Dataset Information

GDAL_AREA_OR_POINT: Area
Conventions: CF-1.6
short_name: ATL15
level: L3B
title: SET_BY_META
description: This data set (ATL15) contains seasonal, annual, and biennial gridded land ice elevation change.
contributor_name: Benjamin Smith (besmith@uw.edu), Tyler Sutterley (tsutterl@uw.edu), Suzanne Dickinson (sdickins@uw.edu), Benjamin Jelley (benjamin.p.jelley@nasa.gov), Denis Felikson (denis.felikson@nasa.gov), Thomas A Neumann (thomas.neumann@nasa.gov), Helen Fricker (hafricker@ucsd.edu), Alex Gardner (alex.s.gardner@jpl.nasa.gov), Laurence Padman (padman@esr.org), Thorsten Markus (thorsten.markus@nasa.gov), Nathan Kurtz (nathan.t.kurtz@nasa.gov), Suneel Bhardwaj (suneel.bhardwaj@nasa.gov), David W Hancock III (david.w.hancock@nasa.gov), Jeffrey Lee (jeffrey.e.lee@nasa.gov)
contributor_role: Investigator, Investigator, Algorithm Developer, Algorithm Developer, Investigator, Investigator, Investigator, Investigator, Investigator, Investigator, Investigator, Investigator, Investigator, Algorithm Developer
date_type: UTC
geospatial_lat_max: -60.88151633146890
geospatial_lat_min: -78.13589365082520
geospatial_lat_units: degrees_north
geospatial_lon_max: 171.7589788231710
geospatial_lon_min: -176.1439279139080
geospatial_lon_units: degrees_east
granule_type: ATL15
identifier_product_doi_authority: http://dx.doi.org
license: Data may not be reproduced or distributed without including the citation for this product included in this metadata. Data may not be distributed in an altered form without the written permission of the ICESat-2 Science Project Office at NASA/GSFC.
naming_authority: http://dx.doi.org
reference_frame: ITRF2014
shortName: ATL15_META
spatial_coverage_type: Horizontal
standard_name_vocabulary: CF-1.6
time_type: CCSDS UTC-A
vertical_datum: WGS84
date_created: 2022-10-13T17:18:16.416024Z
fileName: ATL15_AA_0314_01km_002_02.nc
history: 2022-10-13T17:18:16.416024Z
identifier_product_format_version: 2.0
time_coverage_duration: 94150869.62631059
time_coverage_end: 2022-03-23T03:19:26.843657Z
time_coverage_start: 2019-03-29T10:18:17.217346Z
netcdfversion: 4.8.1
identifier_file_uuid: cd7dc988-d5d0-4d42-8df8-ad73bfb2204f
publisher_name: NSIDC DAAC > NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center
publisher_email: nsidc@nsidc.org
publisher_url: http://nsidc.org/daac/
identifier_product_type: ATL15
identifier_product_doi: doi:10.5067/ATLAS/ATL15.002
institution: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
creator_name: GSFC I-SIPS > ICESat-2 Science Investigator-led Processing System
summary: The purpose of ATL15 is to provide an IceSat-2 gridded satellite summary of height changes of land-based ice.
keywords: EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > GLACIERS/ICE SHEETS > GLACIER ELEVATION/ICE SHEET ELEVATION > NONE > NONE > NONE
keywords_vocabulary: NASA/GCMD Science Keywords
citation: Cite these data in publications as follows: The data used in this study were produced by the ICESat-2 Science Project Office at NASA/GSFC. The data archive site is the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center.
processing_level: 3B
references: http://nsidc.org/data/icesat2/data.html
project: ICESat-2 > Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2
instrument: ATLAS > Advanced Topographic Laser Altimeter System
platform: ICESat-2 > Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2
source: Spacecraft


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