Arctic Freeboard and Snow Depth From Near-Coincident CryoSat-2 and ICESat-2 (CRYO2ICE) Observations: A First Examination of Winter Sea Ice During 2020 …

RMF Hansen, H Skourup, E Rinne, KV Høyland… - Earth and Space …, 2024 - orbit.dtu.dk
In the summer of 2020, ESA changed the orbit of CryoSat-2 to align periodically with NASA's
ICESat-2 mission, a campaign known as CRYO2ICE, which allows for near-coincident …

Arctic freeboard and snow depth from near‐coincident CryoSat‐2 and ICESat‐2 (CRYO2ICE) observations: A first examination of winter sea ice during 2020–2022

RM Fredensborg Hansen, H Skourup… - Earth and Space …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
In the summer of 2020, ESA changed the orbit of CryoSat‐2 to align periodically with NASA's
ICESat‐2 mission, a campaign known as CRYO2ICE, which allows for near‐coincident …

Arctic snow depth and sea ice thickness from ICESat‐2 and CryoSat‐2 freeboards: A first examination

R Kwok, S Kacimi, MA Webster… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We present a first examination of Arctic sea ice snow depth estimates from differencing
satellite lidar (ICESat‐2) and radar (CryoSat‐2) freeboards. These estimates cover the …

[HTML][HTML] Snow-driven uncertainty in CryoSat-2-derived Antarctic sea ice thickness–insights from McMurdo Sound

D Price, I Soltanzadeh, W Rack, E Dale - The Cryosphere, 2019 - tc.copernicus.org
Abstract Knowledge of the snow depth distribution on Antarctic sea ice is poor but is critical
to obtaining sea ice thickness from satellite altimetry measurements of the freeboard. We …

Estimating snow depth over Arctic sea ice from calibrated dual-frequency radar freeboards

IR Lawrence, MC Tsamados, JC Stroeve… - The …, 2018 - tc.copernicus.org
Snow depth on sea ice remains one of the largest uncertainties in sea ice thickness
retrievals from satellite altimetry. Here we outline an approach for deriving snow depth that …

Arctic snow depth, ice thickness, and volume from ICESat‐2 and CryoSat‐2: 2018–2021

S Kacimi, R Kwok - Geophysical Research Letters, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Using ICESat‐2 and CryoSat‐2 freeboards, we examine the variability of monthly
Arctic sea ice snow depth, thickness and volume between October 2018 and April 2021. For …

Potential basin-scale estimates of Arctic snow depth with sea ice freeboards from CryoSat-2 and ICESat-2: An exploratory analysis

R Kwok, T Markus - Advances in Space Research, 2018 - Elsevier
The potential of deriving snow depth estimates using differences in freeboard heights from
CryoSat-2 (CS-2) and ICESat-2 (IS-2) is examined. In our analysis, we use lidar freeboard …

Effect of snow salinity on CryoSat‐2 Arctic first‐year sea ice freeboard measurements

V Nandan, T Geldsetzer, J Yackel… - Geophysical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The European Space Agency's CryoSat‐2 satellite mission provides radar altimeter
data that are used to derive estimates of sea ice thickness and volume. These data are …

Snow depth on Arctic sea ice from ICESat-2 and CryoSat-2

R Kwok, S Kacimi, M Webster… - AGU Fall Meeting …, 2019 - ui.adsabs.harvard.edu
Prior to the launch of ICESat-2 (IS-2), the potential to produce basin-scale estimates of snow
depth by differencing freeboard heights from CryoSat-2 (CS-2) and IS-2 was examined in …

A Bayesian approach towards daily pan-Arctic sea ice freeboard estimates from combined CryoSat-2 and Sentinel-3 satellite observations

W Gregory, IR Lawrence, M Tsamados - The Cryosphere, 2021 - tc.copernicus.org
Observations of sea ice freeboard from satellite radar altimeters are crucial in the derivation
of sea ice thickness estimates, which in turn provide information on sea ice forecasts …