CryoSat-2
Mapping Ice Sheet Grounding Lines With CryoSat-2
... The CryoSat-2 break in surface slope was produced in four study areas based on their scientific pertinence, avail- ability of evaluation datasets or heterogeneous topography relative to the rest of the ...
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Retrieval of snow freeboard of Antarctic sea ice using waveform fitting of CryoSat-2 returns
... Figure 8 shows maps of October monthly averaged snow freeboard values from 2011–2017 as well as the mean of all 7 years. The freeboard distribution corresponds well to what is expected in the Antarctic: the largest ...
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About the consistency between Envisat and CryoSat-2 radar freeboard retrieval over Antarctic sea ice
... months (May–October), although the difference in first-year to multiyear regions is much more pronounced in CS-2 than Envisat radar freeboard. The highest differences occur in re- gions with multiyear sea ice and ...
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Impact of assimilating a merged sea-ice thickness from CryoSat-2 and SMOS in the Arctic reanalysis
... and CryoSat-2 estimates is still poor ...the CryoSat-2 altimeter and SMOS radiometer (referred to as CS2SMOS, available on- line at ...
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Utilizing CryoSat-2 sea ice thickness to initialize a coupled ice-ocean modeling system
... Two CryoSat-2 sea ice thickness products derived with independent algorithms are used to initialize a coupled ice-ocean modeling system in which a series of reanalysis studies are performed for the period ...
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Improving Met Office seasonal predictions of Arctic sea ice using assimilation of CryoSat-2 thickness
... (Fetterer et al., 2016; Rayner et al., 2003), measurements of sea ice thickness are, relatively, much less abundant. How- ever, satellite estimates of winter thickness have been avail- able for a number of years using ...
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An improved CryoSat-2 sea ice freeboard retrieval algorithm through the use of waveform fitting
... The earliest historical remote sensing record of Arctic sea ice thickness is composed of declassified submarine sonar observations extending back to 1958 (Rothrock et al., 1999). The submarine sonar sea ice thickness ...
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CryoSat-2 delivers monthly and inter-annual surface elevation change for Arctic ice caps
... the CryoSat-2 radar altimeter can provide useful estimates of surface elevation change on a variety of Arctic ice caps, on both monthly and yearly ...from CryoSat for both ice caps are consistent ...
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Improved retrieval of land ice topography from CryoSat-2 data and its impact for volume-change estimation of the Greenland Ice Sheet
... from CryoSat-2 JPL solution (2011–2015), with corresponding hydrological basin ...and CryoSat-2 for each color-coded area in ...the CryoSat-2 hill- shaded DEM based on surface ...
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Comparison of CryoSat-2 and ENVISAT radar freeboard over Arctic sea ice: toward an improved Envisat freeboard retrieval
... Fig. 2, the LEW widening displayed by MYI wave- forms is larger for Envisat than for CryoSat-2 ...of CryoSat-2 waveforms to surface properties is mostly due to the Doppler ...
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Empirical parametrization of Envisat freeboard retrieval of Arctic and Antarctic sea ice based on CryoSat-2: progress in the ESA Climate Change Initiative
... is 2 km in diameter (Connor et ...km), CryoSat-2 can also be affected by off-nadir leads, which will result in erroneous freeboard esti- mates (Armitage and Davidson, ...
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Three years of sea ice freeboard, snow depth, and ice thickness of the Weddell Sea from Operation IceBridge and CryoSat-2
... from CryoSat-2 (CS-2) sampled along the same transect are consistently higher (by up to 8 cm) than those computed us- ing OIB ...ICESat- 2 and CS-2 freeboards to estimate snow depth for ...
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A revised calibration of the interferometric mode of the CryoSat-2 radar altimeter improves ice height and height change measurements in western Greenland
... Acknowledgements. This work was supported by the European Space Agency through the provision of CryoSat-2 data and the sup- port for the CRYOVEX airborne field campaigns in both the Cana- dian Arctic and ...
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Mass Balance of Novaya Zemlya Archipelago, Russian High Arctic, using Time-Variable Gravity from GRACE and Altimetry Data from ICESat and Cryosat-2
... Abstract: We examine the mass balance of the glaciers in the Novaya Zemlya Archipelago, located in the Russian High Arctic using time series of time-variable gravity from the NASA/DLR Gravity Recovery and Climate ...
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Surface elevation change and mass balance of Icelandic ice caps derived from swath mode CryoSat-2 altimetry
... Agency CryoSat-2 (CS2) satellite [Wingham et ...km 2 (pulse limited) to ∼ 1.65 × 0.305 km 2 (pulse-Doppler limited), and (3) the interferometer onboard CS2, in the so-called SARIn mode, allows ...
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Lead detection in Arctic sea ice from CryoSat-2: quality assessment, lead area fraction and width distribution
... with CryoSat-2 (CS-2) and the Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR)-based esti- mates of the lead occurrence for leads wider than 3 km has been reported in Röhrs et ...(2012). ...
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Snow-driven uncertainty in CryoSat-2-derived Antarctic sea ice thickness – insights from McMurdo Sound
... The uncertainty associated with these two factors has not been directly investigated using satellite altimeter informa- tion over Antarctic sea ice. This work provides insights from a case study region, McMurdo Sound in ...
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Heterogeneous and rapid ice loss over the Patagonian Ice Fields revealed by CryoSat-2 swath radar altimetry
... Since 2010, the European Space Agency (ESA) radar altimetry mission CryoSat-2 (CS2) (Drinkwater et al., 2005; Wingham et al., 2006) has been acquiring topography data over land ice. Radar in- struments are ...
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A weekly Arctic sea-ice thickness data record from merged CryoSat-2 and SMOS satellite data
... The CryoSat-2 sea-ice thickness product relies on accu- rate measurements of the height of the sea-ice surface above the water level, and therefore relative uncertainties are larger over thin ice (< 1 ...
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A new digital elevation model of Antarctica derived from CryoSat-2 altimetry
... the CryoSat-2 satellite radar al- timeter between July 2010 and July ...1, 2, and 5 km grid cells, and is posted at the modal resolution of 1 ...
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