MEaSUREs Greenland Ice Velocity: Selected Glacier Site Velocity Maps from InSAR

Data Contributors JOUGHIN, IAN HOWAT, IAN SCAMBOS, TED SMITH, BEN Parameters GLACIERS/ICE SHEETS > GLACIERS GLACIERS/ICE SHEETS > ICE SHEETS SNOW/ICE > ICE MOTION SNOW/ICE > ICE VELOCITY Instruments SAR : SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR

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This data set is part of the NASA Making Earth System Data Records for Use in Research Environments (MEaSUREs) program. This data set provides maps of glacier outlet areas, some of which have shown profound velocity changes over the MEaSUREs observation period from 2000 to 2011. The data are provided in addition to the ice-sheet-wide data from the related data set, MEaSUREs Greenland Ice Sheet Velocity Map from InSAR Data (NSIDC-0478: http://nsidc.org/data/nsidc-0478.html). The InSAR Selected Glacier Site Velocity Maps are produced from TerraSAR-X (TSX) image pairs collected from January through November 2009, January through December 2010, and January through November 2011.

Data are available via FTP, in 4-byte Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) floating point format.

Note: These data are considered provisional pending a review by the MEaSUREs program. Once the data have been reviewed, this statement will be removed from this documentation.

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Literature Citation

The generation of this data set is discussed in the following article(s). Please acknowledge the use of this data set by referencing the following citation(s):

Joughin, I., B. Smith, I. Howat, T. Moon, and T. Scambos. 2010. Greenland Flow Variability from Ice-Sheet-Wide Velocity Mapping. Journal of Glaciology 56(197): 415-430.

Data Citation

The following example shows how to cite the use of this data set in a publication. For more information, see our Use and Copyright Web page.

Joughin, I., B. Smith, I. Howat, T. Scambos.. 2011, updated 2013. MEaSUREs Greenland Ice Velocity: Selected Glacier Site Velocity Maps from InSAR. [indicate subset used]. Boulder, Colorado USA: National Snow and Ice Data Center.

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