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Description
This data set, part of the NASA Making Earth System Data Records for Use in Research Environments (MEaSUREs) program, contains seasonal (winter) ice-sheet-wide velocity maps for Greenland derived from Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) data obtained by RADARSAT-1, the Advanced Land Observation Satellite (ALOS), and the TerraSAR-X satellite.
Product Summary
Platforms
Instruments
PALSAR
,
SAR
Spatial Extent
Spatial Resolution
500 Meters x 500 Meters
Location
GREENLAND
,
ARCTIC
,
POLAR
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
CARTESIAN
Temporal Extent
2008-12-01 to 2009-02-28
Temporal Resolution
1 Year
Concept ID
C3291175950-NSIDC_CPRD
Data State
DEPRECATED
Number of Files/Granules
0
Processing Level
3
Published
Updated
Science Keywords
Ice Velocity
Citation
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Joughin, I., Smith, B., Howat, I., & Scambos, T. (2010). MEaSUREs Greenland Ice Sheet Velocity Map from InSAR Data, Version 1 [Dataset]. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/MEASURES/CRYOSPHERE/NSIDC-0478.001 Date Accessed: 2026-08-01
Joughin, I., Smith, B., Howat, I., & Scambos, T. (2010). MEaSUREs Greenland Ice Sheet Velocity Map from InSAR Data, Version 1 [Dataset]. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/MEASURES/CRYOSPHERE/NSIDC-0478.001 Date Accessed: 2026-08-01
Joughin, Ian, et al. “MEaSUREs Greenland Ice Sheet Velocity Map from InSAR Data, Version 1.” NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center, 2010, https://doi.org/10.5067/MEASURES/CRYOSPHERE/NSIDC-0478.001. Date Accessed: 2026-08-01
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Publications Citing This Dataset
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| Title | Year Sort ascending | Author | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linking crystallographic orientation and ice stream dynamics: evidence from the EastGRIP ice core | Stoll, Nicolas, Weikusat, Ilka, Jansen, Daniela, Bons, Paul, Daranyi, Kyra, Westhoff, Julien, Llorens, Maria-Gema, Wallis, David, Eichler, Jan, Saruya, Tomotaka, Homma, Tomoyuki, Rasmussen, Sune Olander, Sinnl, Giulia, Svensson, Anders, Drury, Martyn, Wilhelms, Frank, Kipfstuhl, Sepp, Dahl-Jensen, Dorthe, Kerch, Johanna | Ice Velocity | |
| A stratigraphy-based method for reconstructing ice core orientation | Westhoff, Julien, Stoll, Nicolas, Franke, Steven, Weikusat, Ilka, Bons, Paul, Kerch, Johanna, Jansen, Daniela, Kipfstuhl, Sepp, Dahl-Jensen, Dorthe | Ice Velocity | |
| How different analysis and interpolation methods affect the accuracy of ice surface elevation changes inferred from satellite altimetry | Stroenreuther, Undine, Horwath, Martin, Schroder, Ludwig | Ice Velocity | |
| LIVVkit 2.1: automated and extensible ice sheet model validation | Evans, Katherine J., Kennedy, Joseph H., Lu, Dan, Forrester, Mary M., Price, Stephen, Fyke, Jeremy, Bennett, Andrew R., Hoffman, Matthew J., Tezaur, Irina, Zender, Charles S., Vizcaino, Miren | Ice Velocity | |
| Large spatial variations in the flux balance along the front of a Greenland tidewater glacier | Wagner, Till J. W., Straneo, Fiamma, Richards, Clark G., Slater, Donald A., Stevens, Laura A., Das, Sarah B., Singh, Hanumant | Ice Velocity | |
| Submarine moraines in Southeast Greenland fjords reveal contrasting outletglacier behavior since the Last Glacial Maximum | Batchelor, C. L., Dowdeswell, J. A., Rignot, E., Millan, R. | Ice Velocity | |
| Climate response to the meltwater runoff from Greenland ice sheet: evolving sensitivity to discharging locations | Liu, Yonggang, Hallberg, Robert, Sergienko, Olga, Samuels, Bonnie L., Harrison, Matthew, Oppenheimer, Michael | Ice Velocity | |
| Basal control of supraglacial meltwater catchments on the Greenland Ice Sheet | Crozier, Josh, Karlstrom, Leif, Yang, Kang | Ice Velocity, Bathymetry, Bed Elevation, Glacier/Ice Sheet Thickness, Terrain Elevation | |
| Greenland Ice Sheet: Higher Nonlinearity of Ice Flow Significantly Reduces Estimated Basal Motion | Bons, P. D., Kleiner, T., Llorens, M.G., Prior, D. J., Sachau, T., Weikusat, I., Jansen, D. | Ice Velocity | |
| Submarine landforms reveal varying rates and styles of deglaciation in North-West Greenland fjords | Batchelor, C.L., Dowdeswell, J.A., Rignot, E. | Ice Velocity | |
| A complete map of Greenland ice velocity derived from satellite data collected over 20 years | JOUGHIN, IAN, SMITH, BEN E., HOWAT, IAN M. | Ice Velocity | |
| Design and results of the ice sheet model initialisation experiments initMIP-Greenland: an ISMIP6 intercomparison | Goelzer, Heiko, Nowicki, Sophie, Edwards, Tamsin, Beckley, Matthew, Abe-Ouchi, Ayako, Aschwanden, Andy, Calov, Reinhard, Gagliardini, Olivier, Gillet-Chaulet, Fabien, Golledge, Nicholas R., Gregory, Jonathan, Greve, Ralf, Humbert, Angelika, Huybrechts, Philippe, Kennedy, Joseph H., Larour, Eric, Lipscomb, William H., Le clec'h, Sebastien, Lee, Victoria, Morlighem, Mathieu, Pattyn, Frank, Payne, Antony J., Rodehacke, Christian, Ruckamp, Martin, Saito, Fuyuki, Schlegel, Nicole, Seroussi, Helene, Shepherd, Andrew, Sun, Sainan, van de Wal, Roderik, Ziemen, Florian A. | Ice Velocity | |
| Large ice loss variability at Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden glacier, northeast-Greenland | Mayer, Christoph, Schaffer, Janin, Hattermann, Tore, Floricioiu, Dana, Krieger, Lukas, Dodd, Paul A., Kanzow, Torsten, Licciulli, Carlo, Schannwell, Clemens | Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation, Ice Roughness, Ice Velocity | |
| Modelling seasonal meltwater forcing of the velocity of land-terminating margins of the Greenland Ice Sheet | Koziol, Conrad P., Arnold, Neil | Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation, Ice Velocity | |
| Incorporating modelled subglacial hydrology into inversions for basal drag | Koziol, Conrad P., Arnold, Neil | Ice Velocity | |
| Error sources in basal yield stress inversions for Jakobshavn Isbr, Greenland, derived from residual patterns of misfit to observations | HABERMANN, MARIJKE, TRUFFER, MARTIN, MAXWELL, DAVID | Ice Velocity | |
| Iceberg properties and distributions in three Greenlandic fjords using satellite imagery | Sulak, Daniel J., Sutherland, David A., Enderlin, Ellyn M., Stearns, Leigh A., Hamilton, Gordon S. | Ice Velocity | |
| Formation and development of supraglacial lakes in the percolation zone of the Greenland ice sheet | CHEN, CHRISTINE, HOWAT, IAN M., DE LA PENA, SANTIAGO | Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation, Ice Roughness, Glacier Topography/Ice Sheet Topography, RADAR IMAGERY, Sea Ice Elevation, Sea Ice Elevation, Snow Cover, Ice Velocity | |
| Asynchronous behavior of outlet glaciers feeding Godthabsfjord (Nuup Kangerlua) and the triggering of Narsap Sermia's retreat in SW Greenland | MOTYKA, ROMAN J., CASSOTTO, RYAN, TRUFFER, MARTIN, KJELDSEN, KRISTIAN K., VAN AS, DIRK, KORSGAARD, NIELS J., FAHNESTOCK, MARK, HOWAT, IAN, LANGEN, PETER L., MORTENSEN, JOHN, LENNERT, KUNUK, RYSGAARD, SREN | REFLECTED INFRARED, THERMAL INFRARED, VISIBLE IMAGERY, Ice Velocity | |
| Quantifying supraglacial meltwater pathways in the Paakitsoq region, West Greenland | KOZIOL, CONRAD, ARNOLD, NEIL, POPE, ALLEN, COLGAN, WILLIAM | Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation, Ice Velocity | |
| Internally drained catchments dominate supraglacial hydrology of the | Yang, Kang, Smith, Laurence C. | Ice Velocity | |
| Increased mass loss and asynchronous behavior of marine-terminating outlet glaciers at Upernavik Isstrm, NW Greenland | Larsen, Signe Hillerup, Khan, Shfaqat Abbas, Ahlstrm, Andreas Peter, Hvidberg, Christine Schtt, Willis, Michael John, Andersen, Signe Bech | Ice Velocity | |
| Distribution of preferred ice crystal orientation determined from seismic anisotropy: Evidence from Jakobshavn Isbr and the North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling ... | Velez, Jose A., Tsoflias, Georgios P., Black, Ross A., Van der Veen, Cornelis J., Anandakrishnan, Sridhar | Ice Velocity | |
| Fluvial supraglacial landscape evolution on the Greenland Ice Sheet | Karlstrom, Leif, Yang, Kang | Ice Velocity | |
| Subglacial lake drainage detected beneath the Greenland ice sheet | Palmer, Steven, McMillan, Malcolm, Morlighem, Mathieu | Ice Velocity, Terrain Elevation |