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ESA Antarctic Ice Sheet Climate Change Initiative (Antarctic_Ice_Sheet_cci): Antarctic Ice Sheet monthly Gravimetric Mass Balance gridded product, v3.0, 2002 - 2020

This dataset contains the Gravimetric Mass Balance (GMB) gridded product for the Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS), generated by TU Dresden as part of the ESA Antarctic Ice Sheet Climate Change Initiatve (Antarctic_Ice_Sheet_cci).

The Gravimetric Mass Balance (GMB) product for the Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS) is based on monthly snapshots of the Earth’s gravity field provided by the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) and its follow-on satellite mission (GRACE-FO). The product relies on monthly gravity field solutions (L2) of release 06 generated at the Center for Space Research (University of Texas at Austin) and spans the period from April 2002 through July 2020. The GMB product covers the full GRACE mission period (April 2002 - June 2017) and is extended by means of GRACE-FO data starting from June 2018, thus including 187 monthly solutions. The mass change estimation is based on the tailored sensitivity kernel approach developed at TU Dresden. (Groh & Horwath, 2021)

The GMB gridded product comprises time series of ice mass changes for cells of polar-stereographic grid with a sampling of 50x50 km² covering the entire AIS. A GMB basin product is also available as a separate dataset.

Groh, A. & Horwath, M. (2021). Antarctic Ice Mass Change Products from GRACE/GRACE-FO Using Tailored Sensitivity Kernels. Remote Sens., 13(9), 1736. doi:10.3390/rs13091736

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Date (Publication)
2021-06-17T14:09:06
Date (Creation)
2021-06-17T14:09:06
Identifier
https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/36dae49c76f845a18062fa96599be719
Identifier
NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis / 36dae49c76f845a18062fa96599be719
Identifier
doi / 10.5285/36dae49c76f845a18062fa96599be719
Author
  Unavailable - Groh, Andreas ( author )
Author
  Unavailable - Horwath, Martin ( author )
Custodian
  NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis - custodian
RAL Space , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus , Didcot , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
Distributor
  NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis - distributor
RAL Space , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus , Didcot , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
pointofContact
  NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis - point_of_contact
RAL Space , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus , Didcot , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
pointofContact
  CCI Open Data Portal - point_of_contact
Publisher
  NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis - publisher
RAL Space , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus , Didcot , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
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Keywords
  • GRACE
  • ESA CCI
  • Antarctica
  • Ice Sheet Mass Balance
  • GRACE
  • GRACE-FO
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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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
2002-04-18T00:00:00
End date
2020-07-16T23:59:59
Unique resource identifier
WGS 84
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  • Data are in NetCDF format ()

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  NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis - Data Center Contact
RAL Space , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus , Didcot , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
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ESA Antarctic Ice Sheet CCI key documents

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Groh, A. & Horwath, M. (2021). Antarctic Ice Mass Change Products from GRACE/GRACE-FO Using Tailored Sensitivity Kernels. Remote Sens., 13(9), 1736. doi:10.3390/rs13091736

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Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Statement
The data were generated by TU Dresden within the ESA Antarctic Ice Sheet CCI project and deposited at the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) for archiving and distribution via the CCI Open Data Portal.
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36dae49c76f845a18062fa96599be719 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
2025-11-15T03:21:18
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version
2.3
Point of contact
  NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis
RAL Space , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus , Didcot , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
 
 

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