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January 12, 2021

New version available: ATLAS/ICESat-2 L3B Annual Land Ice Height Version 2

The ATLAS/ICESat-2 L3B Annual Land Ice Height, (ATL11) data set from the Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) mission has been updated to Version 2 at the NASA National… Read more »

December 1, 2020

New data set released: ATLAS/ICESat-2 L3B Annual Land Ice Height

The ATLAS/ICESat-2 L3B Annual Land Ice Height, Version 1 (ATL11) data set from the Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) mission is now available at the NASA National Snow… Read more »

November 12, 2020

New data set released: ATLAS/ICESat-2 L3B Daily and Monthly Gridded Sea Ice Freeboard

The ATLAS/ICESat-2 L3B Daily and Monthly Gridded Sea Ice Freeboard, Version 1 (ATL20) data set from the Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) mission is now available at the… Read more »

July 9, 2020

Data set update: ATLAS/ICESat-2 L3A Sea Ice Freeboard

The ATLAS/ICESat-2 L3A Sea Ice Freeboard, Version 3 (ATL10) data set from the Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) mission is now available at the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center… Read more »

June 12, 2020

Data set update: ATLAS/ICESat-2 L3A Sea Ice Height

The ATLAS/ICESat-2 L3A Sea Ice Height, Version 3 (ATL07) data set from the Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) mission is now available at the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center… Read more »

June 8, 2020

New version available: ATLAS/ICESat-2 L3A Inland Water Surface Height (ATL13)

The ATLAS/ICESat-2 L3A Inland Water Surface Height, Version 3 (ATL13) data set from the Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) mission is now available at the NASA National Snow… Read more »

June 4, 2020

New data set release: ATLAS/ICESat-2 L3B Monthly Gridded Atmosphere Product

The ATLAS/ICESat-2 L3B Monthly Gridded Atmosphere, Version 2 (ATL17) data set from the Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) mission is now available at NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active… Read more »

June 4, 2020

New data set release: ATLAS/ICESat-2 L3B Weekly Gridded Atmosphere Product

The ATLAS/ICESat-2 L3B Weekly Gridded Atmosphere, Version 2 (ATL16) data set from the Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) mission is now available at NASA National Snow and Ice Data… Read more »

May 5, 2020

New versions available: ICESat-2 Version 3 data sets now available at the NSIDC DAAC

Multiple Level-1B, Level-2A, and Level-3A data sets from the Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) mission have been updated to Version 3 at the NASA National Snow and Ice… Read more »

January 30, 2020

Level of service update: ATLAS/ICESat-2 L3A Ocean Surface Height, Version 2

The ATLAS/ICESat-2 L3A Ocean Surface Height, Version 2 (ATL12) data set, accessible through the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC), has been updated… Read more »

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