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Description

This data set provides monthly, gridded, winter Arctic sea ice thickness, freeboard, ice density, snow depth, and snow density estimates derived from ICESat-2 L4 Along-Track Sea Ice Thickness (IS2SITDAT4).

Product Summary

Platforms
ICESat-2 ,
MODELS
Instruments
ATLAS ,
NOT APPLICABLE
Spatial Extent

N: 88 S: 30 E: 180 W: -180

Spatial Resolution
25 Kilometers x 25 Kilometers
Geographic Region
ARCTIC OCEAN
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
CARTESIAN
Temporal Extent
2018-11-01 to 2025-04-30
Concept ID
C3878683537-NSIDC_CPRD
Data State
ACTIVE
Number of Files/Granules
54
Processing Level
4
Science Keywords
Ice Depth/Thickness ,
Snow Depth

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

Petty, A., Kurtz, N., Kwok, R., Markus, T., Neumann, T., & Keeney, N. (2025). ICESat-2 L4 Monthly Gridded Sea Ice Thickness, Version 4 [Data set]. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/TXDHDJ1JT0CG Date Accessed: 2025-12-13

Documents

USER'S GUIDE

GENERAL DOCUMENTATION