DATA
Antarctic Active Subglacial Lake Inventory from ICESat Altimetry, Version 1
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DOI
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Short Name
NSIDC-0523
Description
This data set contains lake boundaries, volume changes, and gridded elevations for 124 active subglacial lakes beneath the Antarctic ice sheet. Lakes were identified using laser altimetry data obtained from 2003 to 2009 by NASA's Ice, Cloud, and Land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) mission. The data are provided in Keyhole Markup Language (KML), comma-separated values (CSV), and GEOTiff formats, and are available via FTP.
Version
1
Measurement
Cryosphere
› Glaciers/Ice Sheets
› Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation
Processing Level
Level 3
Coverage
Antarctica
Northernmost Latitude
-60.0
Southernmost Latitude
-90.0
Westernmost Longitude
-180.0
Easternmost Longitude
180.0
Time Span(s)
September 1, 2003 to
November 1, 2009
Resolution
-
Projection
-
Platform/Sensor
ICESAT/GLAS
Project
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Data Provider
NSIDC
