Name: Likely Basal Thermal State of the Greenland Ice Sheet, Version 1
Creator: National Snow and Ice Data Center
Keywords: THERMAL PROPERTIES

Likely Basal Thermal State of the Greenland Ice Sheet, Version 1

Data set id:

RDBTS4

DOI: 10.5067/R4MWDWWUWQF9

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MacGregor, J. A., Fahnestock, M., Catania, G., Paden, J., Gogineni, P., Morlighem, M., Colgan, W., Nowicki, S. M., Clow, G., Aschwanden, A., Price, S. F. & Seroussi, H. (2017). Likely Basal Thermal State of the Greenland Ice Sheet. (RDBTS4, Version 1). [Data Set]. Boulder, Colorado USA. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/R4MWDWWUWQF9. [describe subset used if applicable]. Date Accessed 10-25-2025.

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Version Summary

Initial release.

Overview

The Likely Basal Thermal State of the Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) product contains key data sets that show how the likely basal thermal state was inferred from existing airborne and satellite data sets and recent methods, and provides a synthesis mask of the likely basal thermal state over the Greenland Ice Sheet.

Parameter(s):

THERMAL PROPERTIES

Platform(s):

AQUA

DC-8

P-3B

TERRA

Sensor(s):

ACORDS

ICORDS

MCRDS

MCoRDS

MODIS

Data Format(s):

netCDF-4

XML

Temporal Coverage:

23 June 1993 to 26 April 2013

Temporal Resolution:

Varies

Spatial Resolution:

5 km

5 km

Spatial Reference System(s):

WGS 84
EPSG:4326

Spatial Coverage:

N:
81.51
S:
58.91
E:
6.62
W:
-88.33

Blue outlined yellow areas on the map below indicate the spatial coverage for this data set.

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