Sochor Lukas lukas.sochor@fau.de Seehaus Thorsten thorsten.seehaus@fau.de 0000-0001-5055-8959 Braun Matthias Holger matthias.h.braun@fau.de http://www.geographie.nat.uni-erlangen.de/personen/matthias-braun/ 0000-0001-5169-1567 2021 Increased Ice Thinning over Svalbard measured by ICESat/ICESat-2 Laser Altimetry dataset https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.933958 2021-07-22T14:26:02 We used spaceborne laser altimetry data from the ICESat and ICESat-2 missions to obtain ice elevation and mass change rates between 2003-2008 and 2019 over Svalbard. Elevation changes are derived at orbit crossover locations throughout the study area for glaciated and non-glaciated regions. We provide regional filtered crossover data for both surface types as point shapefiles in EPSG 4326 projection. Data is split into a north-western, north-eastern, and southern region in Spitsbergen in addition to measurements for the islands Barentsoya/Edgeoya and Kvitoya, the ice caps of Austfonna and Vestfonna, and seperate acquisitions over the Storisstraumen Glacier (Basin-3) in Austfonna (only glaciated). Data over icefree regions is not available for Kvitoya. Attribute field specifications are as follows: 'dhdt' is the annual elevation change rate in meters per year, 'dh_elv' is the total elevation change in meters, 'dt_year' is the timespan between ICESat and ICESat-2 acquisitions in decimal years, 'elv_IS2' is the interpolated ICESat-2 height value from the two nearest measurements to the crossing position in meters, 'elv_IS' is the interpolated ICESat height value from the two nearest measurements to the crossing position in meters, 'year_IS2' is the interpolated time from the two nearest measurements to the crossing location in decimal years, and 'year_IS' is the interpolated time in decimal years from the two nearest measurements to the crossing location in decimal years. 18.01 18.01 78.9 78.9 18.01 78.9 gridded surface Svalbard 78.9 18.01 Svalbard Multiple investigations MULT 4 CC-BY-4.0 Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ File content Content Sochor Lukas lukas.sochor@fau.de Content Binary Object Binary Sochor Lukas lukas.sochor@fau.de Binary CurationLevelB Basic curation https://wiki.pangaea.de/wiki/Curation_levels citable altimetry Barents Sea elevation change Geodesy Glacier Ice cap ICESat ICESat-2 Laser Mass Change Svalbard author22219 author57114 author82969 curlevel20 event2695892 geocode1600 geocode1601 license21 method10667 param146419 param99583 pi82969 term20387 term47452 term47880 term48451 term49910 term50108 term52880 term68866 term68867 term68868 term68869 term705 topotype7