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[edit] Glacier, Sea Ice and Ice Sheet data
- World Glacier Inventory (Information on glaciers for over 100,000 glaciers through out the world served by the National Snow and Ice Data Center)
The World Glacier Inventory contains information for glaciers throughout the world. Parameters within the inventory include: geographic location, area, length, orientation, elevation, and classification of morphological type and moraines. The inventory entries are based upon a single observation in time and can be viewed as a "snapshot" of the glacier at this time.
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- ICE-5G Model Data ( Global Grids of Ice Sheet Thickness and Paleotopography for 21,000 - present day)
The ICE-5G (VM2) model mathematically analyses glacio-isostatic adjustment processes and provides model data on global ice sheet coverage, ice thickness and paleotopography at 10 min spatial resolution for 21ka and 0ka, and at 1degree spatial resolution for intervals in between these snapshots. These are NETCDF files.
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- Sea Ice data ( Global grids of daily/2-daily sea ice concentration 1979-2008)
This data is actively generated by NSIDC/NASA from brightness temperature data derived from Nimbus-7 Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer (SMMR) and Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) -F8, -F11 and -F13 Special Sensor Microwave/Imager (SSM/I) radiances at a grid cell size of 25 x 25 km. The data are in the polar stereographic projection.
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