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Description

This data set contains land ice height changes and change rates for the Antarctic ice sheet and regions around the Arctic gridded at four spatial resolutions (1 km, 10 km, 20 km, and 40 km). The data are derived from the ATLAS/ICESat-2 L3B Slope-Corrected Land Ice Height Time Series product (ATL11).

Version Description

Version 4 was derived from ATL11 Version 6 and includes the following changes: relax constraints for higher velocity ice sheets in Greenland; smooth error estimates before interpolation to correct for zero error conditions reported; correct longitude metadata extents for Antarctic regions; and remove data from cycle 1 (Quarter 4 of 2018) to avoid artifacts from previous geolocation challenges.

Product Summary

Platforms
ICESat-2
Instruments
ATLAS
Spatial Extent

N: 90 S: 59 E: 180 W: -180

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N: -60 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180

Spatial Reference System(s)
Multiple EPSG codes (see User Guide)
Location
POLAR
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
GEODETIC
Temporal Extent
2019-01-01 to 2025-11-19
Temporal Resolution
Varies
Concept ID
C3162334027-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., Jelley, B. P., Dickinson, S., Sutterley, T., Neumann, T., & Harbeck, K. (2024). ATLAS/ICESat-2 L3B Gridded Antarctic and Greenland Height Change, Version 4 [Dataset]. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/ATLAS/ATL15.004 Date Accessed: 2026-07-28

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A data assimilation framework for improving greenland ice sheet surface mass balance using simulated gridded ICESat-2 elevation change data Navari, Mahdi, Stevens, C Max, Medley, Brooke, Felikson, Denis, Margulis, Steven A, Fettweis, Xavier Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation
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
Contrasting melt regime in the Ice Grounding Zone of Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica Gadi, Ratnakar, Rignot, Eric, Menemenlis, Dimitris, Scheuchl, Bernd Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation
Estimation of the state and parameters in ice sheet model using an Choi, Youngmin, Petty, Alek, Felikson, Denis, Poterjoy, Jonathan Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation
pyTMD: Python-based tidal prediction software Sutterley, Tyler C., Howard, Susan L., Padman, Laurie, Siegfried, Matthew R. Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation
A West Antarctic grounding-zone environment shaped by episodic water flow Horgan, Huw J., Stewart, Craig, Stevens, Craig, Dunbar, Gavin, Balfoort, Linda, Schmidt, Britney E., Washam, Peter, Werder, Mauro A., Mandeno, Darcy, Marschalek, James, Hulbe, Christina, Holschuh, Nicholas, Levy, Richard, Hurwitz, Benjamin, Jendersie, Stefan, Johnson, Katelyn, Lawrence, Justin, Morgenstern, Regine, Mullen, Andrew D., Quartini, Enrica, Sauthoff, Wilson, Siegfried, Matthew, Still, Holly, Thorpe-Loversuch, Sam, van de Flierdt, Tina, Venturelli, Ryan, Whiteford, Arran Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation
Coincident Lake Drainage and Grounding Line Retreat at Engelhardt Freer, B. I. D., Marsh, O. J., Fricker, H. A., Hogg, A. E., Siegfried, M. R., Floricioiu, D., Sauthoff, W., Rigby, R., Wilson, S. F. Ice Velocity, Grounding Line, Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation, Glacier Topography/Ice Sheet Topography, Ice Roughness, Ice Sheets, Reflectance, Sea Surface Height, Sea Surface Slope, Surface Roughness, Terrain Elevation
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