Antarctic daily surface melt data estimated from SMMR, SSM/I, and SSMIS passive microwave observations, 1978-2016
This dataset contains gridded daily surface melt data for Antarctica estimated from passive microwave observations from the Scanning Microwave Multichannel Radiometer (SMMR), the Special Sensor Microwave/Imager (SSM/I), and the Special Sensor Microwave Imager Sounder (SSMIS) spaceborne sensors and covering the 1978-2017 period. Also provided are the latitudes and longitudes of the grid and computed melt days for each austral summer (Dec-Jan-Feb) during the period.
Funding was provided by NSF grants PLR 1341695 and PLR 1443443.
Simple
- Alternate title
- Polar Data Centre (PDC) record GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01074
- Date (Publication)
- 2020-01-29
- Identifier
- http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/dms/metadata.php?id= / GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01074
Custodian
British Antarctic Survey
High Cross, Madingley Road
,
Cambridge
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CB3 0ET
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UK
+44 (0)1223 221400
Originator
Polar Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, UK
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Nicolas, J.
High Cross, Madingley
,
Cambridge
,
CB3 0ET
,
UK
+44 (0)1223 221400
- Maintenance and update frequency
- unknown Unknown
- Keywords
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- NDGO0001
- NERC OAI Harvesting
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- NERC_DDC
- GCMD Parameter Valids
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- EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Glaciers/Ice Sheets > Glaciers
- EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Glaciers/Ice Sheets > Ice Sheets
- EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Snow/Ice > Snow Melt
- EARTH SCIENCE > Spectral/Engineering > Microwave > Microwave Imagery
- BAS Free-text keywords
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- Antarctica
- Melt
- Passive microwave
- SMMR
- SSMI
- Access constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
- Environment
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S
E
W
- Begin date
- 1978-10-25
- End date
- 2017-02-22
- Reference system identifier
- OGP / urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
- Distribution format
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- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
Domain consistency
- Measure identification
- INSPIRE / Conformity_001
Conformance result
- Date
- Explanation
- See the referenced specification
- Pass
- No
- Statement
- Uncertainties could not be estimated for this dataset.
- File identifier
- GB_NERC_BAS_PDC_01074 XML
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2020-01-29
- Metadata standard name
- NERC profile of ISO19115:2003
- Metadata standard version
- 1.0
Overviews
Spatial extent
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S
E
W
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Associated resources
Not available