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ATLAS/ICESat-2 L3B Gridded Antarctic and Arctic Land Ice Height V004 004 ICESat-2 ATLAS 2019-01-01 to Present

N: -60 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180

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N: 90 S: 59 E: 180 W: -180

100 Meters x 100 Meters netCDF-4
ATLAS/ICESat-2 L3B Gridded Antarctic and Arctic Land Ice Height V005 005 ICESat-2 ATLAS 2019-01-01 to Present

N: -60 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180

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N: 90 S: 59 E: 180 W: -180

100 Meters x 100 Meters netCDF-4
ATLAS/ICESat-2 L3B Monthly Gridded Atmosphere V006 006 ICESat-2 ATLAS 2018-10-13 to Present

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

1 Decimal Degrees x 1 Decimal Degrees HDF5
ATLAS/ICESat-2 L3B Slope-Corrected Land Ice Height Time Series V006 006 ICESat-2 ATLAS 2019-03-29 to 2025-03-02

N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180

60 Meters HDF5
ATLAS/ICESat-2 L3B Slope-Corrected Land Ice Height Time Series V007 007 ICESat-2 ATLAS 2019-03-29 to Present

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

60 Meters HDF5
ATLAS/ICESat-2 L3B Weekly Gridded Atmosphere V006 006 ICESat-2 ATLAS 2018-10-13 to Present

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

2 Decimal Degrees x 2 Decimal Degrees HDF5
Bootstrap Sea Ice Concentrations from Nimbus-7 SMMR and DMSP SSM/I-SSMIS V004 4 DMSP 5D-2/F11, DMSP 5D-2/F13, DMSP 5D-2/F8, DMSP 5D-3/F17, Nimbus-7 SSM/I, SSMIS, SMMR 1978-11-01 to Present

N: 90 S: 30 E: 180 W: -180

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N: -39 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180

25 Kilometers x 25 Kilometers netCDF-4
BOREAS AES Five-day Averaged Surface Meteorological and Upper Air Data 1 METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS DEWPOINT HYDROMETERS, DRY BULB THERMOMETERS, VISUAL OBSERVATIONS, RAIN GAUGES, SNOW MEASURING ROD, WET BULB THERMOMETERS, BAROMETERS, ANEMOMETERS 1976-01-01 to 1997-01-01

N: 57.35 S: 52.17 E: -97.83 W: -107.87

ASCII
BOREAS Derived Surface Meteorological Data 1 FIXED OBSERVATION STATIONS, METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS THERMOCOUPLES, HUMIDITY SENSORS, WIND MONITOR, BAROMETERS, NET RADIOMETERS, PYRANOMETERS, RAIN GAUGES, ULTRASONIC DEPTH GAUGE, INFRARED THERMOMETERS, Pyrgeometer, LICOR QUANTUM SENSOR 1994-01-01 to 1996-12-31

N: 56.25 S: 53.42 E: -97.23 W: -106.32

ASCII
BOREAS Follow-On DSP-04 1994 ERS-1 Level-4 Landscape Freeze/Thaw Maps, Ver. 1.0 1 ERS-1 AMI 1994-02-14 to 1994-12-14

N: 60 S: 48 E: -90 W: -111

Binary
BOREAS HYD-03 Subcanopy Meteorological Data 1 METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS WIND MONITOR, Pyrgeometer, HUMIDITY SENSORS, TEMPERATURE PROBES, INFRARED THERMOMETERS 1994-02-06 to 1996-03-08

N: 53.99 S: 53.63 E: -104.69 W: -106.2

ASCII
BOREAS RSS-08 BIOME-BGC Model Simulations at Tower Flux Sites in 1994 1 NOT APPLICABLE NOT APPLICABLE 1994-01-01 to 1994-12-31

N: 55.9 S: 53.63 E: -98.29 W: -106.2

ASCII
BOREAS RSS-08 Snow Maps Derived from Landsat TM Imagery 1 LANDSAT-5 TM 1993-01-18 to 1994-02-06

N: 54.78 S: 52.9 E: -103.43 W: -106.91

Binary
BOREAS RSS-17 1994 ERS-1 Level-3 Freeze/Thaw Backscatter Change Images 1 ERS-1 SAR 1994-01-03 to 1994-03-19

N: 59.98 S: 50.09 E: -93.5 W: -111

Binary
CALFIN Subseasonal Greenland Glacial Terminus Positions V001 1 LANDSAT-4, LANDSAT-5, LANDSAT-7, LANDSAT-8 MSS, TM, ETM+, OLI 1972-09-06 to 2019-06-25

N: 80 S: 60 E: -15 W: -75

Shapefile
CARVE: Daily Thaw State of Boreal and Arctic Alaska from AMSR-E and SSM/I, 2003-2014 1.1 ADEOS-II, DMSP AMSR-E, SSM/I 2003-01-01 to 2014-12-31

N: 74.399 S: 46.9946 E: -106.947 W: -179.999

netCDF-4
CryoSat-2 Level-1B Waveforms, Sea Ice Elevation, and Surface Roughness V001 1 CRYOSAT-2 SIRAL 2010-09-15 to Present

N: 90 S: 55 E: 180 W: -180

380 Meters x 1650 Meters netCDF-3
CryoSat-2 Level-4 Sea Ice Elevation, Freeboard, and Thickness V001 1 CRYOSAT-2, DMSP 5D-3/F17 SIRAL, SSMIS 2010-09-20 to Present

N: 90 S: 55 E: 180 W: -180

25 Kilometers x 25 Kilometers PNG, netCDF-3
Daily SnowModel Outputs Covering the ABoVE Core Domain, 3-km Resolution, 1980-2020 1 MODELS Computer 1980-09-01 to 2020-08-31

N: 75.8357 S: 49.8038 E: -84.3282 W: -176.915

netCDF-4 classic
ECCO Sea-Ice and Snow Concentration and Thickness - Daily Mean 0.5 Degree (Version 4 Release 4) V4r4 MODELS, MITgcm 1992-01-01 to 2018-01-01

N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180

0.5 Decimal Degrees x 0.5 Decimal Degrees netCDF-4
ECCO Sea-Ice and Snow Concentration and Thickness - Daily Mean llc90 Grid (Version 4 Release 4) V4r4 MODELS, MITgcm 1992-01-01 to 2018-01-01

N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180

1 Decimal Degrees x 1 Decimal Degrees netCDF-4
ECCO Sea-Ice and Snow Concentration and Thickness - Monthly Mean 0.5 Degree (Version 4 Release 4) V4r4 MODELS, MITgcm 1992-01-01 to 2018-01-01

N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180

0.5 Decimal Degrees x 0.5 Decimal Degrees netCDF-4
ECCO Sea-Ice and Snow Concentration and Thickness - Monthly Mean llc90 Grid (Version 4 Release 4) V4r4 MODELS, MITgcm 1992-01-01 to 2018-01-01

N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180

1 Decimal Degrees x 1 Decimal Degrees netCDF-4
ECCO Sea-Ice and Snow Concentration and Thickness - Snapshot llc90 Grid (Version 4 Release 4) V4r4 MODELS, MITgcm 1992-01-01 to 2018-01-01

N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180

1 Decimal Degrees x 1 Decimal Degrees netCDF-4
ECCO Sea-Ice and Snow Horizontal Volume Fluxes - Daily Mean llc90 Grid (Version 4 Release 4) V4r4 MODELS, MITgcm 1992-01-01 to 2018-01-01

N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180

1 Decimal Degrees x 1 Decimal Degrees netCDF-4
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