Greenland Ice Sheet based on four input sources:
-Basal temperature fields from ISMIP6 control runs of 10 ice sheet models (Goelzer et al., 2020)
-Gridded basal melt rate inferred from 1-D modeling of radiostratigraphy (MacGregor et al., 2016)
-Modeled ratio of surface speed to maximum deformation speed (Joughin et al., 2016)
-Basal water from radar soundings (Panton and Karlsson, 2015; Leysinger-Vieli et al., 2018; Jordan et al., 2018; Bowling et al., 2019)
Product Summary
Spatial Extent
Spatial Resolution
5 Kilometers x 5 Kilometers
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
1993-06-23 to 2017-05-20
Temporal Resolution
Varies
Concept ID
C3205011603-NSIDC_CPRD
Data State
COMPLETE
Number of Files/Granules
1
Processing Level
4
Published
Science Keywords
THERMAL PROPERTIES
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MacGregor, J., Chu, W., Colgan, W., Fahnestock, M., Felikson, D., Karlsson, N., Nowicki, S., & Studinger, M. (2022). Likely Basal Thermal State of the Greenland Ice Sheet, Version 2 [Dataset]. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/RQO5Q6F6E6LY Date Accessed: 2026-09-12
@misc{macgregor_chu_colgan_fahnestock_felikson_karlsson_nowicki_studinger_2022,
title={Likely Basal Thermal State of the Greenland Ice Sheet, Version 2},
url={http://nsidc.org/data/RDBTS4/versions/2},
DOI={10.5067/RQO5Q6F6E6LY},
publisher={NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center},
author={MacGregor, Joseph and Chu, Winnie and Colgan, William and Fahnestock, Mark and Felikson, Denis and Karlsson, Nanna and Nowicki, Sophie and Studinger, Michael},
year={2022},
}
MacGregor, J., Chu, W., Colgan, W., Fahnestock, M., Felikson, D., Karlsson, N., Nowicki, S., & Studinger, M. (2022). Likely Basal Thermal State of the Greenland Ice Sheet, Version 2 [Dataset]. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/RQO5Q6F6E6LY Date Accessed: 2026-09-12
MacGregor, Joseph, et al. “Likely Basal Thermal State of the Greenland Ice Sheet, Version 2.” NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center, 2022, https://doi.org/10.5067/RQO5Q6F6E6LY. Date Accessed: 2026-09-12
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| Title | Year Sort ascending | Author | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| Threshold response to melt drives large-scale bed weakening in Greenland | Maier, Nathan, Gimbert, Florent, Gillet-Chaulet, Fabien | Land Ice/Ocean Classification, Ice Velocity, Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation, THERMAL PROPERTIES, Bathymetry, Bed Elevation, Glacier/Ice Sheet Thickness, Terrain Elevation | |
| Basal traction mainly dictated by hard-bed physics over grounded regions | Maier, Nathan, Gimbert, Florent, Gillet-Chaulet, Fabien, Gilbert, Adrien | Ice Velocity, Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation, THERMAL PROPERTIES, Bathymetry, Bed Elevation, Glacier/Ice Sheet Thickness, Terrain Elevation | |
| Subglacial roughness of the Greenland Ice Sheet: relationship with contemporary ice velocity and geology | Cooper, Michael A., Jordan, Thomas M., Schroeder, Dustin M., Siegert, Martin J., Williams, Christopher N., Bamber, Jonathan L. | THERMAL PROPERTIES | |
| A constraint upon the basal water distribution and thermal state of the Greenland Ice Sheet from radar bed echoes | Jordan, Thomas M., Williams, Christopher N., Schroeder, Dustin M., Martos, Yasmina M., Cooper, Michael A., Siegert, Martin J., Paden, John D., Huybrechts, Philippe, Bamber, Jonathan L. | Ice Velocity, THERMAL PROPERTIES | |
| Self-affine subglacial roughness: consequences for radar scattering and basal water discrimination in northern Greenland | Jordan, Thomas M., Cooper, Michael A., Schroeder, Dustin M., Williams, Christopher N., Paden, John D., Siegert, Martin J., Bamber, Jonathan L. | THERMAL PROPERTIES |
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