ESA Greenland Ice Sheet Climate Change Initiative (Greenland_Ice_Sheet_cci): Greenland Calving Front Locations, v2.0

The data set provides calving front locations of 28 major outlet glaciers of the Greenland Ice Sheet using ERS and ENVISAT and Sentinel-1 SAR data. A selected number of the glaciers have been sampled seasonally, whilst the rest are sampled annually.

The Calving Front Location (CFL) of outlet glaciers from ice sheets is a basic parameter for ice dynamic modelling, for computing the mass fluxes at the calving gate, and for mapping glacier area change. From the ice velocity at the calving front and the time sequence of Calving Front Locations the iceberg calving rate can be computed which is of relevance for estimating the export of ice mass to the ocean.

The CFL product is a collection of ESRI shapefile in latitude and longitude, WGS84 projection.

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Metadata Language: English (en)

Dataset Reference Date (): 2016-11-30T17:12:59

Dataset Reference Date (): 2016-11-30T17:12:59

Identifier: http://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/fba8969ef8224c4cac3cbaca149aef8f

Identifier: Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / fba8969ef8224c4cac3cbaca149aef8f

ESA Greenland Ice Sheet CCI project team - author

Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - custodian

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom

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Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - distributor

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom

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Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom

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Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - publisher

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom

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Maintenance and update frequency: unknown

Update scope: dataset

Keywords

ice sheets
ice sheets
Greenland
Ice sheet
CCI
ESA

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ()

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Other constraints: Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.

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Other constraints: Use of these data is covered by the following licence: http://licences.ceda.ac.uk/image/data_access_condition/esacci_icesheets_greenland_terms_and_conditions.pdf . When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.

Spatial representation type: grid

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Imagery base maps earth cover

Begin date: 1992-01-01T00:00:00

End date: 2015-12-31T23:59:59

Code: WGS 84

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Data are provided as ESRI shapefile in latitude and longitude, WGS84 projection ()

Resource Locator: CEDA Data Catalogue Page
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Resource Locator: The ESA Greenland Ice Sheet CCI Project
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Resource Locator: ESA Climate Change Initiative website
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Resource Locator: CEDA Data Catalogue Page
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Dataset Reference Date (): 2010-12-08

Statement: Data were processed by the ESA CCI Greenland Ice Sheet project team and supplied to CEDA in the context of the ESA CCI Open Data Portal Project.

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File identifier: fba8969ef8224c4cac3cbaca149aef8f XML

Metadata Language: English (en)

Character set: 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646

Parent identifier: ESA Greenland Ice Sheet Climate Change Initiative (Greenland Ice Sheet CCI) Dataset Collection 394464f9c39445d3b6445d8e305841d7

Resource type: dataset

Metadata Date: 2022-05-23T23:15:40

Metadata standard name: UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version: 2.3

Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom

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