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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 a multi-year ice-sheet-wide velocity mosaic for Greenland, derived from Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR), Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), and Landsat 8 optical imagery data.

See <a href="http://nsidc.org/data/measures/gimp">Greenland Ice Mapping Project (GIMP)</a> for related data.

Version Description

Initial release

Product Summary

Platforms
ALOS ,
ERS-1 ,
ERS-2 ,
LANDSAT-8 ,
RADARSAT-1 ,
RADARSAT-2 ,
TSX
Instruments
PALSAR ,
SAR ,
OLI
Spatial Extent

N: 83 S: 60 E: -14 W: -75

Spatial Resolution
250 Meters x 250 Meters
Spatial Reference System(s)
WGS 84 / NSIDC Sea Ice Polar Stereographic North (EPSG:3413)
Location
GREENLAND
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
CARTESIAN
Temporal Extent
1995-12-01 to 2015-10-31
Concept ID
C3291956575-NSIDC_CPRD
Data State
COMPLETE
Number of Files/Granules
1
Processing Level
3
Published
Science Keywords
Ice Velocity

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

Joughin, I., Smith, B., Howat, I., & Scambos, T. (2016). MEaSUREs Multi-year Greenland Ice Sheet Velocity Mosaic, Version 1 [Data set]. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/QUA5Q9SVMSJG Date Accessed: 2026-04-29

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A decade of winter supraglacial lake drainage across Northeast Greenland using C-band SAR Dean, Connor Wolfgang, Scharien, Randall, Willis, Ian, McDougall, Kali Ann Land Ice/Ocean Classification, Ice Velocity
Runoff from Greenland's firn areawhy do MODIS, RCMs and a firn model disagree? Machguth, Horst, Tedstone, Andrew, Kuipers Munneke, Peter, Brils, Max, Noel, Brice, Clerx, Nicole, Jullien, Nicolas, Fettweis, Xavier, van den Broeke, Michiel Ice Velocity, Reflectance
A gradient-boosted tree framework to model the ice thickness of the world's glaciers (IceBoost v1. 1) Maffezzoli, Niccolo, Rignot, Eric, Barbante, Carlo, Petersen, Troels, Vascon, Sebastiano Ice Velocity, Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation, Glacier Thickness/Ice Sheet Thickness
A unified framework for large-scale fabric evolution models and anisotropic rheologies Richards, Daniel H., Mantelli, Elisa, Pegler, Samuel S., Piazolo, Sandra Ice Velocity
Emulator-based Bayesian calibration of a subglacial drainage model Hill, Tim, Flowers, Gwenn E., Bingham, Derek, Hoffman, Matthew J. Ice Velocity
Double Reflections in Polarized Radar Data Reveal Ice Fabric in the North East Greenland Ice Stream Nymand, Niels F., Lilien, David A., Gerber, Tamara A., Hvidberg, Christine S., Steinhage, Daniel, Gogineni, Prasad, Taylor, Drew, DahlJensen, Dorthe Ice Velocity, RADAR IMAGERY, Sea Ice Elevation, Sea Ice Elevation
Detecting Arctic Icebergs in Sea Ice in L-Band SAR Images Using a Multiscale CFAR Algorithm Frch, Laust, Dierking, Wolfgang, Hughes, Nick, Doulgeris, Anthony P. Ice Velocity
Ice Front and Melange Dynamics at Kangerlussuaq Glacier, Eastern Greenland, Since 1981, and Future Stability Lippert, E. Y. H., Morlighem, M., Cheng, G., Berg, D. L., Hassan, J., Khan, S. A. Ice Velocity
Historically consistent mass loss projections of the Greenland ice sheet Rahlves, Charlotte, Goelzer, Heiko, Born, Andreas, Langebroek, Petra M. Ice Velocity
Mechanisms for upstream migration of firn aquifer drainage: preliminary observations from Helheim Glacier, Greenland Mejia, Jessica Z., Poinar, Kristin, Meyer, Colin R., Sommers, Aleah N., Chu, Winnie Air Temperature, Precipitation Rate, 24 Hour Maximum Temperature, 24 Hour Minimum Temperature, Ice Velocity
Multifidelity uncertainty quantification for ice sheet simulations Aretz, Nicole, Gunzburger, Max, Morlighem, Mathieu, Willcox, Karen Ice Velocity
The slow violence of waste flowing through the Greenland Ice Sheet Kuentz, Lily, Ryan, J. C., Carey, M. Ice Velocity
Failure strength of glacier ice inferred from Greenland crevasses Grinsted, Aslak, Rathmann, Nicholas Mossor, Mottram, Ruth, Solgaard, Anne Munck, Mathiesen, Joachim, Hvidberg, Christine Schtt Ice Velocity
Geologic Provinces Beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet Constrained by MacGregor, Joseph A., Colgan, William T., Paxman, Guy J. G., Tinto, Kirsty J., Csatho, Beata, Darbyshire, Fiona A., Fahnestock, Mark A., Kokfelt, Thomas F., MacKie, Emma J., Morlighem, Mathieu, Sergienko, Olga V. Ice Velocity, Magnetic Field, Gravity, Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation
Modeling a Century of Change: Kangerlussuaq Glacier's Mass Loss From 1933 to 2021 Lippert, E. Y. H., Morlighem, M., Cheng, G., Khan, S. A. Ice Velocity, Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation
Predicting the Onset of Subglacial Drainage Channels Warburton, K. L. P., Meyer, C. R., Sommers, A. N. Ice Velocity
Projections of precipitation and temperatures in Greenland and the impact of spatially uniform anomalies on the evolution of the ice sheet Bochow, Nils, Poltronieri, Anna, Boers, Niklas Ice Velocity
Seawater Intrusion in the Observed Grounding Zone of Petermann Glacier Ehrenfeucht, Shivani, Rignot, Eric, Morlighem, Mathieu Ice Velocity
Validating ensemble historical simulations of Upernavik Isstrm (19852019) using observations of surface velocity and elevation Jager, Eliot, Gillet-Chaulet, Fabien, Mouginot, Jeremie, Millan, Romain Ice Velocity, Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation, Ice Roughness, Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation, Glacier Topography/Ice Sheet Topography, Ice Sheets, Reflectance, Sea Surface Height, Sea Surface Slope, Surface Roughness, Terrain Elevation, Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation
A parallel implementation of the confined-unconfined aquifer system Fischler, Yannic, Kleiner, Thomas, Bischof, Christian, Schmiedel, Jeremie, Sayag, Roiy, Emunds, Raban, Oestreich, Lennart Frederik, Humbert, Angelika Ice Velocity
Bridging the Gap Between Experimental and Natural Fabrics: Modeling Ice Stream Fabric Evolution and its Comparison With IceCore Data Richards, Daniel H., Pegler, Samuel S., Piazolo, Sandra, Stoll, Nicolas, Weikusat, Ilka Ice Velocity
Direct measurement of warm Atlantic Intermediate Water close to the Bentley, Michael J., Smith, James A., Jamieson, Stewart S. R., Lindeman, Margaret R., Rea, Brice R., Humbert, Angelika, Lane, Timothy P., Darvill, Christopher M., Lloyd, Jeremy M., Straneo, Fiamma, Helm, Veit, Roberts, David H. Ice Velocity
Firn aquifer water discharges into crevasses across Southeast Greenland Cicero, Eric, Poinar, Kristin, Jones-Ivey, Renette, Petty, Alek A., Sperhac, Jeanette M., Patra, Abani, Briner, Jason P. Ice Velocity
Improved estimation of the bulk ice crystal fabric asymmetry from polarimetric phase co-registration Zeising, Ole, Gerber, Tamara Annina, Eisen, Olaf, Ershadi, M. Reza, Stoll, Nicolas, Weikusat, Ilka, Humbert, Angelika Ice Velocity
Overshooting the critical threshold for the Greenland ice sheet Bochow, Nils, Poltronieri, Anna, Robinson, Alexander, Montoya, Marisa, Rypdal, Martin, Boers, Niklas Ice Velocity
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