… Over the entire ice cover, this loss of the snow layer can be … on NASA's Ice, Cloud, and Land
Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2). … sea ice utilizing altimetric measurements from CryoSat-2 in …

… from CryoSat-2 beginning in 2010 (Laxon et al., 2013; Kurtz et al., 2014). However, Envisat
and CryoSat-2 … ice thickness data from these instruments that are not preliminary products. …

… for near‐coincident CryoSat‐2 and ICESat2 observations in … freeboards acquired by CryoSat‐2
and ICESat‐2, respectively, … account for snow loss due to snow and sea ice interactions, …

… -wetted, ε ′′ becomes the dielectric loss of brine-wetted snow (ε ′′ bs ) and is also
calculated using a dielectric mixture model, as the sum of the dielectric loss of dry snow, and the …

… Error #3 and #4 are common to Cryosat-2 and ENVISAT (since the loss of the S-Band,
and since the orbit change respectively). The GIM ionosphere error budget is higher at low …

… board the CryoSat-2 satellite, then used on Sentinel-3, initially for user requirements on ice
or … greatly simplifies processing, without any significant loss of performance. Doppler beam …

… sea-ice freeboard defined as the height of the ice surface above the … Arctic ice-volume
decrease at global scale, the CryoSat-2 … sea-ice freeboard defined as the height of the ice surface …

… The satellite data used in this study are along-track, CryoSat-2 radar altimeter observations
of Arctic sea ice freeboard, processed by the Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling (…

… The three data sets of interest are the sea ice freeboard from CryoSat-2 (CS-2), the total
freeboard (snow + ice) from the Airborne Topographic Mapper (ATM), and the snow depth …

… Over the ocean where icebergs are more frequently present, ie near sea-ice covered
regions, Cryosat-2 operates mainly in SAR mode. In the near future the SAR archive will be fully …