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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.

Product Summary

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

N: 83.56 S: 58.91 E: 6.62 W: -88.33

Spatial Resolution
5 Kilometers x 5 Kilometers
Geographic Region
GREENLAND
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
CARTESIAN
Temporal Extent
1993-06-23 to 2017-05-20
Concept ID
C3205011603-NSIDC_CPRD
Data State
ACTIVE
Number of Files/Granules
1
Processing Level
4
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.

Copy Citation

MacGregor, J., Chu, W., Colgan, W., Fahnestock, M., Felikson, D., Karlsson, N., Nowicki, S., & Studinger, M. (2022). Likely Basal Thermal State of the Greenland Ice Sheet, Version 2 [Data set]. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/RQO5Q6F6E6LY Date Accessed: 2025-12-14

Documents

USER'S GUIDE

GENERAL DOCUMENTATION