Daily 0.5 km, 1 km and 5 km resolution Greenland, Arctic Canada and Iceland glaciated area albedo grids are available beginning April 2000 and (currently ending) September, 2017. The data are based on NASA MOD10A1 Collection 6 data with de-noising, gap filling, and bias correction after Box et al. (2017).
The grids are available through PROMICE at 5 km resolution. Data at the native 500 m resolution and 1 km resolution are available on request (jeb at geus dot dk).
Grid Properties
The data are distributed in NetCDF format and contain latitude, longitude, land mask. The map projection information:
Polar Stereographic
Map Reference Latitude: 90.0
Map Second Reference Latitude: 71.0
Map Reference Longitude: -39.0
Map Equatorial Radius: 6370.0
Grid Width: 301
Grid Height: 561
Grid Map Units per Cell: 5.0 ; km
Map Origin X: -800
Map Origin Y: -600
Works Cited
- Box, J.E., D. van As, K. Steffen, 2017. Greenland, Canadian and Icelandic land ice albedo grids (2000-2016), Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Bulletin, 38, 53-56. link