CEDA Metadata Catalogue
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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- Date (Publication)
- 2016-11-30T17:12:59
- Date (Creation)
- 2016-11-30T17:12:59
- Identifier
- Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / fba8969ef8224c4cac3cbaca149aef8f
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Unknown
- Update scope
- Dataset
- Keywords
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- ice sheets
- ice sheets
- Greenland
- Ice sheet
- CCI
- ESA
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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- orthoimagery
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Spatial representation type
- Grid
- Metadata language
- English
- Topic category
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- Imagery base maps earth cover
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- Begin date
- 1992-01-01T00:00:00
- End date
- 2015-12-31T23:59:59
- Unique resource identifier
- WGS 84
- Distribution format
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Data are provided as ESRI shapefile in latitude and longitude, WGS84 projection
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Data are provided as ESRI shapefile in latitude and longitude, WGS84 projection
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- OnLine resource
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CEDA Data Catalogue Page
Detail and access information for the resource
- OnLine resource
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DOWNLOAD
Download Data
- OnLine resource
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Product User Guide
No further details.
- OnLine resource
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The ESA Greenland Ice Sheet CCI Project
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- OnLine resource
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ESA Climate Change Initiative website
No further details.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 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.
- File identifier
- fba8969ef8224c4cac3cbaca149aef8f XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Parent identifier
- ESA Greenland Ice Sheet Climate Change Initiative (Greenland Ice Sheet CCI) Dataset Collection 394464f9c39445d3b6445d8e305841d7
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2024-02-28T00:12:20
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
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