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  • On Wednesday, September 24 from 9:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. (US Mountain Time), this data set may not be available in the legacy data archive due to a planned system maintenance. Earthdata Cloud access will remain available for data sets that have migrated. Users of the SMAP near real-time products should use the NASA LANCE HTTPS File System for data access.

  • The NSIDC DAAC is retiring access to its legacy, on-premises data archive and transitioning to the NASA Earthdata Cloud as the primary data archive. View planned retirement dates here.

ATLAS/ICESat-2 L3B Gridded Antarctic and Arctic Land Ice Height, Version 1
Data set id:
ATL14
DOI: 10.5067/ATLAS/ATL14.001
There is a more recent version of these data.
Version Summary
Initial release
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Overview

This data set (ATL14) and ATL15 bring the time-varying height estimates provided in ATLAS/ICESat-2 L3B Annual Land Ice Height (ATL11) into a gridded format. ATL14 provides a high resolution (100 m) DEM which is a spatially continuous gridded data set of ice sheet surface height. It can be used to initialize ice sheet models, as boundary conditions for atmospheric models, or to help with the reduction of other satellite data such as optical imagery or synthetic aperture radar (SAR). ATL15 provides coarser resolution (1 km, 10 km, 20 km, and 40 km) height-change maps at 3 month intervals. This allows visualization of height-change patterns and the calculation of integrated regional volume change.
Parameter(s):
GLACIER ELEVATION/ICE SHEET ELEVATION
Platform(s):
ICESat-2
Sensor(s):
ATLAS
Data Format(s):
netCDF-4
Temporal Coverage:
  • 29 March 2019 to 23 June 2021
Temporal Resolution:
  • Not applicable
Spatial Resolution:
  • 100 m
  • 100 m
Spatial Reference System(s):
  • WGS 84 / NSIDC Sea Ice Polar Stereographic North
    EPSG:3413
  • WGS 84 / NSIDC Sea Ice Polar Stereographic South
    EPSG:3976
Spatial Coverage:
  • N:
    -60
    S:
    -90
    E:
    180
    W:
    -180
  • N:
    90
    S:
    59
    E:
    180
    W:
    -180
Blue outlined yellow areas on the map below indicate the spatial coverage for this data set.

Data Access & Tools

This data set has been retired. There is a more recent version of these data.

Documentation

Help Articles

General Questions & FAQs

FAQs About NSIDC DAAC's Earthdata Cloud Migration
This article covers frequently asked questions about the NASA NSIDC DAAC's Earthdata cloud migration project and what it means to data users.
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What subsetting and reformatting services are available for ICESat-2 data?
This short article describes the customization services available for ICESat-2 data using Earthdata Search.
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When will the legacy, on-premises archive be retired?
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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How to Articles

NASA Earthdata Cloud Data Access Guide
The NASA Earthdata Cloud is the NASA cloud-based archive of Earth observations. It is hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS). Learn how to find and access NSIDC DAAC data directly in the cloud.
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