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What data subsetting and reformatting services are available for ICESat/GLAS data?

The following table describes the data subsetting and reformatting services that are currently available for ICESat/GLAS HDF5 data via the NASA Earthdata Search tool.

Short name

Title

Subsetting

Reformatting

 

 

Parameter

Spatial (bounding box)

Temporal

Tabular ASCII

GLAH01

GLAS/ICESat L1A Global Altimetry Data (HDF5), Version 33 (GLAH01)

GLAH02

GLAS/ICESat L1A Global Atmosphere Data (HDF5), Version 33 (GLAH02)

 

 

 

 

GLAH03

GLAS/ICESat L1A Global Engineering Data (HDF5), Version 33 (GLAH03)

 

 

 

 

GLAH04

GLAS/ICESat L1A Global Laser Pointing Data (HDF5), Version 33 (GLAH04)

 

 

 

 

GLAH05

GLAS/ICESat L1B Global Waveform-based Range Corrections Data (HDF5), Version 34 (GLAH05)

GLAH06

GLAS/ICESat L1B Global Elevation Data (HDF5), Version 34 (GLAH06)

GLAH07

GLAS/ICESat L1B Global Backscatter Data (HDF5), Version 33 (GLAH07)

GLAH08

GLAS/ICESat L2 Global Planetary Boundary Layer and Elevated Aerosol Layer Heights (HDF5), Version 33 (GLAH08)

GLAH09

GLAS/ICESat L2 Global Cloud Heights for Multi-layer Clouds (HDF5), Version 33 (GLAH09)

GLAH10

GLAS/ICESat L2 Global Aerosol Vertical Structure Data (HDF5), Version 33 (GLAH10)

GLAH11

GLAS/ICESat L2 Global Thin Cloud/Aerosol Optical Depths Data (HDF5), Version 33 (GLAH11)

GLAH12

GLAS/ICESat L2 Antarctic and Greenland Ice Sheet Altimetry Data (HDF5), Version 34 (GLAH12)

GLAH13

GLAS/ICESat L2 Sea Ice Altimetry Data (HDF5), Version 34 (GLAH13)

GLAH14

GLAS/ICEsat L2 Global Land Surface Altimetry Data (HDF5), Version 34 (GLAH14)

GLAH15

GLAS/ICESat L2 Ocean Altimetry Data (HDF5), Version 34 (GLAH15)

 

Last Updated May 2017