nsidc-subsetter
Program for using the NSIDC subsetter api for retrieving NASA Operation IceBridge, ICESat and ICESat-2 data
- NASA Earthdata Login system
- How to Access Data with Python
- NSIDC: what download options are available
- NASA Earthdata CMR API Documentation
Register with NASA Earthdata Login system and add NSIDC_DATAPOOL_OPS to your NASA Earthdata Applications
Calling Sequence
python nsidc_subset_altimetry.py -T 2009-01-01T00:00:00,2009-12-31T23:59:59 \
-B -50.33333,68.56667,-49.33333,69.56667 --version=034 -F NetCDF4 \
--user=<username> -V -Z GLAH12
Products
- GLAH12: GLAS/ICESat L2 Antarctic and Greenland Ice Sheet Altimetry Data
- ILATM2: Airborne Topographic Mapper Icessn Elevation, Slope, and Roughness
- ILATM1B: Airborne Topographic Mapper QFIT Elevation
- ILVIS1B: Land, Vegetation and Ice Sensor Geolocated Return Energy Waveforms
- ILVIS2: Geolocated Land, Vegetation and Ice Sensor Surface Elevation Product
- ATL03: Global Geolocated Photon Data
- ATL04: Normalized Relative Backscatter
- ATL06: Land Ice Height
- ATL07: Sea Ice Height
- ATL08: Land and Vegetation Height
- ATL09: Atmospheric Layer Characteristics
- ATL10: Sea Ice Freeboard
- ATL12: Ocean Surface Height
- ATL13: Inland Water Surface Height
Options
--help: list the command line options
-D X, --directory=X: working data directory
-U X, --user=X: username for NASA Earthdata Login
--version: version of the dataset to use
-B X, --bbox=X: Bounding box (lonmin,latmin,lonmax,latmax)
-T X, --time=X: Time range (comma-separated start and end)
-F X, --format=X: Output data format (TABULAR_ASCII, NetCDF4)
-M X, --mode=X: Local permissions mode of the files processed
-V, --verbose: Verbose output of processing
-Z, --unzip: Unzip dataset from NSIDC subsetting service
Dependencies
future: Compatibility layer between Python 2 and Python 3
Download
The program homepage is:
https://github.com/tsutterley/nsidc-subsetter
A zip archive of the latest version is available directly at:
https://github.com/tsutterley/nsidc-subsetter/archive/master.zip
Disclaimer
This program is not sponsored or maintained by the Universities Space Research Association (USRA), the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) or NASA. This is a work in progress and will be updated with the release of NASA ICESat-2 data. It is provided here for your convenience but with no guarantees whatsoever.