Dataset Information

HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: H5_GLOBAL
short_name: ATL06
level: L3A
description: This data set (ATL06) provides geolocated, land-ice surface heights (above the WGS 84 ellipsoid, ITRF2014 reference frame), plus ancillary parameters that can be used to interpret and assess the quality of the height estimates. The data were acquired by th
Conventions: CF-1.6
contributor_name: Thomas A Neumann (thomas.neumann@nasa.gov), Thorsten Markus (thorsten.markus@nasa.gov), Suneel Bhardwaj (suneel.bhardwaj@nasa.gov) David W Hancock III (david.w.hancock@nasa.gov)
contributor_role: Instrument Engineer, Investigator, Principle Investigator, Data Producer, Data Producer
data_rate: Data within this group pertain to the granule in its entirety.
date_type: UTC
featureType: trajectory
geospatial_lat_units: degrees_north
geospatial_lon_units: degrees_east
granule_type: ATL06
identifier_product_doi_authority: http://dx.doi.org
license: Data may not be reproduced or distributed without including the citation for this product included in this metadata. Data may not be distributed in an altered form without the written permission of the ICESat-2 Science Project Office at NASA/GSFC.
naming_authority: http://dx.doi.org
spatial_coverage_type: Horizontal
standard_name_vocabulary: CF-1.6
time_type: CCSDS UTC-A
date_created: 2025-12-19T22:01:54.000000Z
hdfversion: HDF5 1.14.4
history: 2025-12-19T22:01:54.000000Z;fe870c8f-7533-3a33-8c17-d667ecdd83b6;Created by PGE atlas_l3a_is Version 5.1
identifier_file_uuid: fe870c8f-7533-3a33-8c17-d667ecdd83b6
identifier_product_format_version: 5.1
time_coverage_duration: 422.
time_coverage_end: 2025-09-13T14:30:26.000000Z
time_coverage_start: 2025-09-13T14:23:24.000000Z
geospatial_lat_min: 25.474481959584711
geospatial_lon_min: -171.42912310348692
geospatial_lat_max: 25.51268125829365
geospatial_lon_max: -171.42503689992421
publisher_name: NSIDC DAAC > NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center
publisher_email: nsidc@nsidc.org
publisher_url: http://nsidc.org/daac/
title: ATLAS/ICESat-2 L3A Land Ice Height
identifier_product_type: ATL06
identifier_product_doi: doi:10.5067/ATLAS/ATL06.007
institution: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
creator_name: GSFC I-SIPS > ICESat-2 Science Investigator-led Processing System
summary: ATL06 provides estimates of the ice-sheet mean surface height relative to the WGS-84 ellipsoid, and ancillary parameters needed to interpret and assess the quality of these height estimates.
keywords: EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > GLACIERS/ICE SHEETS > GLACIER ELEVATION/ICE SHEET ELEVATION > NONE > NONE > NONE
keywords_vocabulary: NASA/GCMD Science Keywords
citation: Cite these data in publications as follows: The data used in this study were produced by the ICESat-2 Science Project Office at NASA/GSFC. The data archive site is the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center.
processing_level: 3A
references: http://nsidc.org/data/icesat2/data.html
project: ICESat-2 > Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2
instrument: ATLAS > Advanced Topographic Laser Altimeter System
platform: ICESat-2 > Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2
source: Spacecraft


Variables in this Dataset

/ancillary_data/release: Array of Strings [ = 0..0]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /ancillary_data/release
long_name: Release Number
units: 1
source: Operations
contentType: auxiliaryInformation
description: Release number of the granule. The release number is incremented when the software or ancillary data used to create the granule has been changed.
/ancillary_data/end_geoseg: Array of 32 bit Integers [ = 0..0]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /ancillary_data/end_geoseg
long_name: Ending Geolocation Segment
units: 1
source: Derived
contentType: auxiliaryInformation
description: The ending geolocation segment number associated with the data contained within this granule. ICESat granule geographic regions are further refined by geolocation segments. During the geolocation process, a geolocation segment is created approximately every 20m from the start of the orbit to the end. The geolocation segments help align the ATLAS strong a weak beams and provide a common segment length for the L2 and higher products. The geolocation segment indices differ slightly from orbit-to-orbit because of the irregular shape of the Earth. The geolocation segment indices on ATL01 and ATL02 are only approximate because beams have not been aligned at the time of their creation.
/ancillary_data/version: Array of Strings [ = 0..0]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /ancillary_data/version
long_name: Version
units: 1
source: Operations
contentType: auxiliaryInformation
description: Version number of this granule within the release. It is a sequential number corresponding to the number of times the granule has been reprocessed for the current release.
/ancillary_data/end_region: Array of 32 bit Integers [ = 0..0]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /ancillary_data/end_region
long_name: Ending Region
units: 1
source: Derived
contentType: auxiliaryInformation
description: The ending product-specific region number associated with the data contained within this granule. ICESat-2 data products are separated by geographic regions. The data contained within a specific region are the same for ATL01 and ATL02. ATL03 regions differ slightly because of different geolocation segment locations caused by the irregular shape of the Earth. The region indices for other products are completely independent.
/ancillary_data/atlas_sdp_gps_epoch: Array of 64 bit Reals [ = 0..0]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /ancillary_data/atlas_sdp_gps_epoch
long_name: ATLAS Epoch Offset
units: seconds since 1980-01-06T00:00:00.000000Z
source: Operations
contentType: auxiliaryInformation
description: Number of GPS seconds between the GPS epoch (1980-01-06T00:00:00.000000Z UTC) and the ATLAS Standard Data Product (SDP) epoch (2018-01-01:T00.00.00.000000 UTC). Add this value to delta time parameters to compute full gps_seconds (relative to the GPS epoch) for each data point.
/ancillary_data/end_rgt: Array of 32 bit Integers [ = 0..0]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /ancillary_data/end_rgt
long_name: Ending Reference Groundtrack
units: 1
source: Derived
valid_min: 1
valid_max: 1387
contentType: auxiliaryInformation
description: The ending reference groundtrack (RGT) number associated with the data contained within this granule. There are 1387 reference groundtrack in the ICESat-2 repeat orbit. The reference groundtrack increments each time the spacecraft completes a full orbit of the Earth and resets to 1 each time the spacecraft completes a full cycle.
/ancillary_data/end_delta_time: Array of 64 bit Reals [ = 0..0]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /ancillary_data/end_delta_time
long_name: ATLAS End Time (Actual)
standard_name: time
units: seconds since 2018-01-01
source: Derived
contentType: auxiliaryInformation
description: Number of GPS seconds since the ATLAS SDP epoch at the last data point in the file. The ATLAS Standard Data Products (SDP) epoch offset is defined within /ancillary_data/atlas_sdp_gps_epoch as the number of GPS seconds between the GPS epoch (1980-01-06T00:00:00.000000Z UTC) and the ATLAS SDP epoch. By adding the offset contained within atlas_sdp_gps_epoch to delta time parameters, the time in gps_seconds relative to the GPS epoch can be computed.
/ancillary_data/end_orbit: Array of 32 bit Integers [ = 0..0]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /ancillary_data/end_orbit
long_name: Ending Orbit Number
units: 1
source: Derived
contentType: auxiliaryInformation
description: The ending orbit number associated with the data contained within this granule. The orbit number increments each time the spacecraft completes a full orbit of the Earth.
/ancillary_data/start_cycle: Array of 32 bit Integers [ = 0..0]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /ancillary_data/start_cycle
long_name: Starting Cycle
units: 1
source: Derived
valid_min: 0
valid_max: 99
contentType: auxiliaryInformation
description: The starting cycle number associated with the data contained within this granule. The cycle number is the counter of the number of 91-day repeat cycles completed by the mission.
/ancillary_data/data_end_utc: Array of Strings [ = 0..0]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /ancillary_data/data_end_utc
long_name: End UTC Time of Granule (CCSDS-A, Actual)
units: 1
source: Derived
contentType: auxiliaryInformation
description: UTC (in CCSDS-A format) of the last data point within the granule.
/ancillary_data/control: Array of Strings [ = 0..0]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /ancillary_data/control
long_name: Control File
units: 1
source: Operations
contentType: auxiliaryInformation
description: PGE-specific control file used to generate this granule. To re-use, replace breaks (BR) with linefeeds.
/ancillary_data/start_gpssow: Array of 64 bit Reals [ = 0..0]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /ancillary_data/start_gpssow
long_name: Start GPS SOW of Granule (Actual)
units: seconds
source: Derived
contentType: auxiliaryInformation
description: GPS seconds-of-week of the first data point in the granule.
/ancillary_data/granule_end_utc: Array of Strings [ = 0..0]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /ancillary_data/granule_end_utc
long_name: End UTC Time of Granule (CCSDS-A, Requested)
units: 1
source: Derived
contentType: auxiliaryInformation
description: Requested end time (in UTC CCSDS-A) of this granule.
/ancillary_data/end_cycle: Array of 32 bit Integers [ = 0..0]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /ancillary_data/end_cycle
long_name: Ending Cycle
units: 1
source: Derived
valid_min: 0
valid_max: 99
contentType: auxiliaryInformation
description: The ending cycle number associated with the data contained within this granule. The cycle number is the counter of the number of 91-day repeat cycles completed by the mission.
/ancillary_data/granule_start_utc: Array of Strings [ = 0..0]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /ancillary_data/granule_start_utc
long_name: Start UTC Time of Granule (CCSDS-A, Requested)
units: 1
source: Derived
contentType: auxiliaryInformation
description: Requested start time (in UTC CCSDS-A) of this granule.
/ancillary_data/start_delta_time: Array of 64 bit Reals [ = 0..0]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /ancillary_data/start_delta_time
long_name: ATLAS Start Time (Actual)
standard_name: time
units: seconds since 2018-01-01
source: Derived
contentType: auxiliaryInformation
description: Number of GPS seconds since the ATLAS SDP epoch at the first data point in the file. The ATLAS Standard Data Products (SDP) epoch offset is defined within /ancillary_data/atlas_sdp_gps_epoch as the number of GPS seconds between the GPS epoch (1980-01-06T00:00:00.000000Z UTC) and the ATLAS SDP epoch. By adding the offset contained within atlas_sdp_gps_epoch to delta time parameters, the time in gps_seconds relative to the GPS epoch can be computed.
/ancillary_data/start_geoseg: Array of 32 bit Integers [ = 0..0]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /ancillary_data/start_geoseg
long_name: Starting Geolocation Segment
units: 1
source: Derived
contentType: auxiliaryInformation
description: The starting geolocation segment number associated with the data contained within this granule. ICESat granule geographic regions are further refined by geolocation segments. During the geolocation process, a geolocation segment is created approximately every 20m from the start of the orbit to the end. The geolocation segments help align the ATLAS strong a weak beams and provide a common segment length for the L2 and higher products. The geolocation segment indices differ slightly from orbit-to-orbit because of the irregular shape of the Earth. The geolocation segment indices on ATL01 and ATL02 are only approximate because beams have not been aligned at the time of their creation.
/ancillary_data/start_orbit: Array of 32 bit Integers [ = 0..0]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /ancillary_data/start_orbit
long_name: Starting Orbit Number
units: 1
source: Derived
contentType: auxiliaryInformation
description: The starting orbit number associated with the data contained within this granule. The orbit number increments each time the spacecraft completes a full orbit of the Earth.
/ancillary_data/data_start_utc: Array of Strings [ = 0..0]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /ancillary_data/data_start_utc
long_name: Start UTC Time of Granule (CCSDS-A, Actual)
units: 1
source: Derived
contentType: auxiliaryInformation
description: UTC (in CCSDS-A format) of the first data point within the granule.
/ancillary_data/end_gpsweek: Array of 32 bit Integers [ = 0..0]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /ancillary_data/end_gpsweek
long_name: Ending GPSWeek of Granule (Actual)
contentType: auxiliaryInformation
description: GPS week number of the last data point in the granule.
units: weeks from 1980-01-06
source: Derived
/ancillary_data/start_rgt: Array of 32 bit Integers [ = 0..0]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /ancillary_data/start_rgt
long_name: Starting Reference Groundtrack
units: 1
source: Derived
valid_min: 1
valid_max: 1387
contentType: auxiliaryInformation
description: The starting reference groundtrack (RGT) number associated with the data contained within this granule. There are 1387 reference groundtrack in the ICESat-2 repeat orbit. The reference groundtrack increments each time the spacecraft completes a full orbit of the Earth and resets to 1 each time the spacecraft completes a full cycle.
/ancillary_data/end_gpssow: Array of 64 bit Reals [ = 0..0]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /ancillary_data/end_gpssow
long_name: Ending GPS SOW of Granule (Actual)
units: seconds
source: Derived
contentType: auxiliaryInformation
description: GPS seconds-of-week of the last data point in the granule.
/ancillary_data/land_ice/rbin_width: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..0]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /ancillary_data/land_ice/rbin_width
long_name: Bin Size
units: meters
source: Operations
contentType: auxiliaryInformation
description: Residual histogram bin size
/ancillary_data/land_ice/sigma_beam: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..0]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /ancillary_data/land_ice/sigma_beam
long_name: Sigma of Gaussian Footprint
units: meters
source: Operations
contentType: auxiliaryInformation
description: Spatial sigma of the Gaussian footprint (m)
/ancillary_data/land_ice/qs_lim_hsigma: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..0]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /ancillary_data/land_ice/qs_lim_hsigma
long_name: Height Sigma QS Limit
units: 1
source: Operations
contentType: auxiliaryInformation
description: atl06_quality_summary limit for testing Height Sigma.
/ancillary_data/land_ice/fit_maxiter: Array of 32 bit Integers [ = 0..0]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /ancillary_data/land_ice/fit_maxiter
long_name: Maximum Iterations of Fit
units: 1
source: Operations
contentType: auxiliaryInformation
description: Maximum number of iterations in at_seg_fit
/ancillary_data/land_ice/txp_maxiter: Array of 32 bit Integers [ = 0..0]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /ancillary_data/land_ice/txp_maxiter
long_name: Maximum Iterations
units: counts
source: Operations
contentType: auxiliaryInformation
description: Maximum number of iterations in tx_shape_corr
/ancillary_data/land_ice/qs_lim_hrs: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..0]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /ancillary_data/land_ice/qs_lim_hrs
long_name: Height Robust Spread QS Limit
units: meters
source: Operations
contentType: auxiliaryInformation
description: atl06_quality_summary limit for testing Height Robust Spread.
/ancillary_data/land_ice/qs_lim_bsc: Array of 32 bit Integers [ = 0..0]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /ancillary_data/land_ice/qs_lim_bsc
long_name: Blowing Snow Confidence QS Limit
units: 1
source: Operations
contentType: auxiliaryInformation
description: atl06_quality_summary limit for testing Blowing Snow Confidence.
/ancillary_data/land_ice/qs_lim_snr: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..0]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /ancillary_data/land_ice/qs_lim_snr
long_name: SNR Significance QS Limit
units: 1
source: Operations
contentType: auxiliaryInformation
description: atl06_quality_summary limit for testing SNR Significance.
/ancillary_data/land_ice/n_hist: Array of 32 bit Integers [ = 0..0]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /ancillary_data/land_ice/n_hist
long_name: Number of Histogram Bins
units: 1
source: Operations
contentType: auxiliaryInformation
description: Number of bins in a histogram
/ancillary_data/land_ice/min_gain_th: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..0]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /ancillary_data/land_ice/min_gain_th
long_name: Minimum Gain Threshold
units: 1
source: Operations
contentType: auxiliaryInformation
description: Minimum estimated gain threshold (3.1.6)
/ancillary_data/land_ice/qs_lim_sss: Array of 32 bit Integers [ = 0..0]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /ancillary_data/land_ice/qs_lim_sss
long_name: Signal Selection Source QS Limit
units: 1
source: Operations
contentType: auxiliaryInformation
description: atl06_quality_summary limit for testing Signal Selection Source.
/ancillary_data/land_ice/n_sigmas: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..0]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /ancillary_data/land_ice/n_sigmas
long_name: Number of Sigmas
units: 1
source: Operations
contentType: auxiliaryInformation
description: Multiplied by sigma_expected to get h_win
/ancillary_data/land_ice/dt_hist: Array of 64 bit Reals [ = 0..0]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /ancillary_data/land_ice/dt_hist
long_name: Histogram Bin Size
units: seconds
source: Operations
contentType: auxiliaryInformation
description: Bin size for histograms (sec)
/ancillary_data/land_ice/sigma_tx: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..5]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /ancillary_data/land_ice/sigma_tx
long_name: Sigma Tx
units: seconds
source: Operations
contentType: auxiliaryInformation
description: RDE of the Tx pulse in ATLAS Spot order (1-6). Calculated as half the difference between the 84th and 16th percentiles of the signal bins.
/ancillary_data/land_ice/min_signal_conf: Array of 32 bit Integers [ = 0..0]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /ancillary_data/land_ice/min_signal_conf
long_name: Minimum Signal Confidence
units: 1
source: Operations
valid_min: 0
valid_max: 4
contentType: auxiliaryInformation
description: Minimum signal confidence level for a photon to be considered valid.
/ancillary_data/land_ice/t_dead: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..5]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /ancillary_data/land_ice/t_dead
long_name: Dead Time
units: seconds
source: Operations
contentType: auxiliaryInformation
description: Dead time, in ATLAS spot order (1-6). Calculated as the average of the CAL42 per-channel dead times, using the appropriate channels for strong and weak spots.
/ancillary_data/land_ice/qs_lim_msw: Array of 32 bit Integers [ = 0..0]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /ancillary_data/land_ice/qs_lim_msw
long_name: Multiple Scattering Warning QS Limit
units: 1
source: Operations
contentType: auxiliaryInformation
description: atl06_quality_summary limit for testing Multiple Scattering Warning.
/ancillary_data/land_ice/min_n_sel: Array of 32 bit Integers [ = 0..0]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /ancillary_data/land_ice/min_n_sel
long_name: Mininum Number of Photons
units: 1
source: Operations
contentType: auxiliaryInformation
description: Minimum number of selected PEs in pe_select
/ancillary_data/land_ice/max_res_ids: Array of 32 bit Integers [ = 0..0]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /ancillary_data/land_ice/max_res_ids
long_name: Max Segments
units: 1
source: Operations
contentType: auxiliaryInformation
description: Maximum number of segment ids in each residual_histogram
/ancillary_data/land_ice/proc_interval: Array of 32 bit Integers [ = 0..0]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /ancillary_data/land_ice/proc_interval
long_name: Processing Interval
units: seconds
source: Operations
contentType: auxiliaryInformation
description: Processing interval in number of geolocation segments..
/ancillary_data/land_ice/fpb_maxiter: Array of 32 bit Integers [ = 0..0]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /ancillary_data/land_ice/fpb_maxiter
long_name: Maximum Iterations for FPB
units: 1
source: Operations
contentType: auxiliaryInformation
description: Maximum number of iterations in fpb_corr
/ancillary_data/land_ice/min_n_pe: Array of 32 bit Integers [ = 0..0]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /ancillary_data/land_ice/min_n_pe
long_name: Minimum Photons
units: 1
source: Operations
contentType: auxiliaryInformation
description: Minimum # PEs for fit
/ancillary_data/land_ice/min_dist: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..0]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /ancillary_data/land_ice/min_dist
long_name: Minimum Distance
units: meters
source: Operations
contentType: auxiliaryInformation
description: Min dist between first and last selected PEs
/ancillary_data/land_ice/nhist_bins: Array of 32 bit Integers [ = 0..0]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /ancillary_data/land_ice/nhist_bins
long_name: Number of Bins
units: 1
source: Operations
contentType: auxiliaryInformation
description: Number of bins in residual histogram
/ancillary_data/qa_at_interval: Array of 64 bit Reals [ = 0..0]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /ancillary_data/qa_at_interval
long_name: QA Along-Track Interval
units: seconds/cell
source: control
contentType: auxiliaryInformation
description: Statistics time interval for along-track QA data.
/ancillary_data/start_region: Array of 32 bit Integers [ = 0..0]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /ancillary_data/start_region
long_name: Starting Region
units: 1
source: Derived
contentType: auxiliaryInformation
description: The starting product-specific region number associated with the data contained within this granule. ICESat-2 data products are separated by geographic regions. The data contained within a specific region are the same for ATL01 and ATL02. ATL03 regions differ slightly because of different geolocation segment locations caused by the irregular shape of the Earth. The region indices for other products are completely independent.
/ancillary_data/start_gpsweek: Array of 32 bit Integers [ = 0..0]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /ancillary_data/start_gpsweek
long_name: Start GPSWeek of Granule (Actual)
units: weeks from 1980-01-06
source: Derived
contentType: auxiliaryInformation
description: GPS week number of the first data point in the granule.
/quality_assessment/qa_granule_fail_reason: Array of 32 bit Integers [ = 0..0]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /quality_assessment/qa_granule_fail_reason
long_name: Granule Failure Reason
units: 1
source: Operations
valid_min: 0
valid_max: 5
contentType: qualityInformation
description: Flag indicating granule failure reason. 0=no failure; 1=processing error; 2=Insufficient output data was generated; 3=TBD Failure; 4=TBD_Failure; 5=other failure.
flag_meanings: no_failure PROCESS_ERROR INSUFFICIENT_OUTPUT failure_3 failure_4 OTHER_FAILURE
flag_values: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
/quality_assessment/qa_granule_pass_fail: Array of 32 bit Integers [ = 0..0]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /quality_assessment/qa_granule_pass_fail
long_name: Granule Pass Flag
units: 1
source: Operations
valid_min: 0
valid_max: 1
contentType: qualityInformation
description: Flag indicating granule quality. 0=granule passes automatic QA. 1=granule fails automatic QA.
flag_meanings: PASS FAIL
flag_values: 0, 1
/quality_assessment/gt1r/signal_selection_source_fraction_0: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..-1]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /quality_assessment/gt1r/signal_selection_source_fraction_0
long_name: Signal Selection Source Fraction 0
units: 1
source: ATL06 ATBD - Q/A Statistics
valid_min: 0.
valid_max: 1.
contentType: qualityInformation
description: The fraction of 20m segments with signal_selection_source equal to zero.
coordinates: delta_time lat_mean lon_mean
/quality_assessment/gt1r/lat_mean: Array of 64 bit Reals [ = 0..-1]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /quality_assessment/gt1r/lat_mean
long_name: Latitude Mean
standard_name: latitude
units: degrees_north
source: Section 7.2, Q/A Statistics
valid_min: -90.
valid_max: 90.
contentType: physicalMeasurement
description: Mean latitude of the 10km segment.
coordinates: delta_time lon_mean
/quality_assessment/gt1r/signal_selection_source_fraction_1: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..-1]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /quality_assessment/gt1r/signal_selection_source_fraction_1
long_name: Signal Selection Source Fraction 1
units: 1
source: ATL06 ATBD - Q/A Statistics
valid_min: 0.
valid_max: 1.
contentType: qualityInformation
description: The fraction of 20m segments with signal_selection_source equal to 1.
coordinates: delta_time lat_mean lon_mean
/quality_assessment/gt1r/lon_mean: Array of 64 bit Reals [ = 0..-1]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /quality_assessment/gt1r/lon_mean
long_name: Longitude Mean
standard_name: longitude
units: degrees_east
source: Section 7.2, Q/A Statistics
valid_min: -180.
valid_max: 180.
contentType: physicalMeasurement
description: Mean longitude of the 10km segment.
coordinates: delta_time lat_mean
/quality_assessment/gt1r/signal_selection_source_fraction_2: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..-1]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /quality_assessment/gt1r/signal_selection_source_fraction_2
long_name: Signal Selection Source Fraction 2
units: 1
source: ATL06 ATBD - Q/A Statistics
valid_min: 0.
valid_max: 1.
contentType: qualityInformation
description: The fraction of 20m segments with signal_selection_source equal to 2.
coordinates: delta_time lat_mean lon_mean
/quality_assessment/gt1r/delta_time: Array of 64 bit Reals [ = 0..-1]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /quality_assessment/gt1r/delta_time
CLASS: DIMENSION_SCALE
NAME: delta_time
long_name: Elapsed GPS seconds
standard_name: time
units: seconds since 2018-01-01
source: Section 7.2, Q/A Statistics
contentType: referenceInformation
description: Mean number of GPS seconds since the ATLAS SDP epoch for the 10km segment. The ATLAS Standard Data Products (SDP) epoch offset is defined within /ancillary_data/atlas_sdp_gps_epoch as the number of GPS seconds between the GPS epoch (1980-01-06T00:00:00.000000Z UTC) and the ATLAS SDP epoch. By adding the offset contained within atlas_sdp_gps_epoch to delta time parameters, the time in gps_seconds relative to the GPS epoch can be computed.
coordinates: lat_mean lon_mean
/quality_assessment/gt1r/signal_selection_source_fraction_3: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..-1]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /quality_assessment/gt1r/signal_selection_source_fraction_3
long_name: Signal Selection Source Fraction 3
units: 1
source: ATL06 ATBD - Q/A Statistics
valid_min: 0.
valid_max: 1.
contentType: qualityInformation
description: The fraction of 20m segments with signal_selection_source equal to 3.
coordinates: delta_time lat_mean lon_mean
/quality_assessment/gt2r/signal_selection_source_fraction_0: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..-1]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /quality_assessment/gt2r/signal_selection_source_fraction_0
long_name: Signal Selection Source Fraction 0
units: 1
source: ATL06 ATBD - Q/A Statistics
valid_min: 0.
valid_max: 1.
contentType: qualityInformation
description: The fraction of 20m segments with signal_selection_source equal to zero.
coordinates: delta_time lat_mean lon_mean
/quality_assessment/gt2r/delta_time: Array of 64 bit Reals [ = 0..-1]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /quality_assessment/gt2r/delta_time
CLASS: DIMENSION_SCALE
NAME: delta_time
long_name: Elapsed GPS seconds
standard_name: time
units: seconds since 2018-01-01
source: Section 7.2, Q/A Statistics
contentType: referenceInformation
description: Mean number of GPS seconds since the ATLAS SDP epoch for the 10km segment. The ATLAS Standard Data Products (SDP) epoch offset is defined within /ancillary_data/atlas_sdp_gps_epoch as the number of GPS seconds between the GPS epoch (1980-01-06T00:00:00.000000Z UTC) and the ATLAS SDP epoch. By adding the offset contained within atlas_sdp_gps_epoch to delta time parameters, the time in gps_seconds relative to the GPS epoch can be computed.
coordinates: lat_mean lon_mean
/quality_assessment/gt2r/signal_selection_source_fraction_1: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..-1]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /quality_assessment/gt2r/signal_selection_source_fraction_1
long_name: Signal Selection Source Fraction 1
units: 1
source: ATL06 ATBD - Q/A Statistics
valid_min: 0.
valid_max: 1.
contentType: qualityInformation
description: The fraction of 20m segments with signal_selection_source equal to 1.
coordinates: delta_time lat_mean lon_mean
/quality_assessment/gt2r/lon_mean: Array of 64 bit Reals [ = 0..-1]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /quality_assessment/gt2r/lon_mean
long_name: Longitude Mean
standard_name: longitude
units: degrees_east
source: Section 7.2, Q/A Statistics
valid_min: -180.
valid_max: 180.
contentType: physicalMeasurement
description: Mean longitude of the 10km segment.
coordinates: delta_time lat_mean
/quality_assessment/gt2r/signal_selection_source_fraction_2: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..-1]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /quality_assessment/gt2r/signal_selection_source_fraction_2
long_name: Signal Selection Source Fraction 2
units: 1
source: ATL06 ATBD - Q/A Statistics
valid_min: 0.
valid_max: 1.
contentType: qualityInformation
description: The fraction of 20m segments with signal_selection_source equal to 2.
coordinates: delta_time lat_mean lon_mean
/quality_assessment/gt2r/lat_mean: Array of 64 bit Reals [ = 0..-1]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /quality_assessment/gt2r/lat_mean
long_name: Latitude Mean
standard_name: latitude
units: degrees_north
source: Section 7.2, Q/A Statistics
valid_min: -90.
valid_max: 90.
contentType: physicalMeasurement
description: Mean latitude of the 10km segment.
coordinates: delta_time lon_mean
/quality_assessment/gt2r/signal_selection_source_fraction_3: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..-1]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /quality_assessment/gt2r/signal_selection_source_fraction_3
long_name: Signal Selection Source Fraction 3
units: 1
source: ATL06 ATBD - Q/A Statistics
valid_min: 0.
valid_max: 1.
contentType: qualityInformation
description: The fraction of 20m segments with signal_selection_source equal to 3.
coordinates: delta_time lat_mean lon_mean
/quality_assessment/gt1l/signal_selection_source_fraction_0: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..-1]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /quality_assessment/gt1l/signal_selection_source_fraction_0
long_name: Signal Selection Source Fraction 0
units: 1
source: ATL06 ATBD - Q/A Statistics
valid_min: 0.
valid_max: 1.
contentType: qualityInformation
description: The fraction of 20m segments with signal_selection_source equal to zero.
coordinates: delta_time lat_mean lon_mean
/quality_assessment/gt1l/lat_mean: Array of 64 bit Reals [ = 0..-1]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /quality_assessment/gt1l/lat_mean
long_name: Latitude Mean
standard_name: latitude
units: degrees_north
source: Section 7.2, Q/A Statistics
valid_min: -90.
valid_max: 90.
contentType: physicalMeasurement
description: Mean latitude of the 10km segment.
coordinates: delta_time lon_mean
/quality_assessment/gt1l/signal_selection_source_fraction_1: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..-1]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /quality_assessment/gt1l/signal_selection_source_fraction_1
long_name: Signal Selection Source Fraction 1
units: 1
source: ATL06 ATBD - Q/A Statistics
valid_min: 0.
valid_max: 1.
contentType: qualityInformation
description: The fraction of 20m segments with signal_selection_source equal to 1.
coordinates: delta_time lat_mean lon_mean
/quality_assessment/gt1l/lon_mean: Array of 64 bit Reals [ = 0..-1]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /quality_assessment/gt1l/lon_mean
long_name: Longitude Mean
standard_name: longitude
units: degrees_east
source: Section 7.2, Q/A Statistics
valid_min: -180.
valid_max: 180.
contentType: physicalMeasurement
description: Mean longitude of the 10km segment.
coordinates: delta_time lat_mean
/quality_assessment/gt1l/signal_selection_source_fraction_2: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..-1]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /quality_assessment/gt1l/signal_selection_source_fraction_2
long_name: Signal Selection Source Fraction 2
units: 1
source: ATL06 ATBD - Q/A Statistics
valid_min: 0.
valid_max: 1.
contentType: qualityInformation
description: The fraction of 20m segments with signal_selection_source equal to 2.
coordinates: delta_time lat_mean lon_mean
/quality_assessment/gt1l/delta_time: Array of 64 bit Reals [ = 0..-1]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /quality_assessment/gt1l/delta_time
CLASS: DIMENSION_SCALE
NAME: delta_time
long_name: Elapsed GPS seconds
standard_name: time
units: seconds since 2018-01-01
source: Section 7.2, Q/A Statistics
contentType: referenceInformation
description: Mean number of GPS seconds since the ATLAS SDP epoch for the 10km segment. The ATLAS Standard Data Products (SDP) epoch offset is defined within /ancillary_data/atlas_sdp_gps_epoch as the number of GPS seconds between the GPS epoch (1980-01-06T00:00:00.000000Z UTC) and the ATLAS SDP epoch. By adding the offset contained within atlas_sdp_gps_epoch to delta time parameters, the time in gps_seconds relative to the GPS epoch can be computed.
coordinates: lat_mean lon_mean
/quality_assessment/gt1l/signal_selection_source_fraction_3: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..-1]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /quality_assessment/gt1l/signal_selection_source_fraction_3
long_name: Signal Selection Source Fraction 3
units: 1
source: ATL06 ATBD - Q/A Statistics
valid_min: 0.
valid_max: 1.
contentType: qualityInformation
description: The fraction of 20m segments with signal_selection_source equal to 3.
coordinates: delta_time lat_mean lon_mean
/quality_assessment/gt3l/signal_selection_source_fraction_0: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..21]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /quality_assessment/gt3l/signal_selection_source_fraction_0
long_name: Signal Selection Source Fraction 0
units: 1
source: ATL06 ATBD - Q/A Statistics
valid_min: 0.
valid_max: 1.
contentType: qualityInformation
description: The fraction of 20m segments with signal_selection_source equal to zero.
coordinates: delta_time lat_mean lon_mean
/quality_assessment/gt3l/delta_time: Array of 64 bit Reals [ = 0..21]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /quality_assessment/gt3l/delta_time
CLASS: DIMENSION_SCALE
NAME: delta_time
long_name: Elapsed GPS seconds
standard_name: time
units: seconds since 2018-01-01
source: Section 7.2, Q/A Statistics
contentType: referenceInformation
description: Mean number of GPS seconds since the ATLAS SDP epoch for the 10km segment. The ATLAS Standard Data Products (SDP) epoch offset is defined within /ancillary_data/atlas_sdp_gps_epoch as the number of GPS seconds between the GPS epoch (1980-01-06T00:00:00.000000Z UTC) and the ATLAS SDP epoch. By adding the offset contained within atlas_sdp_gps_epoch to delta time parameters, the time in gps_seconds relative to the GPS epoch can be computed.
coordinates: lat_mean lon_mean
/quality_assessment/gt3l/signal_selection_source_fraction_1: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..21]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /quality_assessment/gt3l/signal_selection_source_fraction_1
long_name: Signal Selection Source Fraction 1
units: 1
source: ATL06 ATBD - Q/A Statistics
valid_min: 0.
valid_max: 1.
contentType: qualityInformation
description: The fraction of 20m segments with signal_selection_source equal to 1.
coordinates: delta_time lat_mean lon_mean
/quality_assessment/gt3l/lon_mean: Array of 64 bit Reals [ = 0..21]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /quality_assessment/gt3l/lon_mean
long_name: Longitude Mean
standard_name: longitude
units: degrees_east
source: Section 7.2, Q/A Statistics
valid_min: -180.
valid_max: 180.
contentType: physicalMeasurement
description: Mean longitude of the 10km segment.
coordinates: delta_time lat_mean
/quality_assessment/gt3l/signal_selection_source_fraction_2: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..21]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /quality_assessment/gt3l/signal_selection_source_fraction_2
long_name: Signal Selection Source Fraction 2
units: 1
source: ATL06 ATBD - Q/A Statistics
valid_min: 0.
valid_max: 1.
contentType: qualityInformation
description: The fraction of 20m segments with signal_selection_source equal to 2.
coordinates: delta_time lat_mean lon_mean
/quality_assessment/gt3l/lat_mean: Array of 64 bit Reals [ = 0..21]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /quality_assessment/gt3l/lat_mean
long_name: Latitude Mean
standard_name: latitude
units: degrees_north
source: Section 7.2, Q/A Statistics
valid_min: -90.
valid_max: 90.
contentType: physicalMeasurement
description: Mean latitude of the 10km segment.
coordinates: delta_time lon_mean
/quality_assessment/gt3l/signal_selection_source_fraction_3: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..21]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /quality_assessment/gt3l/signal_selection_source_fraction_3
long_name: Signal Selection Source Fraction 3
units: 1
source: ATL06 ATBD - Q/A Statistics
valid_min: 0.
valid_max: 1.
contentType: qualityInformation
description: The fraction of 20m segments with signal_selection_source equal to 3.
coordinates: delta_time lat_mean lon_mean
/quality_assessment/gt2l/signal_selection_source_fraction_0: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..-1]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /quality_assessment/gt2l/signal_selection_source_fraction_0
long_name: Signal Selection Source Fraction 0
units: 1
source: ATL06 ATBD - Q/A Statistics
valid_min: 0.
valid_max: 1.
contentType: qualityInformation
description: The fraction of 20m segments with signal_selection_source equal to zero.
coordinates: delta_time lat_mean lon_mean
/quality_assessment/gt2l/delta_time: Array of 64 bit Reals [ = 0..-1]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /quality_assessment/gt2l/delta_time
CLASS: DIMENSION_SCALE
NAME: delta_time
long_name: Elapsed GPS seconds
standard_name: time
units: seconds since 2018-01-01
source: Section 7.2, Q/A Statistics
contentType: referenceInformation
description: Mean number of GPS seconds since the ATLAS SDP epoch for the 10km segment. The ATLAS Standard Data Products (SDP) epoch offset is defined within /ancillary_data/atlas_sdp_gps_epoch as the number of GPS seconds between the GPS epoch (1980-01-06T00:00:00.000000Z UTC) and the ATLAS SDP epoch. By adding the offset contained within atlas_sdp_gps_epoch to delta time parameters, the time in gps_seconds relative to the GPS epoch can be computed.
coordinates: lat_mean lon_mean
/quality_assessment/gt2l/signal_selection_source_fraction_1: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..-1]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /quality_assessment/gt2l/signal_selection_source_fraction_1
long_name: Signal Selection Source Fraction 1
units: 1
source: ATL06 ATBD - Q/A Statistics
valid_min: 0.
valid_max: 1.
contentType: qualityInformation
description: The fraction of 20m segments with signal_selection_source equal to 1.
coordinates: delta_time lat_mean lon_mean
/quality_assessment/gt2l/lon_mean: Array of 64 bit Reals [ = 0..-1]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /quality_assessment/gt2l/lon_mean
long_name: Longitude Mean
standard_name: longitude
units: degrees_east
source: Section 7.2, Q/A Statistics
valid_min: -180.
valid_max: 180.
contentType: physicalMeasurement
description: Mean longitude of the 10km segment.
coordinates: delta_time lat_mean
/quality_assessment/gt2l/signal_selection_source_fraction_2: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..-1]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /quality_assessment/gt2l/signal_selection_source_fraction_2
long_name: Signal Selection Source Fraction 2
units: 1
source: ATL06 ATBD - Q/A Statistics
valid_min: 0.
valid_max: 1.
contentType: qualityInformation
description: The fraction of 20m segments with signal_selection_source equal to 2.
coordinates: delta_time lat_mean lon_mean
/quality_assessment/gt2l/lat_mean: Array of 64 bit Reals [ = 0..-1]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /quality_assessment/gt2l/lat_mean
long_name: Latitude Mean
standard_name: latitude
units: degrees_north
source: Section 7.2, Q/A Statistics
valid_min: -90.
valid_max: 90.
contentType: physicalMeasurement
description: Mean latitude of the 10km segment.
coordinates: delta_time lon_mean
/quality_assessment/gt2l/signal_selection_source_fraction_3: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..-1]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /quality_assessment/gt2l/signal_selection_source_fraction_3
long_name: Signal Selection Source Fraction 3
units: 1
source: ATL06 ATBD - Q/A Statistics
valid_min: 0.
valid_max: 1.
contentType: qualityInformation
description: The fraction of 20m segments with signal_selection_source equal to 3.
coordinates: delta_time lat_mean lon_mean
/quality_assessment/gt3r/signal_selection_source_fraction_0: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..21]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /quality_assessment/gt3r/signal_selection_source_fraction_0
long_name: Signal Selection Source Fraction 0
units: 1
source: ATL06 ATBD - Q/A Statistics
valid_min: 0.
valid_max: 1.
contentType: qualityInformation
description: The fraction of 20m segments with signal_selection_source equal to zero.
coordinates: delta_time lat_mean lon_mean
/quality_assessment/gt3r/delta_time: Array of 64 bit Reals [ = 0..21]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /quality_assessment/gt3r/delta_time
CLASS: DIMENSION_SCALE
NAME: delta_time
long_name: Elapsed GPS seconds
standard_name: time
units: seconds since 2018-01-01
source: Section 7.2, Q/A Statistics
contentType: referenceInformation
description: Mean number of GPS seconds since the ATLAS SDP epoch for the 10km segment. The ATLAS Standard Data Products (SDP) epoch offset is defined within /ancillary_data/atlas_sdp_gps_epoch as the number of GPS seconds between the GPS epoch (1980-01-06T00:00:00.000000Z UTC) and the ATLAS SDP epoch. By adding the offset contained within atlas_sdp_gps_epoch to delta time parameters, the time in gps_seconds relative to the GPS epoch can be computed.
coordinates: lat_mean lon_mean
/quality_assessment/gt3r/signal_selection_source_fraction_1: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..21]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /quality_assessment/gt3r/signal_selection_source_fraction_1
long_name: Signal Selection Source Fraction 1
units: 1
source: ATL06 ATBD - Q/A Statistics
valid_min: 0.
valid_max: 1.
contentType: qualityInformation
description: The fraction of 20m segments with signal_selection_source equal to 1.
coordinates: delta_time lat_mean lon_mean
/quality_assessment/gt3r/lon_mean: Array of 64 bit Reals [ = 0..21]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /quality_assessment/gt3r/lon_mean
long_name: Longitude Mean
standard_name: longitude
units: degrees_east
source: Section 7.2, Q/A Statistics
valid_min: -180.
valid_max: 180.
contentType: physicalMeasurement
description: Mean longitude of the 10km segment.
coordinates: delta_time lat_mean
/quality_assessment/gt3r/signal_selection_source_fraction_2: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..21]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /quality_assessment/gt3r/signal_selection_source_fraction_2
long_name: Signal Selection Source Fraction 2
units: 1
source: ATL06 ATBD - Q/A Statistics
valid_min: 0.
valid_max: 1.
contentType: qualityInformation
description: The fraction of 20m segments with signal_selection_source equal to 2.
coordinates: delta_time lat_mean lon_mean
/quality_assessment/gt3r/lat_mean: Array of 64 bit Reals [ = 0..21]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /quality_assessment/gt3r/lat_mean
long_name: Latitude Mean
standard_name: latitude
units: degrees_north
source: Section 7.2, Q/A Statistics
valid_min: -90.
valid_max: 90.
contentType: physicalMeasurement
description: Mean latitude of the 10km segment.
coordinates: delta_time lon_mean
/quality_assessment/gt3r/signal_selection_source_fraction_3: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..21]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /quality_assessment/gt3r/signal_selection_source_fraction_3
long_name: Signal Selection Source Fraction 3
units: 1
source: ATL06 ATBD - Q/A Statistics
valid_min: 0.
valid_max: 1.
contentType: qualityInformation
description: The fraction of 20m segments with signal_selection_source equal to 3.
coordinates: delta_time lat_mean lon_mean
/METADATA/iso_19139_dataset_xml: Array of Strings [ = 0..0]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /METADATA/iso_19139_dataset_xml
long_name: ISO 19139 Dataset XML
description: ISO 19139 Dataset XML
/METADATA/iso_19139_series_xml: Array of Strings [ = 0..0]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /METADATA/iso_19139_series_xml
long_name: ISO 19139 Series XML
description: ISO 19139 Series XML
/orbit_info/rgt: Array of 16 bit Integers [ = 0..0]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /orbit_info/rgt
long_name: Reference Ground track
units: counts
source: POD/PPD
valid_min: 1
valid_max: 1387
contentType: referenceInformation
description: The reference ground track (RGT) is the track on the earth at which a specified unit vector within the observatory is pointed. Under nominal operating conditions, there will be no data collected along the RGT, as the RGT is spanned by GT2L and GT2R. During slews or off-pointing, it is possible that ground tracks may intersect the RGT. The ICESat-2 mission has 1387 RGTs.
coordinates: crossing_time
/orbit_info/bounding_polygon_lat1: Array of 64 bit Reals [ = 0..4]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /orbit_info/bounding_polygon_lat1
long_name: Polygon1 Latitude
units: degrees_north
source: geo_poly
valid_min: -90.
valid_max: 90.
contentType: auxiliaryInformation
description: Latitude values for the first out of two possible bounding polygons
/orbit_info/cycle_number: Array of 16 bit Integers [ = 0..0]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /orbit_info/cycle_number
long_name: Cycle Number
units: counts
source: POD/PPD
valid_min: 0
valid_max: 50
contentType: referenceInformation
description: Tracks the number of 91-day cycles in the mission, beginning with 01. A unique orbit number can be determined by subtracting 1 from the cycle_number, multiplying by 1387 and adding the rgt value.
coordinates: crossing_time
/orbit_info/crossing_time: Array of 64 bit Reals [ = 0..0]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /orbit_info/crossing_time
CLASS: DIMENSION_SCALE
NAME: crossing_time
long_name: Ascending Node Crossing Time
standard_name: time
units: seconds since 2018-01-01
source: POD/PPD
contentType: referenceInformation
description: The time, in seconds since the ATLAS SDP GPS Epoch, at which the ascending node crosses the equator. The ATLAS Standard Data Products (SDP) epoch offset is defined within /ancillary_data/atlas_sdp_gps_epoch as the number of GPS seconds between the GPS epoch (1980-01-06T00:00:00.000000Z UTC) and the ATLAS SDP epoch. By adding the offset contained within atlas_sdp_gps_epoch to delta time parameters, the time in gps_seconds relative to the GPS epoch can be computed.
/orbit_info/lan: Array of 64 bit Reals [ = 0..0]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /orbit_info/lan
long_name: Ascending Node Longitude
units: degrees_east
source: POD/PPD
valid_min: -180.
valid_max: 180.
contentType: referenceInformation
description: Longitude at the ascending node crossing.
coordinates: crossing_time
/orbit_info/sc_orient_time: Array of 64 bit Reals [ = 0..0]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /orbit_info/sc_orient_time
CLASS: DIMENSION_SCALE
NAME: sc_orient_time
long_name: Time of Last Spacecraft Orientation Change
standard_name: time
units: seconds since 2018-01-01
source: POD/PPD
contentType: referenceInformation
description: The time of the last spacecraft orientation change between forward, backward and transitional flight modes, expressed in seconds since the ATLAS SDP GPS Epoch. ICESat-2 is considered to be flying forward when the weak beams are leading the strong beams; and backward when the strong beams are leading the weak beams. ICESat-2 is considered to be in transition while it is maneuvering between the two orientations. Science quality is potentially degraded while in transition mode. The ATLAS Standard Data Products (SDP) epoch offset is defined within /ancillary_data/atlas_sdp_gps_epoch as the number of GPS seconds between the GPS epoch (1980-01-06T00:00:00.000000Z UTC) and the ATLAS SDP epoch. By adding the offset contained within atlas_sdp_gps_epoch to delta time parameters, the time in gps_seconds relative to the GPS epoch can be computed.
/orbit_info/orbit_number: Array of 16 bit Unsigned integers [ = 0..0]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /orbit_info/orbit_number
long_name: Orbit Number
units: 1
source: POD/PPD
valid_min: 1
valid_max: 65000
contentType: referenceInformation
description: Unique identifying number for each planned ICESat-2 orbit.
coordinates: crossing_time
/orbit_info/bounding_polygon_lon1: Array of 64 bit Reals [ = 0..4]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /orbit_info/bounding_polygon_lon1
long_name: Polygon1 Longitude
units: degrees_east
source: geo_poly
valid_min: -180.
valid_max: 180.
contentType: auxiliaryInformation
description: Longitude values for the first out of two possible bounding polygons
/orbit_info/sc_orient: Array of 16 bit Integers [ = 0..0]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /orbit_info/sc_orient
long_name: Spacecraft Orientation
units: 1
source: POD/PPD
valid_min: 0
valid_max: 2
contentType: referenceInformation
description: This parameter tracks the spacecraft orientation between forward, backward and transitional flight modes. ICESat-2 is considered to be flying forward when the weak beams are leading the strong beams; and backward when the strong beams are leading the weak beams. ICESat-2 is considered to be in transition while it is maneuvering between the two orientations. Science quality is potentially degraded while in transition mode.
coordinates: sc_orient_time
flag_meanings: backward forward transition
flag_values: 0, 1, 2
/gt3l/land_ice_segments/sigma_geo_h: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3l/land_ice_segments/sigma_geo_h
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: Vertical Geolocation Error
units: meters
source: ATL06 ATBD - Segment Geolocation
contentType: qualityInformation
description: Total vertical geolocation error due to PPD and POD, including the effects of horizontal geolocation error on the segment vertical error.
coordinates: delta_time latitude longitude
/gt3l/land_ice_segments/h_li_sigma: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3l/land_ice_segments/h_li_sigma
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: Expected RMS segment misfit
units: meters
source: ATL06 ATBD - Top Level Fitting Routine
contentType: qualityInformation
description: Propagated error due to sampling error and FPB correction from the land ice algorithm
coordinates: delta_time latitude longitude
/gt3l/land_ice_segments/fit_statistics/h_mean: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3l/land_ice_segments/fit_statistics/h_mean
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: Height Mean
units: meters
source: ATL06 ATBD - Iterative Least-Squares Fitting Routine
contentType: modelResult
description: Mean surface height, not corrected for first-photon bias or pulse truncation.
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3l/land_ice_segments/fit_statistics/signal_selection_source: Array of 16 bit Integers [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3l/land_ice_segments/fit_statistics/signal_selection_source
long_name: Signal Selection Source
units: 1
source: ATL06 ATBD - Signal Selection based on ATL03 flags
valid_min: 0
valid_max: 3
contentType: qualityInformation
description: Indicates the last algorithm attempted to select the signal for ATL06 fitting. 0=Signal selection succeeded using ATL03 detected PE; 1=Signal selection failed using ATL03 detected PE but succeeded using all flagged ATL03 PE; 2=Signal selection failed using all flagged ATL03 PE, but succeeded using the backup algorithm; 3=All signal-finding strategies failed.
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
flag_meanings: succeeded_using_pe succeeded_using_flagged_pe succeeded_using_backup failed
flag_values: 0, 1, 2, 3
/gt3l/land_ice_segments/fit_statistics/snr: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3l/land_ice_segments/fit_statistics/snr
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: SNR
units: 1
source: ATL06 ATBD - Iterative Least Squares Fitting Routine
contentType: physicalMeasurement
description: Signal-to-noise ratio in the final refined window
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3l/land_ice_segments/fit_statistics/h_robust_sprd: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3l/land_ice_segments/fit_statistics/h_robust_sprd
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: Robust Spread
units: meters
source: ATL06 ATBD - Iterative Least-Squares Fitting Routine
contentType: referenceInformation
description: RDE of misfit between PE heights and the along-track segment fit.
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3l/land_ice_segments/fit_statistics/n_seg_pulses: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3l/land_ice_segments/fit_statistics/n_seg_pulses
units: counts
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: Number potential segment pulses
source: ATL06 ATBD - Top-Level Fitting Routine
contentType: referenceInformation
description: The number of pulses potentially included in the segment
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3l/land_ice_segments/fit_statistics/dh_fit_dx_sigma: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3l/land_ice_segments/fit_statistics/dh_fit_dx_sigma
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: Sigma of Along Track Slope
units: meters/meters
source: ATL06 ATBD - Iterative Least-Squares Fitting Routine
contentType: qualityInformation
description: Propagated error in the along-track segment slope
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3l/land_ice_segments/fit_statistics/snr_significance: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3l/land_ice_segments/fit_statistics/snr_significance
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: SNR Significance
units: 1
source: ATL06 ATBD - Top-Level Fitting Routine
contentType: physicalMeasurement
description: Probability that signal-finding routine would converge to at least the observed SNR for a random-noise input. Small values indicate a small likelihood of a surface-detection blunder.
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3l/land_ice_segments/fit_statistics/h_expected_rms: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3l/land_ice_segments/fit_statistics/h_expected_rms
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: Expected RMS misfit
units: meters
source: ATL06 ATBD - Iterative ground-window refinement
contentType: qualityInformation
description: Expected RMS misfit between PE heights and along-track segment fit
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3l/land_ice_segments/fit_statistics/dh_fit_dy: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3l/land_ice_segments/fit_statistics/dh_fit_dy
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: Across Track Slope
units: meters/meters
source: ATL06 ATBD - Top-Level Fitting Routine
contentType: physicalMeasurement
description: Across track slope from segment fits to weak and strong beam; the same slope is reported for both laser beams in each pair
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3l/land_ice_segments/fit_statistics/sigma_h_mean: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3l/land_ice_segments/fit_statistics/sigma_h_mean
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: Height Error
units: meters
source: ATL06 ATBD - Propagated Height Errors
contentType: qualityInformation
description: Propagated height error due to PE-height sampling error for height from the along-track fit, not including geolocation-induced error
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3l/land_ice_segments/fit_statistics/h_rms_misfit: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3l/land_ice_segments/fit_statistics/h_rms_misfit
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: RMS Misfit
units: meters
source: ATL06 ATBD -Iterative Least-Squares Fitting Routine
contentType: qualityInformation
description: RMS misfit between PE heights and along- track segment fit
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3l/land_ice_segments/fit_statistics/signal_selection_source_status: Array of 16 bit Integers [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3l/land_ice_segments/fit_statistics/signal_selection_source_status
long_name: Signal Selection Source Status
units: 1
source: ATL06 ATBD - Signal Selection based on ATL03 flags
valid_min: 0
valid_max: 4
contentType: qualityInformation
description: Indicates the status of the last signal selection algorithm attempted (see signal_selection_source). The definition of flag is different for each source and are defined in each of the signal_selection_status flags. (See Land Ice ATBD Table 3-2).
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3l/land_ice_segments/fit_statistics/dh_fit_dx: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3l/land_ice_segments/fit_statistics/dh_fit_dx
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: Along Track Slope
units: meters/meters
source: ATL06 ATBD - Iterative Least-Squares Fitting Routine
contentType: physicalMeasurement
description: Along-track slope from along-track segment fit
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3l/land_ice_segments/fit_statistics/n_fit_photons: Array of 32 bit Integers [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3l/land_ice_segments/fit_statistics/n_fit_photons
_FillValue: 2147483647
long_name: Number of Photons in Fit
units: 1
source: ATL06 ATBD - Iterative Least-Squares Fitting Routine
contentType: physicalMeasurement
description: Number of PEs used in determining h_li, after editing
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3l/land_ice_segments/fit_statistics/w_surface_window_final: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3l/land_ice_segments/fit_statistics/w_surface_window_final
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: Surface Window Width
units: meters
source: ATL06 ATBD - Top-Level Fitting Routine
contentType: physicalMeasurement
description: Width of the surface window, top to bottom
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3l/land_ice_segments/longitude: Array of 64 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3l/land_ice_segments/longitude
long_name: Longitude
standard_name: longitude
units: degrees_east
source: ATL06 ATBD - Top Level Fitting Routine
valid_min: -180.
valid_max: 180.
contentType: physicalMeasurement
description: Longitude of segment center, , WGS84, East=+
coordinates: delta_time latitude
/gt3l/land_ice_segments/latitude: Array of 64 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3l/land_ice_segments/latitude
long_name: Latitude
standard_name: latitude
units: degrees_north
source: ATL06 ATBD - Top Level Fitting Routine
valid_min: -90.
valid_max: 90.
contentType: physicalMeasurement
description: Latitude of segment center, WGS84, North=+,
coordinates: delta_time longitude
/gt3l/land_ice_segments/h_li: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3l/land_ice_segments/h_li
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: Land Ice height
units: meters
source: ATL06 ATBD - Top Level Fitting Routine
contentType: physicalMeasurement
description: Standard land-ice segment height determined by land ice algorithm, corrected for first-photon bias, representing the median- based height of the selected PEs
coordinates: delta_time latitude longitude
/gt3l/land_ice_segments/ground_track/sigma_geo_at: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3l/land_ice_segments/ground_track/sigma_geo_at
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: Along Track Geolocation Error
units: meters
source: ATL06 ATBD - Segment Geolocation
contentType: qualityInformation
description: Along-track component of the geolocation error.
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3l/land_ice_segments/ground_track/ref_azimuth: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3l/land_ice_segments/ground_track/ref_azimuth
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: Azimuth
units: degrees
source: ATL03
contentType: referenceInformation
description: The direction, eastwards from north, of the laser beam vector as seen by an observer at the laser ground spot viewing toward the spacecraft (i.e., the vector from the ground to the spacecraft).
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3l/land_ice_segments/ground_track/sigma_geo_r: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3l/land_ice_segments/ground_track/sigma_geo_r
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: Radial Orbit Error
units: meters
source: ATL06 ATBD - Segment Geolocation
contentType: qualityInformation
description: Radial orbit component of the geolocation error.
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3l/land_ice_segments/ground_track/seg_azimuth: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3l/land_ice_segments/ground_track/seg_azimuth
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: Segment Azimuth
units: degrees
source: ATL03
contentType: referenceInformation
description: Azimuth of the pair-track, east of local north.
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3l/land_ice_segments/ground_track/sigma_geo_xt: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3l/land_ice_segments/ground_track/sigma_geo_xt
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: Across Track Geolocation Error
units: meters
source: ATL06 ATBD - Segment Geolocation
contentType: qualityInformation
description: Across-track component of the geolocation error.
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3l/land_ice_segments/ground_track/ref_coelv: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3l/land_ice_segments/ground_track/ref_coelv
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: Co-elevation
units: degrees
source: ATL03
contentType: referenceInformation
description: Coelevation (CE) is direction from vertical of the laser beam as seen by an observer located at the laser ground spot.
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3l/land_ice_segments/ground_track/x_atc: Array of 64 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3l/land_ice_segments/ground_track/x_atc
_FillValue: 1.7976931348623157e+308
long_name: X Along Track
units: meters
source: ATL06 ATBD - Local Coordinate Systems
contentType: referenceInformation
description: The along-track x-coordinate of the segment, measured parallel to the RGT, measured from the ascending node of the equatorial crossing of a given RGT.
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3l/land_ice_segments/ground_track/y_atc: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3l/land_ice_segments/ground_track/y_atc
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: Y Along Track
units: meters
source: ATL06 ATBD - Local Coordinate Systems
contentType: referenceInformation
description: Along-track y coordinate of the segment, relative to the RGT, measured along the perpendicular to the RGT, positive to the right of the RGT.
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3l/land_ice_segments/dem/dem_flag: Array of 16 bit Integers [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3l/land_ice_segments/dem/dem_flag
long_name: DEM Source Flag
units: 1
source: ATL03
valid_min: 0
valid_max: 4
contentType: referenceInformation
description: Indicates source of the DEM height. Values: 0=None, 1=Arctic, 2=Global, 3=MSS, 4=Antarctic.
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
flag_meanings: none arctic global mss antarctic
flag_values: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4
/gt3l/land_ice_segments/dem/geoid_free2mean: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3l/land_ice_segments/dem/geoid_free2mean
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: Geoid Free-to-Mean conversion
units: meters
source: ATL03
contentType: modelResult
description: Additive value to convert geoid heights from the tide-free system to the mean-tide system. (Add to geoid to get the geoid heights in the mean-tide system.)
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3l/land_ice_segments/dem/dem_h: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3l/land_ice_segments/dem/dem_h
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: DEM Height
units: meters
source: ATL03
contentType: referenceInformation
description: Height of the DEM, interpolated by cubic-spline interpolation in the DEM coordinate system to the PE location. (Best available DEM value in priority of Arctic/Antarctic/Global/MSS)
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3l/land_ice_segments/dem/geoid_h: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3l/land_ice_segments/dem/geoid_h
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: Geoid Height
units: meters
source: ATL03
contentType: referenceInformation
description: Geoid height above WGS-84 reference ellipsoid (range -107 to 86m) in the tide-free system.
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3l/land_ice_segments/geophysical/msw_flag: Array of 16 bit Integers [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3l/land_ice_segments/geophysical/msw_flag
_FillValue: 127
long_name: Multiple Scattering Warning Flag
units: 1
source: ATL09
valid_min: -1
valid_max: 5
contentType: referenceInformation
description: Multiple Scattering warning flag. The multiple scattering warning flag (ATL09 parameter msw_flag) has values from -1 to 5 where zero means no multiple scattering and 5 the greatest. If no layers were detected, then msw_flag = 0. If blowing snow is detected and its estimated optical depth is greater than or equal to 0.5, then msw_flag = 5. If the blowing snow optical depth is less than 0.5, then msw_flag = 4. If no blowing snow is detected but there are cloud or aerosol layers detected, the msw_flag assumes values of 1 to 3 based on the height of the bottom of the lowest layer: < 1 km, msw_flag = 3; 1-3 km, msw_flag = 2; > 3km, msw_flag = 1. A value of -1 indicates that the signal to noise of the data was too low to reliably ascertain the presence of cloud or blowing snow. We expect values of -1 to occur only during daylight.
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
flag_meanings: cannot_determine no_layers layer_gt_3km layer_between_1_and_3_km layer_lt_1km blow_snow_od_lt_0.5 blow_snow_od_gt_0.5
flag_values: -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
/gt3l/land_ice_segments/geophysical/layer_flag: Array of 16 bit Integers [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3l/land_ice_segments/geophysical/layer_flag
units: 1
source: ATL09
_FillValue: 127
long_name: Consolidated cloud flag
valid_min: 0
valid_max: 1
contentType: referenceInformation
description: This flag is a combination of multiple flags (cloud_flag_atm, cloud_flag_asr, and bsnow_con) and takes daytime/nighttime into consideration. A value of 1 means clouds or blowing snow are likely present. A value of 0 indicates the likely absence of clouds or blowing snow.
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
flag_meanings: likely_clear likely_cloudy
flag_values: 0, 1
/gt3l/land_ice_segments/geophysical/bsnow_conf: Array of 16 bit Integers [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3l/land_ice_segments/geophysical/bsnow_conf
_FillValue: 127
long_name: Blowing Snow confidence
units: 1
source: ATL09
contentType: referenceInformation
description: Confidence flag for presence of blowing snow
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3l/land_ice_segments/geophysical/bsnow_h: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3l/land_ice_segments/geophysical/bsnow_h
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: Blowing Snow Layer Top Height
units: meters
source: ATL09
contentType: referenceInformation
description: Blowing snow layer top height
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3l/land_ice_segments/geophysical/tide_ocean: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3l/land_ice_segments/geophysical/tide_ocean
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: Ocean Tide
units: meters
source: ATL03
contentType: referenceInformation
description: Ocean Tides including diurnal and semi-diurnal (harmonic analysis), and longer period tides (dynamic and self-consistent equilibrium).
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3l/land_ice_segments/geophysical/tide_earth: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3l/land_ice_segments/geophysical/tide_earth
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: Earth Tide
units: meters
source: ATL03
contentType: referenceInformation
description: Solid earth tides in the tide-free system.
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3l/land_ice_segments/geophysical/solar_azimuth: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3l/land_ice_segments/geophysical/solar_azimuth
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: solar azimuth
units: degrees_east
source: ATL03
contentType: referenceInformation
description: The direction, eastwards from north, of the sun vector as seen by an observer at the laser ground spot.
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3l/land_ice_segments/geophysical/r_eff: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3l/land_ice_segments/geophysical/r_eff
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: Effective uncorrected reflectance
units: 1
source: ATL06 ATBD - Top-Level Fitting Routine
contentType: referenceInformation
description: Effective reflectance, uncorrected for atmospheric effects.
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3l/land_ice_segments/geophysical/dac: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3l/land_ice_segments/geophysical/dac
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: Dynamic Atmosphere Correction
units: meters
source: ATL03
contentType: referenceInformation
description: Dynamic Atmospheric Correction (DAC) includes inverted barometer (IB) effect.
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3l/land_ice_segments/geophysical/tide_load: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3l/land_ice_segments/geophysical/tide_load
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: Load Tide
units: meters
source: ATL03
contentType: referenceInformation
description: Load Tide - Local displacement due to Ocean Loading (-6 to 0 cm).
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3l/land_ice_segments/geophysical/tide_earth_free2mean: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3l/land_ice_segments/geophysical/tide_earth_free2mean
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: Earth Tide Free-to-Mean conversion
units: meters
source: ATL03
contentType: referenceInformation
description: Additive value to convert solid earth tide from the tide-free system to the mean tide system. (Add to tide_earth to get solid earth tides in the mean-tide system.)
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3l/land_ice_segments/geophysical/bsnow_od: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3l/land_ice_segments/geophysical/bsnow_od
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: Blowing snow OD
units: 1
source: ATL09
contentType: modelResult
description: Optical thickness of blowing snow layer.
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3l/land_ice_segments/geophysical/tide_equilibrium: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3l/land_ice_segments/geophysical/tide_equilibrium
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: Equilibrium Tide
units: meters
source: ATL03
contentType: referenceInformation
description: Long period equilibrium tide self-consistent with the ocean tide model (+-0.04m).
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3l/land_ice_segments/geophysical/cloud_flg_atm: Array of 16 bit Integers [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3l/land_ice_segments/geophysical/cloud_flg_atm
_FillValue: 127
long_name: Cloud Flag ATM
units: 1
source: ATL09
valid_min: 0
valid_max: 10
contentType: referenceInformation
description: Number of layers found from the backscatter profile using the DDA layer finder.
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3l/land_ice_segments/geophysical/solar_elevation: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3l/land_ice_segments/geophysical/solar_elevation
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: solar elevation
units: degrees
source: ATL03
valid_min: -90.
valid_max: 90.
contentType: referenceInformation
description: Solar Angle above or below the plane tangent to the ellipsoid surface at the laser spot. Positive values mean the sun is above the horizon, while negative values mean it is below the horizon. The effect of atmospheric refraction is not included. This is a low-precision value, with approximately TBD degree accuracy.
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3l/land_ice_segments/geophysical/tide_pole: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3l/land_ice_segments/geophysical/tide_pole
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: Solid Earth Pole Tide
units: meters
source: ATL03
contentType: referenceInformation
description: Solid Earth Pole Tide -Rotational deformation due to polar motion (-1.5 to 1.5 cm).
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3l/land_ice_segments/geophysical/e_bckgrd: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3l/land_ice_segments/geophysical/e_bckgrd
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: Expected background count rate
units: hz
source: ATL06 ATBD - Background PE Rate
contentType: referenceInformation
description: Expected background count rate based on sun angle, surface slope, for unit surface reflectance
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3l/land_ice_segments/geophysical/cloud_flg_asr: Array of 16 bit Integers [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3l/land_ice_segments/geophysical/cloud_flg_asr
_FillValue: 127
long_name: Cloud Flag ASR
units: 1
source: ATL09
valid_min: 0
valid_max: 5
contentType: referenceInformation
description: Cloud flag (probability) from apparent surface reflectance. 0=clear with high confidence; 1=clear with medium confidence; 2=clear with low confidence; 3=cloudy with low confidence; 4=cloudy with medium confidence; 5=cloudy with high confidence
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
flag_meanings: clear_with_high_confidence clear_with_medium_confidence clear_with_low_confidence cloudy_with_low_confidence cloudy_with_medium_confidence cloudy_with_high_confidence
flag_values: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
/gt3l/land_ice_segments/geophysical/bckgrd: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3l/land_ice_segments/geophysical/bckgrd
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: Background count rate
units: hz
source: ATL03
contentType: referenceInformation
description: Background count rate, derived from the ATL03 50-shot-average, interpolated to the segment center.
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3l/land_ice_segments/geophysical/neutat_delay_total: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3l/land_ice_segments/geophysical/neutat_delay_total
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: Total Neutral Atmospheric Delay
units: meters
source: ATL03
contentType: referenceInformation
description: Total neutral atmosphere delay correction (wet+dry).
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3l/land_ice_segments/atl06_quality_summary: Array of 16 bit Integers [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3l/land_ice_segments/atl06_quality_summary
long_name: ATL06_Quality_Summary
units: 1
source: ATL06 ATBD - Top Level Fitting Routine
valid_min: 0
valid_max: 1
contentType: qualityInformation
description: The ATL06_quality_summary parameter indicates the best-quality subset of all ATL06 data. A zero in this parameter implies that no data-quality tests have found a problem with the segment, a one implies that some potential problem has been found. Users who select only segments with zero values for this flag can be relatively certain of obtaining high-quality data, but will likely miss a significant fraction of usable data, particularly in cloudy, rough, or low-surface-reflectance conditions.
coordinates: delta_time latitude longitude
flag_meanings: best_quality potential_problem
flag_values: 0, 1
/gt3l/land_ice_segments/segment_id: Array of 32 bit Integers [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3l/land_ice_segments/segment_id
_FillValue: 0
long_name: Reference Point, m
units: 1
source: ATL06 ATBD - Top Level Fitting Routine
contentType: referenceInformation
description: Segment number, counting from the equator. Equal to the segment_id for the second of the two 20m ATL03 segments included in the 40m ATL06 segment
coordinates: delta_time latitude longitude
/gt3l/land_ice_segments/delta_time: Array of 64 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3l/land_ice_segments/delta_time
CLASS: DIMENSION_SCALE
NAME: delta_time
long_name: Elapsed GPS seconds
standard_name: time
units: seconds since 2018-01-01
source: ATL06 ATBD - Top Level Fitting Routine
contentType: referenceInformation
description: Number of GPS seconds since the ATLAS SDP epoch. The ATLAS Standard Data Products (SDP) epoch offset is defined within /ancillary_data/atlas_sdp_gps_epoch as the number of GPS seconds between the GPS epoch (1980-01-06T00:00:00.000000Z UTC) and the ATLAS SDP epoch. By adding the offset contained within atlas_sdp_gps_epoch to delta time parameters, the time in gps_seconds relative to the GPS epoch can be computed.
coordinates: latitude longitude
/gt3l/land_ice_segments/bias_correction/fpb_mean_corr_sigma: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3l/land_ice_segments/bias_correction/fpb_mean_corr_sigma
units: meters
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: fpb mean corr sigma
source: ATL06 ATBD - First-Photon Bias Correction
contentType: qualityInformation
description: Estimated error in fpb_mean_corr
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3l/land_ice_segments/bias_correction/fpb_med_corr_sigma: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3l/land_ice_segments/bias_correction/fpb_med_corr_sigma
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: fpb median corr sigma
units: meters
source: ATL06 ATBD - First-Photon Bias Correction
contentType: qualityInformation
description: Estimated error in fpb_med_corr
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3l/land_ice_segments/bias_correction/fpb_mean_corr: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3l/land_ice_segments/bias_correction/fpb_mean_corr
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: first photon bias mean correction
units: meters
source: ATL06 ATBD - First-Photon Bias Correction
contentType: qualityInformation
description: Estimated first-photon bias (fpb) correction to mean segment height
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3l/land_ice_segments/bias_correction/med_r_fit: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3l/land_ice_segments/bias_correction/med_r_fit
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: mean median residual
units: meters
source: ATL06 ATBD - Top-Level Fitting Routine
contentType: qualityInformation
description: Difference between uncorrected mean and median of linear fit residuals
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3l/land_ice_segments/bias_correction/fpb_med_corr: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3l/land_ice_segments/bias_correction/fpb_med_corr
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: fpb median corr
units: meters
source: ATL06 ATBD - First-Photon Bias Correction
contentType: qualityInformation
description: First-photon-bias correction giving the difference between the mean segment height and the corrected median height
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3l/land_ice_segments/bias_correction/tx_mean_corr: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3l/land_ice_segments/bias_correction/tx_mean_corr
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: tx shape mean correction
units: meters
source: ATL06 ATBD - Transmit-pulse shape correction
contentType: qualityInformation
description: Estimate of the difference between the mean of the full-waveform transmit-pulse and the mean of a broadened, truncated waveform consistent with the received pulse
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3l/land_ice_segments/bias_correction/fpb_n_corr: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3l/land_ice_segments/bias_correction/fpb_n_corr
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: fpb number photons corr
units: counts
source: ATL06 ATBD - First-Photon Bias Correction
contentType: qualityInformation
description: Estimated window photon count after first-photon-bias correction
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3l/land_ice_segments/bias_correction/tx_med_corr: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3l/land_ice_segments/bias_correction/tx_med_corr
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: tx shape median correction
units: meters
source: ATL06 ATBD - Transmit-pulse shape correction
contentType: qualityInformation
description: Estimate of the difference between the median of the full-waveform transmit-pulse mean and the median of a broadened, truncated waveform consistent with the received pulse
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3l/land_ice_segments/fpb_warning_flag: Array of 16 bit Integers [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3l/land_ice_segments/fpb_warning_flag
long_name: fpb_warning_flag
units: 1
source: ATL06 ATBD - FPB Corrections
valid_min: 0
valid_max: 1
contentType: qualityInformation
description: To flag that segments have potentially erroneous FPB corrections, the ATL06 algorithm sets fpb_warning_flag to 1 if full_sat_fract is greater than 0.90 (strong beams) or greater than 0.40 (weak beams) for either of the two ATL03 20 m segments that are used as inputs to each ATL06 40 m segment. Otherwise, fpb_warning_flag is set to 0.
coordinates: latitude longitude delta_time
flag_meanings: best_quality potential_problem
flag_values: 0, 1
/gt3l/residual_histogram/count: Array of 32 bit Integers [ = 0..15][ = 0..747]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3l/residual_histogram/count
_FillValue: 2147483647
long_name: Bin Counts
units: counts
source: ATL06 ATBD - Residual_histogram calculation
contentType: physicalMeasurement
description: Residual count falling with each histogram bin. The top height of each histogram bin may be found in the bin_top_h dataset.
coordinates: delta_time lat_mean lon_mean
/gt3l/residual_histogram/lat_mean: Array of 64 bit Reals [ = 0..15]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3l/residual_histogram/lat_mean
long_name: Latitude Mean
standard_name: latitude
units: degrees_north
source: ATL06 ATBD - Residual_histogram calculation
valid_min: -90.
valid_max: 90.
contentType: physicalMeasurement
description: Mean latitude of the segments included in the histogram
coordinates: delta_time lon_mean
/gt3l/residual_histogram/x_atc_mean: Array of 64 bit Reals [ = 0..15]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3l/residual_histogram/x_atc_mean
long_name: Along Track Coordinate Mean
units: 1
source: ATL06 ATBD - Residual_histogram calculation
contentType: physicalMeasurement
description: Mean along-track coordinate of the segments included in the histogram.
coordinates: delta_time lat_mean lon_mean
/gt3l/residual_histogram/segment_id_list: Array of 32 bit Integers [ = 0..15][ = 0..9]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3l/residual_histogram/segment_id_list
long_name: Segment ID List
units: 1
source: ATL06 ATBD - Residual_histogram calculation
contentType: referenceInformation
description: Segments ids included in each column of the histogram
coordinates: delta_time lat_mean lon_mean
_FillValue: 2147483647
/gt3l/residual_histogram/bckgrd_per_m: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..15]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3l/residual_histogram/bckgrd_per_m
long_name: Expected background PEs
units: 1
source: ATL06 ATBD - Residual_histogram calculation
contentType: physicalMeasurement
description: Number of background PE expected for each vertical meter of the histogram based on the observed background rate (bckgrd).
coordinates: delta_time lat_mean lon_mean
/gt3l/residual_histogram/ds_segment_id: Array of 16 bit Integers [ = 0..9]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3l/residual_histogram/ds_segment_id
CLASS: DIMENSION_SCALE
NAME: ds_segment_id
long_name: Segment ID Index
units: 1
source: ATL06 ATBD - Residual_histogram calculation
valid_min: 1
valid_max: 10
contentType: auxiliaryInformation
description: Relative index of each segment_id used in the derivation of the histogram.
/gt3l/residual_histogram/pulse_count: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..15]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3l/residual_histogram/pulse_count
long_name: Number of Histogram Segment Pulses
units: counts
source: ATL06 ATBD - Residual_histogram calculation
contentType: physicalMeasurement
description: Number of pulses potentially included in the histogram (pulses are counted if they are in the central 20 m of each segment, even if no PE from the pulse are selected).
coordinates: delta_time lat_mean lon_mean
/gt3l/residual_histogram/lon_mean: Array of 64 bit Reals [ = 0..15]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3l/residual_histogram/lon_mean
long_name: Longitude Mean
standard_name: longitude
units: degrees_east
source: ATL06 ATBD - Residual_histogram calculation
valid_min: -180.
valid_max: 180.
contentType: physicalMeasurement
description: Mean longitude of the segments included in the histogram
coordinates: delta_time lat_mean
/gt3l/residual_histogram/delta_time: Array of 64 bit Reals [ = 0..15]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3l/residual_histogram/delta_time
CLASS: DIMENSION_SCALE
NAME: delta_time
long_name: Elapsed GPS seconds
standard_name: time
units: seconds since 2018-01-01
source: ATL06 ATBD - Residual_histogram calculation
contentType: referenceInformation
description: Number of GPS seconds since the ATLAS SDP epoch. The ATLAS Standard Data Products (SDP) epoch offset is defined within /ancillary_data/atlas_sdp_gps_epoch as the number of GPS seconds between the GPS epoch (1980-01-06T00:00:00.000000Z UTC) and the ATLAS SDP epoch. By adding the offset contained within atlas_sdp_gps_epoch to delta time parameters, the time in gps_seconds relative to the GPS epoch can be computed.
coordinates: lat_mean lon_mean
/gt3l/residual_histogram/bin_top_h: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..747]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3l/residual_histogram/bin_top_h
CLASS: DIMENSION_SCALE
NAME: bin_top_h
long_name: Bin Top Height
units: meters
source: ATL06 ATBD - Residual_histogram calculation
contentType: physicalMeasurement
description: Height of the top of each histogram bin, listed in increasing order. The bottom of each bin is equal to the top of the next- lowest bin.
coordinates: delta_time lat_mean lon_mean
/gt3l/segment_quality/reference_pt_lat: Array of 64 bit Reals [ = 0..201]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3l/segment_quality/reference_pt_lat
long_name: Latitude
units: degrees_north
source: ATL06 ATBD - segment_quality group
valid_min: -90.
valid_max: 90.
contentType: referenceInformation
description: Latitude of the reference segment location on the RPT
coordinates: delta_time reference_pt_lon
standard_name: latitude
/gt3l/segment_quality/reference_pt_lon: Array of 64 bit Reals [ = 0..201]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3l/segment_quality/reference_pt_lon
long_name: Longitude
units: degrees_east
source: ATL06 ATBD - segment_quality group
valid_min: -180.
valid_max: 180.
contentType: referenceInformation
description: Longitude of the reference segment location on the RPT
coordinates: delta_time reference_pt_lat
standard_name: longitude
/gt3l/segment_quality/segment_id: Array of 32 bit Integers [ = 0..201]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3l/segment_quality/segment_id
long_name: Reference Point, m
units: 1
source: ATL06 ATBD - segment_quality group
contentType: referenceInformation
description: Segment number corresponding to the second of two ATL03 segments in the ATL06 segment, counted from the RGT equator crossing
coordinates: delta_time reference_pt_lat reference_pt_lon
/gt3l/segment_quality/record_number: Array of 32 bit Integers [ = 0..201]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3l/segment_quality/record_number
long_name: Land Ice Height Index
units: 1
source: ATL06 ATBD - segment_quality group
contentType: referenceInformation
description: For those segments that have adequate signal strength, this parameter gives the record for the pair within the other groups in the granule.
coordinates: delta_time reference_pt_lat reference_pt_lon
/gt3l/segment_quality/signal_selection_source: Array of 16 bit Integers [ = 0..201]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3l/segment_quality/signal_selection_source
long_name: Signal Selection Source
units: 1
source: ATL06 ATBD - Signal selection base on ATL03 flags
valid_min: 0
valid_max: 3
contentType: qualityInformation
description: Indicates the last algorithm attempted to select the signal for ATL06 fitting. 0=Signal selection succeeded using ATL03 detected PE; 1=Signal selection failed using ATL03 detected PE but succeeded using all flagged ATL03 PE; 3=All signal-finding strategies failed.
coordinates: delta_time reference_pt_lat reference_pt_lon
flag_meanings: succeeded_using_pe succeeded_using_flagged_pe failed
flag_values: 0, 1, 3
/gt3l/segment_quality/delta_time: Array of 64 bit Reals [ = 0..201]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3l/segment_quality/delta_time
CLASS: DIMENSION_SCALE
long_name: Elapsed GPS seconds
standard_name: time
units: seconds since 2018-01-01
source: ATL06 ATBD - segment_quality group
contentType: referenceInformation
description: Number of GPS seconds since the ATLAS SDP epoch. The ATLAS Standard Data Products (SDP) epoch offset is defined within /ancillary_data/atlas_sdp_gps_epoch as the number of GPS seconds between the GPS epoch (1980-01-06T00:00:00.000000Z UTC) and the ATLAS SDP epoch. By adding the offset contained within atlas_sdp_gps_epoch to delta time parameters, the time in gps_seconds relative to the GPS epoch can be computed.
coordinates: reference_pt_lat reference_pt_lon
NAME: delta_time
/gt3l/segment_quality/signal_selection_status/signal_selection_status_all: Array of 16 bit Integers [ = 0..201]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3l/segment_quality/signal_selection_status/signal_selection_status_all
units: 1
long_name: Signal Selection Status Flag
source: ATL06 ATBD - Signal selection base on ATL03 flags
valid_min: 0
valid_max: 3
contentType: qualityInformation
description: Indicates confidence of the signal-selection algorithm using all ATL03-flagged PEs. 0=Signal selection succeeded using all ATL03-flagged PEs (or algorithm not attempted); 1=Signal selection using all ATL03-flagged PEs failed the 20-meter-spread test; 2=Signal selection using all ATL03-flagged PEs failed the 10-photon-count test; 3=Signal selection using all ATL03-flagged PEs failed both tests
coordinates: ../delta_time ../reference_pt_lat ../reference_pt_lon
flag_meanings: succeeded failed_20 failed_10 failed_both
flag_values: 0, 1, 2, 3
/gt3l/segment_quality/signal_selection_status/signal_selection_status_confident: Array of 16 bit Integers [ = 0..201]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3l/segment_quality/signal_selection_status/signal_selection_status_confident
units: 1
long_name: Signal Selection Confident Flag
source: ATL06 ATBD - Signal selection base on ATL03 flags
valid_min: 0
valid_max: 3
contentType: qualityInformation
description: Indicates confidence of the signal-selection algorithm using low or better PEs. 0=Signal selection succeeded using ATL03 low-or-better confidence PEs; 1=Signal selection using ATL03 low-or-better confidence PEs failed the 20-meter-spread test; 2=Signal selection using ATL03 low-or-better confidence PEs failed the 10-photon-count test; 3=Signal selection using ATL03 low-or-better confidence PEs failed both tests
coordinates: ../delta_time ../reference_pt_lat ../reference_pt_lon
flag_meanings: succeeded failed_20 failed_10 failed_both
flag_values: 0, 1, 2, 3
/gt3r/land_ice_segments/sigma_geo_h: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3r/land_ice_segments/sigma_geo_h
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: Vertical Geolocation Error
units: meters
source: ATL06 ATBD - Segment Geolocation
contentType: qualityInformation
description: Total vertical geolocation error due to PPD and POD, including the effects of horizontal geolocation error on the segment vertical error.
coordinates: delta_time latitude longitude
/gt3r/land_ice_segments/h_li_sigma: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3r/land_ice_segments/h_li_sigma
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: Expected RMS segment misfit
units: meters
source: ATL06 ATBD - Top Level Fitting Routine
contentType: qualityInformation
description: Propagated error due to sampling error and FPB correction from the land ice algorithm
coordinates: delta_time latitude longitude
/gt3r/land_ice_segments/fit_statistics/h_mean: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3r/land_ice_segments/fit_statistics/h_mean
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: Height Mean
units: meters
source: ATL06 ATBD - Iterative Least-Squares Fitting Routine
contentType: modelResult
description: Mean surface height, not corrected for first-photon bias or pulse truncation.
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3r/land_ice_segments/fit_statistics/signal_selection_source: Array of 16 bit Integers [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3r/land_ice_segments/fit_statistics/signal_selection_source
long_name: Signal Selection Source
units: 1
source: ATL06 ATBD - Signal Selection based on ATL03 flags
valid_min: 0
valid_max: 3
contentType: qualityInformation
description: Indicates the last algorithm attempted to select the signal for ATL06 fitting. 0=Signal selection succeeded using ATL03 detected PE; 1=Signal selection failed using ATL03 detected PE but succeeded using all flagged ATL03 PE; 2=Signal selection failed using all flagged ATL03 PE, but succeeded using the backup algorithm; 3=All signal-finding strategies failed.
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
flag_meanings: succeeded_using_pe succeeded_using_flagged_pe succeeded_using_backup failed
flag_values: 0, 1, 2, 3
/gt3r/land_ice_segments/fit_statistics/snr: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3r/land_ice_segments/fit_statistics/snr
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: SNR
units: 1
source: ATL06 ATBD - Iterative Least Squares Fitting Routine
contentType: physicalMeasurement
description: Signal-to-noise ratio in the final refined window
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3r/land_ice_segments/fit_statistics/h_robust_sprd: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3r/land_ice_segments/fit_statistics/h_robust_sprd
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: Robust Spread
units: meters
source: ATL06 ATBD - Iterative Least-Squares Fitting Routine
contentType: referenceInformation
description: RDE of misfit between PE heights and the along-track segment fit.
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3r/land_ice_segments/fit_statistics/n_seg_pulses: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3r/land_ice_segments/fit_statistics/n_seg_pulses
units: counts
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: Number potential segment pulses
source: ATL06 ATBD - Top-Level Fitting Routine
contentType: referenceInformation
description: The number of pulses potentially included in the segment
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3r/land_ice_segments/fit_statistics/dh_fit_dx_sigma: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3r/land_ice_segments/fit_statistics/dh_fit_dx_sigma
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: Sigma of Along Track Slope
units: meters/meters
source: ATL06 ATBD - Iterative Least-Squares Fitting Routine
contentType: qualityInformation
description: Propagated error in the along-track segment slope
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3r/land_ice_segments/fit_statistics/snr_significance: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3r/land_ice_segments/fit_statistics/snr_significance
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: SNR Significance
units: 1
source: ATL06 ATBD - Top-Level Fitting Routine
contentType: physicalMeasurement
description: Probability that signal-finding routine would converge to at least the observed SNR for a random-noise input. Small values indicate a small likelihood of a surface-detection blunder.
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3r/land_ice_segments/fit_statistics/h_expected_rms: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3r/land_ice_segments/fit_statistics/h_expected_rms
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: Expected RMS misfit
units: meters
source: ATL06 ATBD - Iterative ground-window refinement
contentType: qualityInformation
description: Expected RMS misfit between PE heights and along-track segment fit
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3r/land_ice_segments/fit_statistics/dh_fit_dy: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3r/land_ice_segments/fit_statistics/dh_fit_dy
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: Across Track Slope
units: meters/meters
source: ATL06 ATBD - Top-Level Fitting Routine
contentType: physicalMeasurement
description: Across track slope from segment fits to weak and strong beam; the same slope is reported for both laser beams in each pair
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3r/land_ice_segments/fit_statistics/sigma_h_mean: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3r/land_ice_segments/fit_statistics/sigma_h_mean
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: Height Error
units: meters
source: ATL06 ATBD - Propagated Height Errors
contentType: qualityInformation
description: Propagated height error due to PE-height sampling error for height from the along-track fit, not including geolocation-induced error
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3r/land_ice_segments/fit_statistics/h_rms_misfit: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3r/land_ice_segments/fit_statistics/h_rms_misfit
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: RMS Misfit
units: meters
source: ATL06 ATBD -Iterative Least-Squares Fitting Routine
contentType: qualityInformation
description: RMS misfit between PE heights and along- track segment fit
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3r/land_ice_segments/fit_statistics/signal_selection_source_status: Array of 16 bit Integers [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3r/land_ice_segments/fit_statistics/signal_selection_source_status
long_name: Signal Selection Source Status
units: 1
source: ATL06 ATBD - Signal Selection based on ATL03 flags
valid_min: 0
valid_max: 4
contentType: qualityInformation
description: Indicates the status of the last signal selection algorithm attempted (see signal_selection_source). The definition of flag is different for each source and are defined in each of the signal_selection_status flags. (See Land Ice ATBD Table 3-2).
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3r/land_ice_segments/fit_statistics/dh_fit_dx: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3r/land_ice_segments/fit_statistics/dh_fit_dx
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: Along Track Slope
units: meters/meters
source: ATL06 ATBD - Iterative Least-Squares Fitting Routine
contentType: physicalMeasurement
description: Along-track slope from along-track segment fit
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3r/land_ice_segments/fit_statistics/n_fit_photons: Array of 32 bit Integers [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3r/land_ice_segments/fit_statistics/n_fit_photons
_FillValue: 2147483647
long_name: Number of Photons in Fit
units: 1
source: ATL06 ATBD - Iterative Least-Squares Fitting Routine
contentType: physicalMeasurement
description: Number of PEs used in determining h_li, after editing
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3r/land_ice_segments/fit_statistics/w_surface_window_final: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3r/land_ice_segments/fit_statistics/w_surface_window_final
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: Surface Window Width
units: meters
source: ATL06 ATBD - Top-Level Fitting Routine
contentType: physicalMeasurement
description: Width of the surface window, top to bottom
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3r/land_ice_segments/longitude: Array of 64 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3r/land_ice_segments/longitude
long_name: Longitude
standard_name: longitude
units: degrees_east
source: ATL06 ATBD - Top Level Fitting Routine
valid_min: -180.
valid_max: 180.
contentType: physicalMeasurement
description: Longitude of segment center, , WGS84, East=+
coordinates: delta_time latitude
/gt3r/land_ice_segments/latitude: Array of 64 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3r/land_ice_segments/latitude
long_name: Latitude
standard_name: latitude
units: degrees_north
source: ATL06 ATBD - Top Level Fitting Routine
valid_min: -90.
valid_max: 90.
contentType: physicalMeasurement
description: Latitude of segment center, WGS84, North=+,
coordinates: delta_time longitude
/gt3r/land_ice_segments/h_li: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3r/land_ice_segments/h_li
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: Land Ice height
units: meters
source: ATL06 ATBD - Top Level Fitting Routine
contentType: physicalMeasurement
description: Standard land-ice segment height determined by land ice algorithm, corrected for first-photon bias, representing the median- based height of the selected PEs
coordinates: delta_time latitude longitude
/gt3r/land_ice_segments/ground_track/sigma_geo_at: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3r/land_ice_segments/ground_track/sigma_geo_at
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: Along Track Geolocation Error
units: meters
source: ATL06 ATBD - Segment Geolocation
contentType: qualityInformation
description: Along-track component of the geolocation error.
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3r/land_ice_segments/ground_track/ref_coelv: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3r/land_ice_segments/ground_track/ref_coelv
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: Co-elevation
units: degrees
source: ATL03
contentType: referenceInformation
description: Coelevation (CE) is direction from vertical of the laser beam as seen by an observer located at the laser ground spot.
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3r/land_ice_segments/ground_track/sigma_geo_r: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3r/land_ice_segments/ground_track/sigma_geo_r
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: Radial Orbit Error
units: meters
source: ATL06 ATBD - Segment Geolocation
contentType: qualityInformation
description: Radial orbit component of the geolocation error.
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3r/land_ice_segments/ground_track/seg_azimuth: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3r/land_ice_segments/ground_track/seg_azimuth
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: Segment Azimuth
units: degrees
source: ATL03
contentType: referenceInformation
description: Azimuth of the pair-track, east of local north.
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3r/land_ice_segments/ground_track/sigma_geo_xt: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3r/land_ice_segments/ground_track/sigma_geo_xt
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: Across Track Geolocation Error
units: meters
source: ATL06 ATBD - Segment Geolocation
contentType: qualityInformation
description: Across-track component of the geolocation error.
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3r/land_ice_segments/ground_track/ref_azimuth: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3r/land_ice_segments/ground_track/ref_azimuth
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: Azimuth
units: degrees
source: ATL03
contentType: referenceInformation
description: The direction, eastwards from north, of the laser beam vector as seen by an observer at the laser ground spot viewing toward the spacecraft (i.e., the vector from the ground to the spacecraft).
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3r/land_ice_segments/ground_track/x_atc: Array of 64 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3r/land_ice_segments/ground_track/x_atc
_FillValue: 1.7976931348623157e+308
long_name: X Along Track
units: meters
source: ATL06 ATBD - Local Coordinate Systems
contentType: referenceInformation
description: The along-track x-coordinate of the segment, measured parallel to the RGT, measured from the ascending node of the equatorial crossing of a given RGT.
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3r/land_ice_segments/ground_track/y_atc: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3r/land_ice_segments/ground_track/y_atc
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: Y Along Track
units: meters
source: ATL06 ATBD - Local Coordinate Systems
contentType: referenceInformation
description: Along-track y coordinate of the segment, relative to the RGT, measured along the perpendicular to the RGT, positive to the right of the RGT.
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3r/land_ice_segments/dem/dem_flag: Array of 16 bit Integers [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3r/land_ice_segments/dem/dem_flag
long_name: DEM Source Flag
units: 1
source: ATL03
valid_min: 0
valid_max: 4
contentType: referenceInformation
description: Indicates source of the DEM height. Values: 0=None, 1=Arctic, 2=Global, 3=MSS, 4=Antarctic.
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
flag_meanings: none arctic global mss antarctic
flag_values: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4
/gt3r/land_ice_segments/dem/geoid_free2mean: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3r/land_ice_segments/dem/geoid_free2mean
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: Geoid Free-to-Mean conversion
units: meters
source: ATL03
contentType: modelResult
description: Additive value to convert geoid heights from the tide-free system to the mean-tide system. (Add to geoid to get the geoid heights in the mean-tide system.)
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3r/land_ice_segments/dem/dem_h: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3r/land_ice_segments/dem/dem_h
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: DEM Height
units: meters
source: ATL03
contentType: referenceInformation
description: Height of the DEM, interpolated by cubic-spline interpolation in the DEM coordinate system to the PE location. (Best available DEM value in priority of Arctic/Antarctic/Global/MSS)
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3r/land_ice_segments/dem/geoid_h: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3r/land_ice_segments/dem/geoid_h
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: Geoid Height
units: meters
source: ATL03
contentType: referenceInformation
description: Geoid height above WGS-84 reference ellipsoid (range -107 to 86m) in the tide-free system.
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3r/land_ice_segments/geophysical/msw_flag: Array of 16 bit Integers [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3r/land_ice_segments/geophysical/msw_flag
_FillValue: 127
long_name: Multiple Scattering Warning Flag
units: 1
source: ATL09
valid_min: -1
valid_max: 5
contentType: referenceInformation
description: Multiple Scattering warning flag. The multiple scattering warning flag (ATL09 parameter msw_flag) has values from -1 to 5 where zero means no multiple scattering and 5 the greatest. If no layers were detected, then msw_flag = 0. If blowing snow is detected and its estimated optical depth is greater than or equal to 0.5, then msw_flag = 5. If the blowing snow optical depth is less than 0.5, then msw_flag = 4. If no blowing snow is detected but there are cloud or aerosol layers detected, the msw_flag assumes values of 1 to 3 based on the height of the bottom of the lowest layer: < 1 km, msw_flag = 3; 1-3 km, msw_flag = 2; > 3km, msw_flag = 1. A value of -1 indicates that the signal to noise of the data was too low to reliably ascertain the presence of cloud or blowing snow. We expect values of -1 to occur only during daylight.
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
flag_meanings: cannot_determine no_layers layer_gt_3km layer_between_1_and_3_km layer_lt_1km blow_snow_od_lt_0.5 blow_snow_od_gt_0.5
flag_values: -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
/gt3r/land_ice_segments/geophysical/layer_flag: Array of 16 bit Integers [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3r/land_ice_segments/geophysical/layer_flag
units: 1
source: ATL09
_FillValue: 127
long_name: Consolidated cloud flag
valid_min: 0
valid_max: 1
contentType: referenceInformation
description: This flag is a combination of multiple flags (cloud_flag_atm, cloud_flag_asr, and bsnow_con) and takes daytime/nighttime into consideration. A value of 1 means clouds or blowing snow are likely present. A value of 0 indicates the likely absence of clouds or blowing snow.
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
flag_meanings: likely_clear likely_cloudy
flag_values: 0, 1
/gt3r/land_ice_segments/geophysical/bsnow_conf: Array of 16 bit Integers [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3r/land_ice_segments/geophysical/bsnow_conf
_FillValue: 127
long_name: Blowing Snow confidence
units: 1
source: ATL09
contentType: referenceInformation
description: Confidence flag for presence of blowing snow
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3r/land_ice_segments/geophysical/bsnow_h: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3r/land_ice_segments/geophysical/bsnow_h
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: Blowing Snow Layer Top Height
units: meters
source: ATL09
contentType: referenceInformation
description: Blowing snow layer top height
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3r/land_ice_segments/geophysical/tide_ocean: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3r/land_ice_segments/geophysical/tide_ocean
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: Ocean Tide
units: meters
source: ATL03
contentType: referenceInformation
description: Ocean Tides including diurnal and semi-diurnal (harmonic analysis), and longer period tides (dynamic and self-consistent equilibrium).
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3r/land_ice_segments/geophysical/tide_earth: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3r/land_ice_segments/geophysical/tide_earth
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: Earth Tide
units: meters
source: ATL03
contentType: referenceInformation
description: Solid earth tides in the tide-free system.
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3r/land_ice_segments/geophysical/solar_azimuth: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3r/land_ice_segments/geophysical/solar_azimuth
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: solar azimuth
units: degrees_east
source: ATL03
contentType: referenceInformation
description: The direction, eastwards from north, of the sun vector as seen by an observer at the laser ground spot.
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3r/land_ice_segments/geophysical/r_eff: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3r/land_ice_segments/geophysical/r_eff
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: Effective uncorrected reflectance
units: 1
source: ATL06 ATBD - Top-Level Fitting Routine
contentType: referenceInformation
description: Effective reflectance, uncorrected for atmospheric effects.
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3r/land_ice_segments/geophysical/dac: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3r/land_ice_segments/geophysical/dac
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: Dynamic Atmosphere Correction
units: meters
source: ATL03
contentType: referenceInformation
description: Dynamic Atmospheric Correction (DAC) includes inverted barometer (IB) effect.
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3r/land_ice_segments/geophysical/tide_load: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3r/land_ice_segments/geophysical/tide_load
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: Load Tide
units: meters
source: ATL03
contentType: referenceInformation
description: Load Tide - Local displacement due to Ocean Loading (-6 to 0 cm).
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3r/land_ice_segments/geophysical/tide_earth_free2mean: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3r/land_ice_segments/geophysical/tide_earth_free2mean
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: Earth Tide Free-to-Mean conversion
units: meters
source: ATL03
contentType: referenceInformation
description: Additive value to convert solid earth tide from the tide-free system to the mean tide system. (Add to tide_earth to get solid earth tides in the mean-tide system.)
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3r/land_ice_segments/geophysical/bsnow_od: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3r/land_ice_segments/geophysical/bsnow_od
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: Blowing snow OD
units: 1
source: ATL09
contentType: modelResult
description: Optical thickness of blowing snow layer.
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3r/land_ice_segments/geophysical/tide_equilibrium: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3r/land_ice_segments/geophysical/tide_equilibrium
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: Equilibrium Tide
units: meters
source: ATL03
contentType: referenceInformation
description: Long period equilibrium tide self-consistent with the ocean tide model (+-0.04m).
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3r/land_ice_segments/geophysical/cloud_flg_atm: Array of 16 bit Integers [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3r/land_ice_segments/geophysical/cloud_flg_atm
_FillValue: 127
long_name: Cloud Flag ATM
units: 1
source: ATL09
valid_min: 0
valid_max: 10
contentType: referenceInformation
description: Number of layers found from the backscatter profile using the DDA layer finder.
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3r/land_ice_segments/geophysical/solar_elevation: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3r/land_ice_segments/geophysical/solar_elevation
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: solar elevation
units: degrees
source: ATL03
valid_min: -90.
valid_max: 90.
contentType: referenceInformation
description: Solar Angle above or below the plane tangent to the ellipsoid surface at the laser spot. Positive values mean the sun is above the horizon, while negative values mean it is below the horizon. The effect of atmospheric refraction is not included. This is a low-precision value, with approximately TBD degree accuracy.
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3r/land_ice_segments/geophysical/tide_pole: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3r/land_ice_segments/geophysical/tide_pole
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: Solid Earth Pole Tide
units: meters
source: ATL03
contentType: referenceInformation
description: Solid Earth Pole Tide -Rotational deformation due to polar motion (-1.5 to 1.5 cm).
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3r/land_ice_segments/geophysical/e_bckgrd: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3r/land_ice_segments/geophysical/e_bckgrd
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: Expected background count rate
units: hz
source: ATL06 ATBD - Background PE Rate
contentType: referenceInformation
description: Expected background count rate based on sun angle, surface slope, for unit surface reflectance
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3r/land_ice_segments/geophysical/cloud_flg_asr: Array of 16 bit Integers [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3r/land_ice_segments/geophysical/cloud_flg_asr
_FillValue: 127
long_name: Cloud Flag ASR
units: 1
source: ATL09
valid_min: 0
valid_max: 5
contentType: referenceInformation
description: Cloud flag (probability) from apparent surface reflectance. 0=clear with high confidence; 1=clear with medium confidence; 2=clear with low confidence; 3=cloudy with low confidence; 4=cloudy with medium confidence; 5=cloudy with high confidence
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
flag_meanings: clear_with_high_confidence clear_with_medium_confidence clear_with_low_confidence cloudy_with_low_confidence cloudy_with_medium_confidence cloudy_with_high_confidence
flag_values: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
/gt3r/land_ice_segments/geophysical/bckgrd: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3r/land_ice_segments/geophysical/bckgrd
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: Background count rate
units: hz
source: ATL03
contentType: referenceInformation
description: Background count rate, derived from the ATL03 50-shot-average, interpolated to the segment center.
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3r/land_ice_segments/geophysical/neutat_delay_total: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3r/land_ice_segments/geophysical/neutat_delay_total
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: Total Neutral Atmospheric Delay
units: meters
source: ATL03
contentType: referenceInformation
description: Total neutral atmosphere delay correction (wet+dry).
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3r/land_ice_segments/atl06_quality_summary: Array of 16 bit Integers [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3r/land_ice_segments/atl06_quality_summary
long_name: ATL06_Quality_Summary
units: 1
source: ATL06 ATBD - Top Level Fitting Routine
valid_min: 0
valid_max: 1
contentType: qualityInformation
description: The ATL06_quality_summary parameter indicates the best-quality subset of all ATL06 data. A zero in this parameter implies that no data-quality tests have found a problem with the segment, a one implies that some potential problem has been found. Users who select only segments with zero values for this flag can be relatively certain of obtaining high-quality data, but will likely miss a significant fraction of usable data, particularly in cloudy, rough, or low-surface-reflectance conditions.
coordinates: delta_time latitude longitude
flag_meanings: best_quality potential_problem
flag_values: 0, 1
/gt3r/land_ice_segments/segment_id: Array of 32 bit Integers [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3r/land_ice_segments/segment_id
_FillValue: 0
long_name: Reference Point, m
units: 1
source: ATL06 ATBD - Top Level Fitting Routine
contentType: referenceInformation
description: Segment number, counting from the equator. Equal to the segment_id for the second of the two 20m ATL03 segments included in the 40m ATL06 segment
coordinates: delta_time latitude longitude
/gt3r/land_ice_segments/delta_time: Array of 64 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3r/land_ice_segments/delta_time
CLASS: DIMENSION_SCALE
NAME: delta_time
long_name: Elapsed GPS seconds
standard_name: time
units: seconds since 2018-01-01
source: ATL06 ATBD - Top Level Fitting Routine
contentType: referenceInformation
description: Number of GPS seconds since the ATLAS SDP epoch. The ATLAS Standard Data Products (SDP) epoch offset is defined within /ancillary_data/atlas_sdp_gps_epoch as the number of GPS seconds between the GPS epoch (1980-01-06T00:00:00.000000Z UTC) and the ATLAS SDP epoch. By adding the offset contained within atlas_sdp_gps_epoch to delta time parameters, the time in gps_seconds relative to the GPS epoch can be computed.
coordinates: latitude longitude
/gt3r/land_ice_segments/bias_correction/fpb_mean_corr_sigma: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3r/land_ice_segments/bias_correction/fpb_mean_corr_sigma
units: meters
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: fpb mean corr sigma
source: ATL06 ATBD - First-Photon Bias Correction
contentType: qualityInformation
description: Estimated error in fpb_mean_corr
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3r/land_ice_segments/bias_correction/fpb_med_corr_sigma: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3r/land_ice_segments/bias_correction/fpb_med_corr_sigma
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: fpb median corr sigma
units: meters
source: ATL06 ATBD - First-Photon Bias Correction
contentType: qualityInformation
description: Estimated error in fpb_med_corr
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3r/land_ice_segments/bias_correction/fpb_mean_corr: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3r/land_ice_segments/bias_correction/fpb_mean_corr
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: first photon bias mean correction
units: meters
source: ATL06 ATBD - First-Photon Bias Correction
contentType: qualityInformation
description: Estimated first-photon bias (fpb) correction to mean segment height
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3r/land_ice_segments/bias_correction/med_r_fit: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3r/land_ice_segments/bias_correction/med_r_fit
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: mean median residual
units: meters
source: ATL06 ATBD - Top-Level Fitting Routine
contentType: qualityInformation
description: Difference between uncorrected mean and median of linear fit residuals
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3r/land_ice_segments/bias_correction/fpb_med_corr: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3r/land_ice_segments/bias_correction/fpb_med_corr
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: fpb median corr
units: meters
source: ATL06 ATBD - First-Photon Bias Correction
contentType: qualityInformation
description: First-photon-bias correction giving the difference between the mean segment height and the corrected median height
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3r/land_ice_segments/bias_correction/tx_mean_corr: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3r/land_ice_segments/bias_correction/tx_mean_corr
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: tx shape mean correction
units: meters
source: ATL06 ATBD - Transmit-pulse shape correction
contentType: qualityInformation
description: Estimate of the difference between the mean of the full-waveform transmit-pulse and the mean of a broadened, truncated waveform consistent with the received pulse
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3r/land_ice_segments/bias_correction/fpb_n_corr: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3r/land_ice_segments/bias_correction/fpb_n_corr
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: fpb number photons corr
units: counts
source: ATL06 ATBD - First-Photon Bias Correction
contentType: qualityInformation
description: Estimated window photon count after first-photon-bias correction
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3r/land_ice_segments/bias_correction/tx_med_corr: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3r/land_ice_segments/bias_correction/tx_med_corr
_FillValue: 3.402823466e+38
long_name: tx shape median correction
units: meters
source: ATL06 ATBD - Transmit-pulse shape correction
contentType: qualityInformation
description: Estimate of the difference between the median of the full-waveform transmit-pulse mean and the median of a broadened, truncated waveform consistent with the received pulse
coordinates: ../delta_time ../latitude ../longitude
/gt3r/land_ice_segments/fpb_warning_flag: Array of 16 bit Integers [ = 0..187]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3r/land_ice_segments/fpb_warning_flag
long_name: fpb_warning_flag
units: 1
source: ATL06 ATBD - FPB Corrections
valid_min: 0
valid_max: 1
contentType: qualityInformation
description: To flag that segments have potentially erroneous FPB corrections, the ATL06 algorithm sets fpb_warning_flag to 1 if full_sat_fract is greater than 0.90 (strong beams) or greater than 0.40 (weak beams) for either of the two ATL03 20 m segments that are used as inputs to each ATL06 40 m segment. Otherwise, fpb_warning_flag is set to 0.
coordinates: latitude longitude delta_time
flag_meanings: best_quality potential_problem
flag_values: 0, 1
/gt3r/residual_histogram/count: Array of 32 bit Integers [ = 0..21][ = 0..747]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3r/residual_histogram/count
_FillValue: 2147483647
long_name: Bin Counts
units: counts
source: ATL06 ATBD - Residual_histogram calculation
contentType: physicalMeasurement
description: Residual count falling with each histogram bin. The top height of each histogram bin may be found in the bin_top_h dataset.
coordinates: delta_time lat_mean lon_mean
/gt3r/residual_histogram/lat_mean: Array of 64 bit Reals [ = 0..21]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3r/residual_histogram/lat_mean
long_name: Latitude Mean
standard_name: latitude
units: degrees_north
source: ATL06 ATBD - Residual_histogram calculation
valid_min: -90.
valid_max: 90.
contentType: physicalMeasurement
description: Mean latitude of the segments included in the histogram
coordinates: delta_time lon_mean
/gt3r/residual_histogram/x_atc_mean: Array of 64 bit Reals [ = 0..21]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3r/residual_histogram/x_atc_mean
long_name: Along Track Coordinate Mean
units: 1
source: ATL06 ATBD - Residual_histogram calculation
contentType: physicalMeasurement
description: Mean along-track coordinate of the segments included in the histogram.
coordinates: delta_time lat_mean lon_mean
/gt3r/residual_histogram/segment_id_list: Array of 32 bit Integers [ = 0..21][ = 0..9]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3r/residual_histogram/segment_id_list
long_name: Segment ID List
units: 1
source: ATL06 ATBD - Residual_histogram calculation
contentType: referenceInformation
description: Segments ids included in each column of the histogram
coordinates: delta_time lat_mean lon_mean
_FillValue: 2147483647
/gt3r/residual_histogram/bckgrd_per_m: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..21]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3r/residual_histogram/bckgrd_per_m
long_name: Expected background PEs
units: 1
source: ATL06 ATBD - Residual_histogram calculation
contentType: physicalMeasurement
description: Number of background PE expected for each vertical meter of the histogram based on the observed background rate (bckgrd).
coordinates: delta_time lat_mean lon_mean
/gt3r/residual_histogram/ds_segment_id: Array of 16 bit Integers [ = 0..9]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3r/residual_histogram/ds_segment_id
CLASS: DIMENSION_SCALE
NAME: ds_segment_id
long_name: Segment ID Index
units: 1
source: ATL06 ATBD - Residual_histogram calculation
valid_min: 1
valid_max: 10
contentType: auxiliaryInformation
description: Relative index of each segment_id used in the derivation of the histogram.
/gt3r/residual_histogram/pulse_count: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..21]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3r/residual_histogram/pulse_count
long_name: Number of Histogram Segment Pulses
units: counts
source: ATL06 ATBD - Residual_histogram calculation
contentType: physicalMeasurement
description: Number of pulses potentially included in the histogram (pulses are counted if they are in the central 20 m of each segment, even if no PE from the pulse are selected).
coordinates: delta_time lat_mean lon_mean
/gt3r/residual_histogram/lon_mean: Array of 64 bit Reals [ = 0..21]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3r/residual_histogram/lon_mean
long_name: Longitude Mean
standard_name: longitude
units: degrees_east
source: ATL06 ATBD - Residual_histogram calculation
valid_min: -180.
valid_max: 180.
contentType: physicalMeasurement
description: Mean longitude of the segments included in the histogram
coordinates: delta_time lat_mean
/gt3r/residual_histogram/delta_time: Array of 64 bit Reals [ = 0..21]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3r/residual_histogram/delta_time
CLASS: DIMENSION_SCALE
NAME: delta_time
long_name: Elapsed GPS seconds
standard_name: time
units: seconds since 2018-01-01
source: ATL06 ATBD - Residual_histogram calculation
contentType: referenceInformation
description: Number of GPS seconds since the ATLAS SDP epoch. The ATLAS Standard Data Products (SDP) epoch offset is defined within /ancillary_data/atlas_sdp_gps_epoch as the number of GPS seconds between the GPS epoch (1980-01-06T00:00:00.000000Z UTC) and the ATLAS SDP epoch. By adding the offset contained within atlas_sdp_gps_epoch to delta time parameters, the time in gps_seconds relative to the GPS epoch can be computed.
coordinates: lat_mean lon_mean
/gt3r/residual_histogram/bin_top_h: Array of 32 bit Reals [ = 0..747]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3r/residual_histogram/bin_top_h
CLASS: DIMENSION_SCALE
NAME: bin_top_h
long_name: Bin Top Height
units: meters
source: ATL06 ATBD - Residual_histogram calculation
contentType: physicalMeasurement
description: Height of the top of each histogram bin, listed in increasing order. The bottom of each bin is equal to the top of the next- lowest bin.
coordinates: delta_time lat_mean lon_mean
/gt3r/segment_quality/reference_pt_lat: Array of 64 bit Reals [ = 0..201]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3r/segment_quality/reference_pt_lat
long_name: Latitude
units: degrees_north
source: ATL06 ATBD - segment_quality group
valid_min: -90.
valid_max: 90.
contentType: referenceInformation
description: Latitude of the reference segment location on the RPT
coordinates: delta_time reference_pt_lon
standard_name: latitude
/gt3r/segment_quality/reference_pt_lon: Array of 64 bit Reals [ = 0..201]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3r/segment_quality/reference_pt_lon
long_name: Longitude
units: degrees_east
source: ATL06 ATBD - segment_quality group
valid_min: -180.
valid_max: 180.
contentType: referenceInformation
description: Longitude of the reference segment location on the RPT
coordinates: delta_time reference_pt_lat
standard_name: longitude
/gt3r/segment_quality/segment_id: Array of 32 bit Integers [ = 0..201]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3r/segment_quality/segment_id
long_name: Reference Point, m
units: 1
source: ATL06 ATBD - segment_quality group
contentType: referenceInformation
description: Segment number corresponding to the second of two ATL03 segments in the ATL06 segment, counted from the RGT equator crossing
coordinates: delta_time reference_pt_lat reference_pt_lon
/gt3r/segment_quality/record_number: Array of 32 bit Integers [ = 0..201]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3r/segment_quality/record_number
long_name: Land Ice Height Index
units: 1
source: ATL06 ATBD - segment_quality group
contentType: referenceInformation
description: For those segments that have adequate signal strength, this parameter gives the record for the pair within the other groups in the granule.
coordinates: delta_time reference_pt_lat reference_pt_lon
/gt3r/segment_quality/signal_selection_source: Array of 16 bit Integers [ = 0..201]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3r/segment_quality/signal_selection_source
long_name: Signal Selection Source
units: 1
source: ATL06 ATBD - Signal selection base on ATL03 flags
valid_min: 0
valid_max: 3
contentType: qualityInformation
description: Indicates the last algorithm attempted to select the signal for ATL06 fitting. 0=Signal selection succeeded using ATL03 detected PE; 1=Signal selection failed using ATL03 detected PE but succeeded using all flagged ATL03 PE; 3=All signal-finding strategies failed.
coordinates: delta_time reference_pt_lat reference_pt_lon
flag_meanings: succeeded_using_pe succeeded_using_flagged_pe failed
flag_values: 0, 1, 3
/gt3r/segment_quality/delta_time: Array of 64 bit Reals [ = 0..201]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3r/segment_quality/delta_time
CLASS: DIMENSION_SCALE
long_name: Elapsed GPS seconds
standard_name: time
units: seconds since 2018-01-01
source: ATL06 ATBD - segment_quality group
contentType: referenceInformation
description: Number of GPS seconds since the ATLAS SDP epoch. The ATLAS Standard Data Products (SDP) epoch offset is defined within /ancillary_data/atlas_sdp_gps_epoch as the number of GPS seconds between the GPS epoch (1980-01-06T00:00:00.000000Z UTC) and the ATLAS SDP epoch. By adding the offset contained within atlas_sdp_gps_epoch to delta time parameters, the time in gps_seconds relative to the GPS epoch can be computed.
coordinates: reference_pt_lat reference_pt_lon
NAME: delta_time
/gt3r/segment_quality/signal_selection_status/signal_selection_status_all: Array of 16 bit Integers [ = 0..201]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3r/segment_quality/signal_selection_status/signal_selection_status_all
units: 1
long_name: Signal Selection Status Flag
source: ATL06 ATBD - Signal selection base on ATL03 flags
valid_min: 0
valid_max: 3
contentType: qualityInformation
description: Indicates confidence of the signal-selection algorithm using all ATL03-flagged PEs. 0=Signal selection succeeded using all ATL03-flagged PEs (or algorithm not attempted); 1=Signal selection using all ATL03-flagged PEs failed the 20-meter-spread test; 2=Signal selection using all ATL03-flagged PEs failed the 10-photon-count test; 3=Signal selection using all ATL03-flagged PEs failed both tests
coordinates: ../delta_time ../reference_pt_lat ../reference_pt_lon
flag_meanings: succeeded failed_20 failed_10 failed_both
flag_values: 0, 1, 2, 3
/gt3r/segment_quality/signal_selection_status/signal_selection_status_confident: Array of 16 bit Integers [ = 0..201]
HDF5_OBJ_FULLPATH: /gt3r/segment_quality/signal_selection_status/signal_selection_status_confident
units: 1
long_name: Signal Selection Confident Flag
source: ATL06 ATBD - Signal selection base on ATL03 flags
valid_min: 0
valid_max: 3
contentType: qualityInformation
description: Indicates confidence of the signal-selection algorithm using low or better PEs. 0=Signal selection succeeded using ATL03 low-or-better confidence PEs; 1=Signal selection using ATL03 low-or-better confidence PEs failed the 20-meter-spread test; 2=Signal selection using ATL03 low-or-better confidence PEs failed the 10-photon-count test; 3=Signal selection using ATL03 low-or-better confidence PEs failed both tests
coordinates: ../delta_time ../reference_pt_lat ../reference_pt_lon
flag_meanings: succeeded failed_20 failed_10 failed_both
flag_values: 0, 1, 2, 3