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Reprocessed NASA ICESat/GLAS GLAH01 HDF5 data are now available at the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC). GLAH01 reprocessing was conducted to correct… Read more »
Data Announcements: ICESat 
New NASA ICESat/GLAS Altimetry Release-34 HDF5 Data
ICESat/GLAS Altimetry Release-34 HDF5 data are now available at the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC) for products GLA05, GLA06, and GLA12-15. See… Read more »
New NASA ICESat/GLAS Altimetry Release-34 L2E and L2F Binary Data
ICESat/GLAS Altimetry Release-34 binary format data for Laser 2E and 2F campaigns are now available at the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC)… Read more »
New NASA ICESat/GLAS Altimetry Release-34 L3H, L3I, L3J, L3K, and L2D Binary Data
ICESat/GLAS Altimetry Release-34 binary format data for Laser 3H, 3I, 3J, 3K, and 2D campaigns are now available at the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive… Read more »
New ICESat/GLAS Altimetry Release-34 L3E, L3F, and L3G Binary Data
NASA ICESat/GLAS Altimetry Release-34 binary format data for Laser 3E, 3F, and 3G campaigns are now available for products GLA05, GLA06, and GLA12-15. See the ICESat/GLAS Data Releases page for… Read more »
New ICESat/GLAS Altimetry Release-34 L3B, L3C, and L3D Binary Data
NASA ICESat/GLAS Altimetry Release-34 binary format data for Laser 3B, 3C, and 3D campaigns are now available for products GLA05, GLA06, and GLA12-15. See the ICESat/GLAS Data Releases page for… Read more »
New ICESat/GLAS Altimetry Release-34 L2C and L3A Binary Data
NASA ICESat/GLAS Altimetry Release-34 binary format data for Laser 2C and 3A campaigns are now available for products GLA05, GLA06, and GLA12-15. See the ICESat/GLAS Data Releases page for more… Read more »
New ICESat/GLAS Altimetry Release-34 L1A, L1B, L2A, and L2B Binary Data
NASA ICESat/GLAS Altimetry Release-34 binary format data for Laser 1A, 1B, 2A, and 2B campaigns are now available for products GLA05, GLA06, and GLA12-15. See the ICESat/GLAS Data Releases page… Read more »
NSIDC Web Site and FTP Server Down for System Maintenance
From 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 04 until noon Friday, June 06 (USA Mountain Time), our Web site and FTP server will be unavailable due to system maintenance. We apologize for… Read more »
Updated Arctic Sea Ice Freeboard and Thickness Now Available from NSIDC
The Arctic Sea Ice Freeboard and Thickness data set has been updated to add Lasers 1, 2A, 2B, 2C, 3A, 3B, 3C, 3J, and 3K. The update also includes GeoTIFF… Read more »
