Table · dataset · 2025
Airborne Surface Profiling of Alaskan Glaciers, 1994 - 2001, Version 1
Listed in NASA Data Portal
This data set consists of glacier outline, laser altimetry profile, and surface elevation change data for 46 glaciers in Alaska and British Columbia, Canada, measured with an airborne laser altimetry system.
Description
Six glaciers in the Alaska Range of central Alaska, two glaciers in the Wrangell Mountains of southcentral Alaska, 11 glaciers in the Chugach Mountains of southcentral Alaska, five glaciers in the Chigmit Mountains of southcentral Alaska, 13 glaciers in the Kenai Mountains of southcentral Alaska (comprising the Harding Icefield), one glacier in the St.
Elias Mountains of southeast Alaska, one glacier in the Takhinsha Mountains of southeast Alaska, and seven glaciers in the Coast Mountains of southeast Alaska and British Columbia were profiled between 1994 and 2001. Surface elevation profiles are accurate to about 0.3 m. Long-term elevation changes can be estimated by comparison of these profiles with existing maps.
Links
Get the data
- Resource noaadata.apps.nsidc.org/NOAA/G01378 ↗
download · from data nasa gov
- Resource doi.org/10.7265/n5rf5rzj ↗
download · DOI / persistent id · from data nasa gov
- Original Metadata cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C2205521521-NSIDCV0.iso19115 ↗
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Where it is published
- NASA Data Portal dataset page data.nasa.gov/dataset/airborne-surface-profiling-of-alaskan-glaciers-1994-20… ↗
landing page · from data nasa gov
Catalogue records · 1
- CKAN API data.nasa.gov/api/3/action/package_show?id=1e145896-1d14-4698-a6f3-8c1b453bf… ↗
metadata API · from data nasa gov
Topics
- From keywords
- Astronomy & Astrophysics · Earth & Environmental Science · Ocean & Atmospheric Science · Physics
- Inferred from text
- Physical geography and environmental geoscience 71%
Provenance · 1 source records, 11 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
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| NASA Data Portal | 1e145896-1d14-4698-a6f3-8c1b453bfd4a | 10 d ago | JSON v2 |
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| concepts[field].anzsrc:group:3709 | enrichment · data nasa gov | taxonomy-embedding@1.0.0 | title+keywords+description (71%) |
| concepts[field].local:field:astronomy | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:earth-environmental | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:ocean-atmospheric | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:physics | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| created_date | source · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | /notes |
| license_text | source · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| publication_date | source · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
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| updated_date | source · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 |