USGS Geoscience Data Catalog
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Peltier, W.R., 1993, Time Dependent Topography Through the Glacial Cycle: IGBP PAGES/World Data Center-A for Paleoclimatology Data Contribution Series 93-015, NOAA/NGDC Paleoclimatology Program, Boulder CO, USA..Online Links:
This is a Raster data set. It contains the following raster data types:
Horizontal positions are specified in geographic coordinates, that is, latitude and longitude. Latitudes are given to the nearest 1. Longitudes are given to the nearest 1. Latitude and longitude values are specified in Decimal degrees.
Range of values | |
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Minimum: | 700 |
Maximum: | 17200 |
Units: | meters |
Resolution: | 1 |
Value | Definition |
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0 | Grid cell not ice-covered |
1 | Grid cell is ice-covered |
Range of values | |
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Units: | logical |
Resolution: | 1 |
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Presentation of results of model ICE4G.
Peltier, W.R., 1994, Ice age paleotopography: Science v. 265, pp. 195-201.
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paleo/ice_topo
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Data format: | The data files are at 1,000 year intervals, for example Top18.asc is the 18,000YBP Topography data file. in format BIL (version 0) 16 bit binary unsigned integers, least significant byte first Size: 3MB |
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Network links: |
<ftp://ftp.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/ice_topo/ice.tar.Z> <ftp://ftp.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/ice_topo/top.tar> <ftp://ftp.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/ice_topo/readme_ice_topography.txt> |
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