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Description

The Likely Basal Thermal State of the Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) product contains key data sets that show how the likely basal thermal state was inferred from existing airborne and satellite data sets and recent methods, and provides a synthesis mask of the likely basal thermal state over the Greenland Ice Sheet.

Version Description

Initial release.

Product Summary

Platforms
Aqua ,
DC-8 ,
P-3B ,
Terra
Instruments
MODIS ,
ACORDS ,
ICORDS ,
MCRDS ,
MCoRDS
Projects
MULTI_NASA
Spatial Extent

N: 81.51 S: 58.91 E: 6.62 W: -88.33

Spatial Resolution
5 Kilometers x 5 Kilometers
Spatial Reference System(s)
WGS 84 (EPSG:4326)
Location
GREENLAND
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
CARTESIAN
Temporal Extent
1993-06-23 to 2013-04-26
Temporal Resolution
Varies
Concept ID
C3205011482-NSIDC_CPRD
Data State
DEPRECATED
Number of Files/Granules
0
Processing Level
4
Published
Science Keywords
THERMAL PROPERTIES

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.

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MacGregor, J., Fahnestock, M., Catania, G., Paden, J., Gogineni, P., Morlighem, M., Colgan, W., Nowicki, S., Clow, G. D., Aschwanden, A., Price, S., & Seroussi, H. (2017). Likely Basal Thermal State of the Greenland Ice Sheet, Version 1 [Dataset]. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/R4MWDWWUWQF9 Date Accessed: 2026-08-04

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Threshold response to melt drives large-scale bed weakening in Greenland Maier, Nathan, Gimbert, Florent, Gillet-Chaulet, Fabien Land Ice/Ocean Classification, Ice Velocity, Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation, THERMAL PROPERTIES, Bathymetry, Bed Elevation, Glacier/Ice Sheet Thickness, Terrain Elevation
Basal traction mainly dictated by hard-bed physics over grounded regions Maier, Nathan, Gimbert, Florent, Gillet-Chaulet, Fabien, Gilbert, Adrien Ice Velocity, Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation, THERMAL PROPERTIES, Bathymetry, Bed Elevation, Glacier/Ice Sheet Thickness, Terrain Elevation
Subglacial roughness of the Greenland Ice Sheet: relationship with contemporary ice velocity and geology Cooper, Michael A., Jordan, Thomas M., Schroeder, Dustin M., Siegert, Martin J., Williams, Christopher N., Bamber, Jonathan L. THERMAL PROPERTIES
A constraint upon the basal water distribution and thermal state of the Greenland Ice Sheet from radar bed echoes Jordan, Thomas M., Williams, Christopher N., Schroeder, Dustin M., Martos, Yasmina M., Cooper, Michael A., Siegert, Martin J., Paden, John D., Huybrechts, Philippe, Bamber, Jonathan L. Ice Velocity, THERMAL PROPERTIES
Self-affine subglacial roughness: consequences for radar scattering and basal water discrimination in northern Greenland Jordan, Thomas M., Cooper, Michael A., Schroeder, Dustin M., Williams, Christopher N., Paden, John D., Siegert, Martin J., Bamber, Jonathan L. THERMAL PROPERTIES
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