Oceans Melting Greenland AXCTD

Dataset Name	Sensor	Make	Spatial Resolution	Temporal Resolution	Start Date	End Date
Oceans Melting Greenland AXCTD		Observation	Irregular	Irregular	2016-09-13	2018-09-11

Dataset Description

The Ocean Melting Greenland (OMG) is a NASA/JPL mission to study the how ocean warming is affecting the Greenland Ice Sheet. OMG is a 5-year mission that begun in 2016. Each spring airborne campaigns measure Greenlands outlet glaciers using radar. In the summer, the airborne campaign drops ~250 expendable CTDs (AXCTD), which measure ocean temperature, salinity, conductivity, sound velocity and density as they sink. Simons CMAP contains AXCTD depth profiles from 2016-09-13 to 2018-09-11.

Table of Variables

Data Source

The Oceans Melting Greenland AXCTD data were obtained from the NASA EOSDIS Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center (PO.DAAC) at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA (https://doi.org/10.5067/OMGEV-AXCT1).

https://omg.jpl.nasa.gov/portal/ https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/dataset/OMG_L2_AXCTD

How to Acknowledge

OMG. 2019. OMG Airborne eXpendable Conductivity Temperature Depth (AXCTD) Profiles. Ver. 1. PO.DAAC, CA, USA. Dataset accessed [10-01-2020] at https://doi.org/10.5067/OMGEV-AXCT1.

Fenty, I., J.K. Willis, A. Khazendar, S. Dinardo, R. Forsberg, I. Fukumori, D. Holland, M. Jakobsson, D. Moller, J. Morison, A. Meunchow, E. Rignot, M. Schodlock, A.F. Thompson, K. Tino, M. Rutherford, and N. Trenholm. 2016. Oceans Melting Greenland: Early results from NASAs ocean-ice mission in Greenland. Oceanography 29(4):72-83, https://doi.org/10.5670/ocean.2016.100

Version History

Data accessed on: 10-01-2020