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Description

This data set provides time series of land-ice surface heights derived from the ICESat-2 ATL06 Land Ice Height product. It is intended primarily as an input for higher level gridded products, but can also be used on its own as a spatially organized product that allows easy access to height-change information derived from ICESat-2 observations.

Version Description

Changes for this version include:
  • Added cycles 12, 13, 14, and 15 of the ICESat-2 data.
  • Removed orbit specific parameters from /orbit_info group as crossing time, rgt, orbit_number, and sc_orient are not needed for ATL11.
  • Implemented mean-tide inclusion for converting geoid heights.

Product Summary

Platforms
ICESat-2
Instruments
ATLAS
Spatial Extent

N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180

Spatial Resolution
60 Meters
Spatial Reference System(s)
WGS 84 (EPSG:4326)
Location
POLAR
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
GEODETIC
Temporal Extent
2019-03-29 to 2022-06-21
Temporal Resolution
91 Day
Concept ID
C2245754799-NSIDC_CPRD
Data State
DEPRECATED
Number of Files/Granules
0
Processing Level
3
Published
Science Keywords
Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation

Citation

Citation is critically important for dataset documentation and discovery. This dataset is openly shared, without restriction, in accordance with the EOSDIS Data Use and Citation Guidance.

Copy Citation

Smith, B., Dickinson, S., Jelley, B., Neumann, T., Hancock, D., Lee, J., & Harbeck, K. (2022). ATLAS/ICESat-2 L3B Slope-Corrected Land Ice Height Time Series, Version 5 [Dataset]. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/ATLAS/ATL11.005 Date Accessed: 2026-07-28

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Assessment of the Ice, Cloud, and Land Elevation Satellite-2 Performance Magruder, Lori A., Neumann, Tom, Kurtz, Nathan, Sutterley, Tyler C., Hancock, David, Vornberger, Patricia, Robbins, John, Smith, Benjamin Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation, Freeboard, Sea Ice Elevation, Terrain Elevation, Sea Surface Height
Potential to recover a record of Holocene climate and sea ice from Muller Ice Cap, Canada Lilien, David Armond, Nymand, Niels Fabrin, Gerber, Tamara Annina, Steinhage, Daniel, Jansen, Daniela, Thomson, Laura, Myers, Madeline, Franke, Steven, Taylor, Drew, Gogineni, Prasad, Lemes, Marcos, Vinther, Bo Mllese, Dahl-Jensen, Dorthe Ice Velocity, RADAR IMAGERY, Sea Ice Elevation, Sea Ice Elevation, Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation
Multi-decadal collapse of East Antarcticas CongerGlenzer Ice Shelf Walker, Catherine C., Millstein, Joanna D., Miles, Bertie W. J., Cook, Sue, Fraser, Alexander D., Colliander, Andreas, Misra, Sidharth, Trusel, Luke D., Adusumilli, Susheel, Roberts, Chancelor, Fricker, Helen A. Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation, Ice Depth/Thickness, Ice Depth/Thickness, Sea Ice Elevation, Terrain Elevation, Bed Elevation, Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation, Glacier Topography/Ice Sheet Topography, Ice Sheets, Reflectance, Ice Velocity
A New Model for Elevation Change Estimation in Antarctica from Photon-counting ICESat-2 altimetric Data Li, Rongxing, He, Youquan, Li, Hongwei, Gu, Yuanyuan, Li, Guojun, Qiao, Gang, Xie, Huan, Hao, Tong, Cui, Xiangbin Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation, Ice Roughness, Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation
Modification of Pacific water in the northern Canadian Arctic Dmitrenko, Igor A., Kirillov, Sergei A., Rudels, Bert, Geilfus, Nicolas-Xavier, Ehn, Jens, Babb, David G., Lilien, David A., Dahl-Jensen, Dorthe Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation, Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation, Glacier Thickness/Ice Sheet Thickness
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