Gridded 3.125 km Arctic sea ice deformation data derived from the ICESat-2 University of Maryland-Ridge Detection Algorithm

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This data-set contains sea ice deformation variables at the pan-Arctic scale (> 60 degrees N), on a 3.125 km Equal-Area Scalable Earth Grid 2.0 (EASE2) for each month from October 2018 to September 2025. Deformation variables are obtained by applying the University of Maryland-Ridge Detection Algorithm (UMD-RDA) (Duncan & Farrell, 2022), a surface retracker, to the Ice, Cloud, and Land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) global geolocated photon heights product (ATL03) (Neumann et al., 2023; Neumann et al., 2025). From the sea ice surface topography obtained by the UMD-RDA, deformation variables such as surface roughness, pressure ridge sail height, maximum sail height, sail width and sail spacing, pressure ridge length, and ridging intensity are derived. Each deformation variable is accompanied by the number of measurements per grid cell (indicated with suffix n) and a separate interpolated variable (indicated with suffix interp). Interpolated variables are bounded where the AMSR2 monthly mean sea ice concentration (Spreen et al., 2008), provided in each file, is greater than or equal to 15%. Please refer to the provided "User Guide" for further information about this product.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.990275
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL100272
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.5067/ATLAS/ATL03.006
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.5067/ATLAS/ATL03.007
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.1029/2005JC003384
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.990275
Provenance
Creator Duncan, Kyle ORCID logo; Farrell, Sinead L ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2026
Funding Reference National Aeronautics and Space Administration https://doi.org/10.13039/100000104 Crossref Funder ID 80NSSC24K1450 ; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration https://doi.org/10.13039/100000192 Crossref Funder ID NA24NESX432C0001 Cooperative Institute for Satellite Earth System Studies – CISESS at the University of Maryland/ESSIC
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Representation
Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 84 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-180.000W, 60.000S, 180.000E, 90.000N); Arctic
Temporal Coverage Begin 2018-10-01T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2025-09-30T00:00:00Z