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Mass balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet from 1992-2018
This dataset consists of the time series of mass change of the Greenland Ice Sheet and its contribution to global sea level between 1980 and 2018 derived from satellite measurements. The dataset presented here is a reconciled estimate of mass balance estimates from three independent satellite-based techniques - gravimetry, altimetry and input-output method - and its associated uncertainty. This dataset is part of the Ice Sheet Mass Balance Inter-comparison Exercise (IMBIE). The total mass change as well as the partition between surface and dynamics mass balance are provided in this dataset.
This work is an outcome of the Ice Sheet Mass Balance Inter-Comparison Exercise (IMBIE) supported by the ESA Climate Change Initiative and the NASA Cryosphere Program. Andrew Shepherd was additionally supported by a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award and the UK Natural Environment Research Council Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling (cpom30001).
***** PLEASE BE ADVISED TO USE UPDATED DATA *****
The expanded data set (see 'Related Data Set Metadata' link below) has an additional 24 months of measurements, and also includes data for Antarctica.
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- Date (Creation)
- 2020-02-03
- Date (Revision)
- 2020-02-03
- Date (Publication)
- 2020-02-03
- Date (released)
- 2020-02-03
- Edition
- 1.0
- Unique resource identifier
- https://doi.org/10.5285/8d5ff221-a470-4cc1-b7c4-cbdf383554fc
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- Unique resource identifier
- GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01298
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- https://data.bas.ac.uk/
- Other citation details
- Please cite this item as: Pattle, M., Moyano, G., Slater, T., Shepherd, A., Ivins, E., Rignot, E., Smith, B., van den Broeke, M., Velicogna, I., Whitehouse, P., Briggs, K., Joughin, I., Krinner, G., Nowicki, S., Payne, A., Scambos, T., Schlegel, N., Geruo, A., Agosta, C., ... Wuite, J. (2020). Mass balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet from 1992-2018 (Version 1.0) [Data set]. UK Polar Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, UK Research & Innovation. https://doi.org/10.5285/8d5ff221-a470-4cc1-b7c4-cbdf383554fc
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- Status
- completed Completed
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- Maintenance and update frequency
- asNeeded As needed
- Maintenance note
- completed Completed
- Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords
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- EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Glaciers/Ice Sheets > Glacier Mass Balance/Ice Sheet Mass Balance
- EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Glaciers/Ice Sheets > Ice Sheets
- EARTH SCIENCE > Hydrosphere > Glaciers/Ice Sheets > Glacier Mass Balance/Ice Sheet Mass Balance
- EARTH SCIENCE > Hydrosphere > Glaciers/Ice Sheets > Ice Sheets
- EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Coastal Processes > Sea Level Rise
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- Greenland
- ice sheet
- remote sensing
- sea level
- Place
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- Greenland Arctic
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- no limitations to public access
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- Other constraints
- Open Government Licence v3.0
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- This data is supplied under Open Government Licence v3.0
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- Metadata language
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
- Environment
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- Begin date
- 1980-01-01
- End date
- 2018-12-31
- Supplemental Information
- It is recommended that careful attention be paid to the contents of any data, and that the author be contacted with any questions regarding appropriate use. If you find any errors or omissions, please report them to polardatacentre@bas.ac.uk.
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- Statement
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Methodology:
The data used to produce this reconciled mass balance estimate were gathered in the framework of the IMBIE project. In total, 26 independent satellite estimates of mass change were used to produce this final dataset. All the individual datasets and models used as well as the methodology to aggregate these into a final estimate are described in Shepherd et al (2019).
Shepherd, A., Ivins, E., Rignot, E. et al. Mass balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet from 1992 to 2018. Nature (2019) doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1855-2
Data collection:
Each dataset contributed to the IMBIE project was processed independently by their contributors and the methods and errors on their dataset have been documented in an international peer-reviewed journal. A dedicated processor was developed in Python to compute the reconciled mass balance estimate and its uncertainty, and the core code is freely available at https://github.com/IMBIE.
Data quality:
The surface mass balance component is provided since 1980 and is derived from regional climate models. The total mass change and the dynamics component start in 1992, when satellites began to acquire data.
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- Hierarchy level name
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- Date stamp
- 2020-02-03
- Metadata standard name
- ISO 19115 Geographic Information - Metadata
- Metadata standard version
- ISO 19115:2003(E)
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