Data Overview

Both paleo ice sheet data, which records historical ice sheet change, and contemporary ice sheet data, which is tabulated by modern satellite missions, are crucial for shedding light on ice sheet sensitivity to climate change. An important goal of GHub is to host selected ice-sheet datasets that are typically difficult to procure, making both contemporary and paleoclimatologic datasets accessible to the ice-sheet modeling community.

Offering both of these types of ice sheet data in a central location will foster the appropriate use of datasets to validate models, enable the use of valid but esoteric datasets in modeling, and ensure the participation of modelers in the data collection process.