ICESat/GLAS

Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation / Geoscience Laser Altimeter System

Data

The following list includes ICESat/GLAS data sets and related products available from the NSIDC DAAC. NOTE: Access to GLAS binary data was removed 01 August, 2017. All GLAS data are available in HDF5 format.

Data for this collection: 15

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NAME	TEMPORAL COVERAGE	PARAMETER(S)
GLAS/ICESat L1A Global Altimetry Data (HDF5), Version 33 (GLAH01)	20 February 2003 - 11 October 2009	WAVEFORM
GLAS/ICESat L1A Global Atmosphere Data (HDF5), Version 33 (GLAH02)	20 February 2003 - 11 October 2009	SENSOR COUNTS
GLAS/ICESat L1A Global Engineering Data (HDF5), Version 33 (GLAH03)	20 February 2003 - 11 October 2009	TOTAL TEMPERATURE
GLAS/ICESat L1A Global Laser Pointing Data (HDF5), Version 33 (GLAH04)	20 February 2003 - 11 October 2009	ATTITUDE CHARACTERISTICSVIEWING GEOMETRY
GLAS/ICESat L1B Global Waveform-based Range Corrections Data (HDF5), Version 34 (GLAH05)	20 February 2003 - 11 October 2009	GLACIER ELEVATION/ICE SHEET ELEVATIONGLACIER TOPOGRAPHY/ICE SHEET TOPOGRAPHYICE SHEETSTERRAIN ELEVATION
GLAS/ICESat L1B Global Elevation Data (HDF5), Version 34 (GLAH06)	20 February 2003 - 11 October 2009	GLACIER ELEVATION/ICE SHEET ELEVATIONGLACIER TOPOGRAPHY/ICE SHEET TOPOGRAPHYICE ROUGHNESSICE SHEETSREFLECTANCESEA SURFACE HEIGHTSEA SURFACE SLOPESURFACE ROUGHNESSTERRAIN ELEVATION
GLAS/ICESat L1B Global Backscatter Data (HDF5), Version 33 (GLAH07)	20 February 2003 - 11 October 2009	AEROSOL BACKSCATTERSCATTERINGTERRAIN ELEVATION
GLAS/ICESat L2 Global Planetary Boundary Layer and Elevated Aerosol Layer Heights (HDF5), Version 33 (GLAH08)	20 February 2003 - 11 October 2009	AEROSOL PARTICLE PROPERTIESPLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYER HEIGHT
GLAS/ICESat L2 Global Cloud Heights for Multi-layer Clouds (HDF5), Version 33 (GLAH09)	20 February 2003 - 11 October 2009	CLOUD HEIGHTCLOUD VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION
GLAS/ICESat L2 Global Aerosol Vertical Structure Data (HDF5), Version 33 (GLAH10)	25 September 2003 - 11 October 2009	AEROSOL BACKSCATTERAEROSOL EXTINCTIONCLOUD REFLECTANCETRANSMITTANCE
GLAS/ICESat L2 Global Thin Cloud/Aerosol Optical Depths Data (HDF5), Version 33 (GLAH11)	20 February 2003 - 11 October 2009	AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTH/THICKNESSCLOUD OPTICAL DEPTH/THICKNESS
GLAS/ICESat L2 Global Antarctic and Greenland Ice Sheet Altimetry Data (HDF5), Version 34 (GLAH12)	20 February 2003 - 11 October 2009	GLACIER ELEVATION/ICE SHEET ELEVATIONGLACIER TOPOGRAPHY/ICE SHEET TOPOGRAPHYICE SHEETSREFLECTANCE
GLAS/ICESat L2 Sea Ice Altimetry Data (HDF5), Version 34 (GLAH13)	20 February 2003 - 11 October 2009	ICE ROUGHNESSREFLECTANCESEA ICE ELEVATION
GLAS/ICESat L2 Global Land Surface Altimetry Data (HDF5), Version 34 (GLAH14)	20 February 2003 - 11 October 2009	REFLECTANCETERRAIN ELEVATION
GLAS/ICESat L2 Ocean Altimetry Data (HDF5), Version 34 (GLAH15)	20 February 2003 - 11 October 2009	REFLECTANCESEA SURFACE HEIGHTSEA SURFACE SLOPE