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: -58.52928489588871
geospatial_lat_min: -90.00000000000000
geospatial_lat_units: degrees_north
geospatial_lon_max: 180.0000000000000
geospatial_lon_min: -180.0000000000000
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: 2023-08-30T19:47:06.237584Z
fileName: ATL15_A2_0318_01km_003_01.nc
history: 2023-08-30T19:47:06.237584Z
identifier_product_format_version: 3.0
time_coverage_duration: 127871867.6481400
time_coverage_end: 2023-04-16T23:57:48.648140Z
time_coverage_start: 2019-03-29T00:00:01.000000Z
netcdfversion: 4.9.2
identifier_file_uuid: bd979ae2-af84-4e9d-8559-73529290b76a
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/ATL15.003
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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