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GLAS/ICESat L2 Sea Ice Altimetry Data (HDF5)

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DOI

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Short Name

GLAH13

Description

GLAH13 contains sea ice and open ocean elevations corrected for geodetic and atmospheric affects, calculated from algorithms fine-tuned for sea ice returns. Granules contain 14 orbits of data within a sea ice mask.

Version

034

Measurement

CRYOSPHERE › SEA ICE › REFLECTANCE › LASER REFLECTANCE
CRYOSPHERE › SEA ICE › SEA ICE ELEVATION
OCEANS › SEA ICE › REFLECTANCE › LASER REFLECTANCE
CRYOSPHERE › SEA ICE › ICE ROUGHNESS
OCEANS › SEA ICE › ICE ROUGHNESS
OCEANS › SEA ICE › SEA ICE ELEVATION

Processing Level

2

Coverage

Global

Northernmost Latitude

90.0

Southernmost Latitude

-90.0

Westernmost Longitude

-180.0

Easternmost Longitude

180.0

Time Span(s)

January 13, 2003 to January 13, 2010

Resolution

-

Projection

-

Platform/Sensor

ICESat/LA

Project

-

Data Provider

NSIDC

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