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Data Set:
ICESat-2 Derived Sea Ice Melt Pond Characteristics from the Density-Dimension Algorithm, Version 3
Data Set ID:
IS2MPDDA
Data Set Summary:
This data set provides locations and depths of melt ponds in the Multi-Year Arctic Sea Ice Region, calculated from ATLAS/ICESat-2 L2A Global Geolocated Photon Data, Version 5 (ATL03) using an autoadaptive algorithm.