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ESA Antarctic Ice Sheet Climate Change Initiative (Antarctic_Ice_Sheet_cci): Gravimetric Mass Balance Basin products, v1.1

This dataset provides Gravimetric Mass Balance Basin data for the Antarctic Ice Sheet. It has been produced in the framework of the Antarctic Ice Sheets Climate Change Initiative (CCI) project, under the lead of TU Dresden.

The ice sheet mass balance, i.e. the change in ice mass over time, is determined using the US-German satellite gravimetry mission GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment). The Antarctic Ice Sheet CCI GMB products are based on the monthly GRACE solutions ITSG-Grace2016 by Technische Universität Graz, and comprises a time series of mass change grids covering the entire ice sheet (GMB Gridded product), along side mass change time series for different drainage basins (GMB Basin Product).

The dataset described here covers version 1.1 of the Basin product. Mass change time series are provided for a number of drainage basins. They describe the evolution of ice mass relative to a modelled reference value, defined to be the GRACE-derived mass as of 2009-01-01. Respective time series are also derived for the total areas of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, the Antarctic Peninsula and the Antarctic Ice Sheet as a whole.

If publishing results based on this dataset, please cite the following: Groh, A., & Horwath, M. (2016). The method of tailored sensitivity kernels for GRACE mass change estimates. Geophysical Research Abstracts, 18, EGU2016-12065.

Interactive data visualisation is available at: https://data1.geo.tu-dresden.de/ais_gmb/

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Date (Publication)
2016-11-24T00:00:00
Date (Creation)
2016-11-24T00:00:00
Identifier
https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/200ff3bf37d744a48b48cb2e3565cace
Identifier
Technische Universität Dresden, Institut für Planetare Geodäsie (TUDr) / 200ff3bf37d744a48b48cb2e3565cace
Author
  Unavailable - Horwath, Martin ( author )
Author
  Unavailable - Groh, Andreas ( author )
Custodian
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - custodian
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
Distributor
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - distributor
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
pointofContact
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - point_of_contact
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
pointofContact
  Unavailable - Horwath, Martin ( point_of_contact )
pointofContact
  Unavailable - Groh, Andreas ( point_of_contact )
Publisher
  Technische Universität Dresden, Institut für Planetare Geodäsie (TUDr) - publisher
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dataset Dataset
Keywords
  • ice sheets
  • gravimetric mass balance
  • gravimetric mass balance
  • ice sheets
  • Antarctic
  • Ice sheet
  • CCI
  • ESA
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Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.
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Under the following licence https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/licences/specific_licences/esacci_icesheets_antarctic_terms_and_conditions.pdf, appropriate use of these data may fall under any use. This message is intended as guidance, always read the full licence. When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.
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Begin date
2002-07-31T23:00:00
End date
2016-07-31T22:59:59
Unique resource identifier
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Distributor
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - Data Center Contact
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
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Groh, A., & Horwath, M. (2016). The method of tailored sensitivity kernels for GRACE mass change estimates. Geophysical Research Abstracts, 18, EGU2016-12065

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ESA CCI Antarctic Ice Sheet project website

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Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Statement
Data were produced by TU Dresden in the context of the ESA CCI Antarctic Ice Sheet project team and are archived on https://data1.geo.tu-dresden.de/ais_gmb/. They have been supplied to CEDA in the context of the ESA CCI Open Data Portal Project.
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200ff3bf37d744a48b48cb2e3565cace XML
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Character set
8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646 UTF8
Parent identifier
ESA Antarctic Ice Sheet Climate Change Initiative (Antarctic_Ice_Sheet_cci) Dataset Collection 81fb84c4b00640b7a3acb58346497977
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dataset Dataset
Date stamp
2025-11-15T03:15:07
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version
2.3
Point of contact
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
 
 

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