New Dataset Request: Basal melting rates and height change

[kathasal]

Description of the data product

The data contains quarterly basal melting rates and height change of Antarctic ice shelves, 1992-2017. It is in netCDF-4 format.

Location of the data product

https://nsidc.org/data/nsidc-0792/versions/1

Data DOI

10.5067/SE3XH9RXQWAM

Metadata

all parameters, including: surface height change, basal melt rate, thickness, surface mass balance, firn air content

Checklist

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• This data product is stable (unlikely to change substantially or move)
• This data product is of use to the broader community
• This data product is documented: https://nsidc.org/sites/default/files/documents/user-guide/nsidc-0792-v001-userguide.pdf
• [] This data product is licensed under

[lawrenceabird]

This dataset is already available in the Cryosphere Data Pool.

It can be accessed using ccdtools as follows:

import ccdtools
catalog = ccdtools.catalog.DataCatalog()
catalog.load_dataset('measures_its_live_antarctic_quarterly_ice_shelf_height_change')