
ATLAS/ICESat-2 L3A Sea Ice Freeboard, Version 5
Data set id:
ATL10
DOI: 10.5067/ATLAS/ATL10.005
There is a more recent version of these data.
Version Summary
Version Summary
The ATL10 QA check for insufficient output failure now checks for the number of valid freeboard ice segments and number of valid, un-interpolated, reference surfaces; The description of the reference surface interpolation flag was updated to match the procedure in the atlas_l3a_fb code A controllable parameter; The height segment inverted barometer variable was moved to the geophysical group from the height segments group; The computation of the reference surface height was updated to better match the description in the ATBD; The MMS, Geoid, and the two free-to-mean parameters are calculated at the reference surface-scale and added to ATL10; The along track distance is calculated at the beam reference surface and lead group scale; The reference surface time and location is set to the center of the reference surface; The new PODPPD flag, and updated segment_type flag, are read from ATL07 and used in filtering which sea ice segments are used in freeboard processing; An error in the computation of reference surface sigma values led to missing sigma variables for individual freeboard segments and was corrected by simply interpolating from nearby reference surface sigma values; interpolation flag value of 3; Modified the integration test scripts to generate browse products and check for the presence of default 1 and default 2 plots; The ATLAS browse plot for ATL10 reference surface and freeboard heights has been corrected; New parameters of mean ocean sea level pressure dynamic inverted barometer effect from ATL07 and written to ATL10.
Overview
This data set (ATL10) contains estimates of sea ice freeboard, calculated using three different approaches. Sea ice leads used to establish the reference sea surface and descriptive statistics used in the height estimates are also provided. The data were acquired by the Advanced Topographic Laser Altimeter System (ATLAS) instrument on board the Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) observatory.
Parameter(s):
FREEBOARD
Platform(s):
ICESat-2
Sensor(s):
ATLAS
Data Format(s):
HDF5
Temporal Coverage:
- 14 October 2018 to 12 October 2022
Temporal Resolution:
- 91 day
Spatial Resolution:
- Not Specified
Spatial Reference System(s):
- WGS 84EPSG:4326
Spatial Coverage:
- N:90S:-90E:180W:-180
Blue outlined yellow areas on the map below indicate the spatial coverage for this data set.
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This short article describes the customization services available for ICESat-2 data using Earthdata Search.
The NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC) is migrating its primary data access from its legacy, on-premises archive to the NASA Earthdata Cloud.
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