GLAS/ICESat L2 Global Planetary Boundary Layer and Elevated Aerosol Layer Heights (HDF5) V033

Description

GLAH08 Level-2 planetary boundary layer (PBL) and elevated aerosol layer heights data contains PBL heights, ground detection heights, and top and bottom heights of elevated aerosols from -1.5 km to 20.5 km (4 sec sampling rate) and from 20.5 km to 41 km (20 sec sampling rate). Each data granule has an associated browse product.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 Direct download via HTTPS protocol. https://n5eil01u.ecs.nsidc.org/GLAS/GLAH08.033
21 Data Access link for ITSD project https://nsidc.org/data/data-access-tool/GLAH08/versions/33/
21 Includes a user's guide, supplemental documents like ATBDs and academic papers, How Tos, FAQs, etc. https://doi.org/10.5067/ICESAT/GLAS/DATA201
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FICESAT%2FGLAS%2FDATA201
21 NASA's newest search and order tool for subsetting, reprojecting, and reformatting data. https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/granules?p=C189991868-NSIDC_ECS&m=-31.640625%211.125%211%211%210%210%2C2&q=GLAH08

Tags

  • altitude
  • aerosols
  • atmosphere
  • earth-science

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