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Description

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

Version Description

Version 2 data are in HDF5 format beginning with the 2013 Arctic campaign. Version 1 data are in Qfit binary format for 2012 and earlier campaigns.

Product Summary

Platforms
C-130 ,
DC-8 ,
G-V ,
HU-25A ,
HU-25C ,
P-3B ,
WP-3D ORION
Instruments
ATM
Projects
2013_AN_NASA ,
2013_GR_NASA ,
2014_AN_NASA ,
2014_GR_NASA ,
2015_AN_NASA ,
2015_GR_NASA ,
2016_AK_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
Spatial Extent

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

,

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

Spatial Reference System(s)
Multiple EPSG codes (see User Guide)
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
C2033639214-NSIDC_CPRD
Data State
COMPLETE
Number of Files/Granules
47181
Processing Level
1B
Published
Science Keywords
Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet 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.

Copy Citation

Studinger, M. (2013). IceBridge ATM L1B Elevation and Return Strength, Version 2 [Data set]. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/19SIM5TXKPGT Date Accessed: 2026-06-04

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Publications Citing This Dataset

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Extracting sea ice topographic features from triangulated surface models Song, Yunting, Floriani, Leila De, Duncan, Kyle, Farrell, Sinead Louise Terrain Elevation, Sea Ice Elevation, VISIBLE IMAGERY, Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation
Snow effects on altimeter waveforms over sea ice in the Weddell Sea-Part Zhou, Lu, Skourup, Henriette, Stroeve, Julienne, Kacimi, Sahra, Arndt, Stefanie, Zhu, Weixin, Petty, Alek, Huang, Lanqing, Xu, Shiming Freeboard, Ice Depth/Thickness, Ice Roughness, Sea Ice Elevation, Snow Depth, VISIBLE IMAGERY, Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation, Glacier Topography/Ice Sheet Topography, RADAR IMAGERY, Sea Ice Elevation, Snow Cover
A topology-based approach to extract pressure ridges from sea ice surfaces Song, Yunting, De Floriani, Leila, Duncan, Kyle, Farrell, Sinead Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation
Improvements to ICESat-2 Sea Ice Data Products: Enhanced Resolution of Rough Terrain Wimert, Jesse, Kurtz, Nathan, Buckley, Ellen, Lee, Jeff, Farrell, Sinead, Duncan, Kyle, Robertson, Kamryn Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation, VISIBLE IMAGERY
On the statistical relationship between sea ice freeboard and C-band microwave backscattera case study with Sentinel-1 and Operation IceBridge 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
Altimetry-based ice-marginal lake water level changes in Greenland Dmgaard, Mads, Kjeldsen, Kristian, How, Penny, Bjrk, Anders Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation, Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation, Glacier Topography/Ice Sheet Topography, Ice Roughness, Ice Sheets, Reflectance, Sea Surface Height, Sea Surface Slope, Surface Roughness, Terrain Elevation
Estimating differential penetration of green (532 nm) laser light over sea ice with NASA's Airborne Topographic Mapper: observations and models 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
Quantifying the impact of X-band InSAR penetration bias on elevation change and mass balance estimation Abdullahi, Sahra, Burgess, David, Wessel, Birgit, Copland, Luke, Roth, Achim Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation
Thwaites Glacier thins and retreats fastest where ice-shelf channels intersect its grounding zone Chartrand, Allison M., Howat, Ian M., Joughin, Ian R., Smith, Benjamin E. Terrain Elevation, Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation, Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation, Grounding Line, Basins, Coastline, Ice Shelves, Glacier Thickness/Ice Sheet Thickness, Bathymetry, Bed Elevation, Firn Air Content, Glacier/Ice Sheet Thickness, Ice Velocity
A comparison of contemporaneous airborne altimetry and ice-thickness measurements of Antarctic ice shelves Chartrand, Allison M., Howat, Ian M. Ice Velocity, Terrain Elevation, Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation, Ice Depth/Thickness, Ice Depth/Thickness, Sea Ice Elevation, Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation, Bed Elevation
Modification of Pacific water in the northern Canadian Arctic Dmitrenko, Igor A., Kirillov, Sergei A., Rudels, Bert, Geilfus, Nicolas-Xavier, Ehn, Jens, Babb, David G., Lilien, David A., Dahl-Jensen, Dorthe Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation, Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation, Glacier Thickness/Ice Sheet Thickness
New estimates of pan-Arctic sea ice-atmosphere neutral drag coefficients from ICESat-2 elevation data Mchedlishvili, Alexander, Lupkes, Christof, Petty, Alek, Tsamados, Michel, Spreen, Gunnar Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation, Sea Ice Elevation
Arctic sea ice freeboard estimation and variations from Operation IceBridge Zhang, Shengkai, Geng, Tong, Zhu, Chaohui, Li, Jiaxing, Li, Xiao, Zhu, Benxin, Liu, Laixing, Xiao, Feng Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation, Freeboard, Ice Depth/Thickness, Ice Roughness, Sea Ice Elevation, Snow Depth, VISIBLE IMAGERY
Arctic Sea-Ice Surface Elevation Distribution from NASA's Operation Yi, Donghui, Egido, Alejandro, Smith, Walter H. F., Connor, Laurence, Buchhaupt, Christopher, Zhang, Dexin Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation, VISIBLE IMAGERY
GHub: Building a glaciology gateway to unify a community Sperhac, Jeanette M., Poinar, Kristin, JonesIvey, Renette, Briner, Jason, Csatho, Beata, Nowicki, Sophie, Simon, Erika, Larour, Eric, Quinn, Justin, Patra, Abani Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation
Basal Channel Evolution on the Getz Ice Shelf, West Antarctica Chartrand, A. M., Howat, I. M. Ice Velocity, Grounding Line, Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation, Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation, Glacier Thickness/Ice Sheet Thickness, Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation, Glacier Topography/Ice Sheet Topography, Ice Sheets, Reflectance
Decadal Variations of Sea Ice Thickness in the Amundsen-Bellingshausen and Weddell Seas Retrieved From ICESat and IceBridge Laser Altimetry, 20032017 Wang, Xianwei, Jiang, Weixu, Xie, Hongjie, Ackley, Stephen, Li, Huan Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation, Ice Roughness, Ice Roughness, Reflectance, Sea Ice Elevation, Sea Ice Elevation, Calibration, Sea Ice Concentration, Freeboard, Ice Depth/Thickness, Ice Depth/Thickness, Snow Depth, Snow Depth
Revised Estimates of Recent Mass Loss Rates for Penny Ice Cap, Baffin Island, Based on 20052014 Elevation Changes Modified for Firn Densification Schaffer, N., Copland, L., Zdanowicz, C., Burgess, D., Nilsson, J. Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation
Remote sensing of glacier and ice sheet grounding lines: A review Friedl, Peter, Weiser, Frank, Fluhrer, Anke, Braun, Matthias H. Grounding Line, Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation, Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation, Glacier Thickness/Ice Sheet Thickness
Towards Performant Workflows, Monitoring and Measuring Sperhac, Jeanette, DeLeon, Robert L., White, Joseph P., Jones, Matthew, Bruno, Andrew E., Ivey, Renette Jones, Furlani, Thomas R., Bard, Jonathan E., Chaudhary, Vipin Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation
Using ICESat-2 and Operation IceBridge altimetry for supraglacial lake depth retrievals Fair, Zachary, Flanner, Mark, Brunt, Kelly M., Fricker, Helen Amanda, Gardner, Alex Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation, Terrain Elevation
Ice sheet elevation mapping and change detection with the ice, cloud and land elevation satellite-2 Csatho, B. M., Schenk, A. F., Neumann, T. Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation, Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation, Glacier Topography/Ice Sheet Topography, Ice Sheets, Reflectance, Terrain Elevation
Spatio-temporal variations in seasonal ice tongue submarine melt rate at a tidewater glacier in southwest Greenland MOYER, A. N., NIENOW, P. W., GOURMELEN, N., SOLE, A. J., SLATER, D. A., TRUFFER, M., FAHNESTOCK, M. Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation
High-resolution airborne observations of sea-ice pressure ridge sail height 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
Evaluation of Reconstructions of Snow/Ice Melt in Greenland by Regional Atmospheric Climate Models Using Laser Altimetry Data Sutterley, Tyler C., Velicogna, Isabella, Fettweis, Xavier, Rignot, Eric, Noel, Brice, van den Broeke, Michiel Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation, Ice Roughness, Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation, Terrain Elevation, Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation, Glacier Topography/Ice Sheet Topography, Glacier Topography/Ice Sheet Topography, Ice Sheets, Ice Sheets, Reflectance, Reflectance
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