Layer Abstract

Bohlander, J. and T. Scambos. 2007. Antarctic coastlines and grounding line derived from MODIS Mosaic of Antarctica (MOA). Boulder, Colorado USA: National Snow and Ice Data Center. Digital media. Accessed 24 April 2008. Background: These outlines were hand-digitized from the Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) mosaic of Antarctica (MOA) image map produced and distributed by the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) at: http://nsidc.org/data/nsidc-0280.html. The coastline includes the ice shelves surrounding Antarctica while the grounding line excludes them. Coastlines for islands surrounding Antarctica are provided separately from the rest of Antarctica's
grounding line.

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The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) Antarctic Cryosphere Access Portal (A-CAP) is a map server that provides data and information pertinent to the frozen regions of the Antarctic ice sheet and the Southern Ocean, including monthly climatologies of sea ice extent and concentration, ice sheet elevation and accumulation, satellite imagery, and more. In addition to providing map images and source data through Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) protocols--Web Map Service (WMS), Web Feature Service (WFS), and Web Coverage Service (WCS)--a dynamic Web interface for exploring these data is also available at http://nsidc.org/agdc/acap/. If you have questions, comments or suggestions, please contact NSIDC User Services at +1.303.492.6199 or nsidc@nsidc.org.

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