Surface elevation change and mass balance of Icelandic ice caps derived from swath mode CryoSat2 altimetry

L Foresta, N Gourmelen, F Pálsson… - Geophysical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
… In the four glaciological years before 2014/2015, we find that Vatnajökull's rate of mass
loss was 4.93 ± 0.80 Gt a −1 (−0.69 ± 0.11 m we a −1 ) or ~34% larger than the period of 2010/…

Utilizing CryoSat-2 sea ice thickness to initialize a coupled ice-ocean modeling system

RA Allard, SL Farrell, DA Hebert, WF Johnston… - Advances in Space …, 2018 - Elsevier
… bias using the satellite-derived ice thickness data versus the … with CryoSat-2 ice thickness
exhibits skill in simulating ice … improvements in ice thickness occur over multi-year ice. Based …

A weekly Arctic sea-ice thickness data record from merged CryoSat-2 and SMOS satellite data

R Ricker, S Hendricks, L Kaleschke… - The …, 2017 - tc.copernicus.org
… sea-ice types and thickness ranges. Satellite altimeters, such as CryoSat-2 (CS2), sense the
height of the ice surface above the sea level, which can be converted into sea-ice thickness. …

Increased ice thinning over svalbard measured by icesat/icesat-2 laser altimetry

L Sochor, T Seehaus, MH Braun - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
… Sea region to investigate possible links with increased mass loss during the ICESat 2003–2008
and CryoSat-2 2011–2017 periods, which covers the most part of the ICESat/ICESat-…

Near-real-time Arctic sea ice thickness and volume from CryoSat-2

RL Tilling, A Ridout, A Shepherd - The Cryosphere, 2016 - tc.copernicus.org
… to calculate Arctic sea ice thickness using measurements acquired by CryoSat-2, the latency
… -delivery CryoSat-2 data set based on preliminary orbits to compute Arctic sea ice thickness …

Monthly surface elevation changes of the Greenland ice sheet from ICESat-1, CryoSat-2, and ICESat-2 altimetry missions

YR Lai, L Wang - IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… INTRODUCTION THE mass loss of the Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) has been regarded as …
We integrate ICESat-1/2 and CryoSat-2 ice surface elevation to generate a 17-year SEC time …

25 years of elevation changes of the Greenland Ice Sheet from ERS, Envisat, and CryoSat-2 radar altimetry

LS Sørensen, SB Simonsen, R Forsberg… - Earth and Planetary …, 2018 - Elsevier
… In basin three the data shows a total mass loss of ∼500 Gt, while we see no significant
volume change for the same period. Also, basin four shows significantly larger mass than volume …

Antarctic ice-shelf thickness changes from CryoSat-2 SARIn mode measurements: Assessment and comparison with IceBridge and ICESat

B Zhang, J Liu, Z Wang, T Liu, Q Yang - Journal of Earth System Science, 2020 - Springer
… ablation and wind drift are the ways that ice shelves experience mass loss, especially
basal melting, which has accounted for the majority of ice-shelf mass loss (Rignot et al. 2013; …

Utilisation of CryoSat-2 SAR altimeter in operational ice charting

E Rinne, M Similä - The Cryosphere, 2016 - tc.copernicus.org
ice charting. We present an automatic classification method to derive … ice stages of
development from CryoSat-2 (CS-2) waveforms. This is different from the most common sea ice

Winter Arctic sea ice thickness from ICESat‐2 freeboards

AA Petty, NT Kurtz, R Kwok, T Markus… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
… We compare our monthly sea ice thickness estimates with four different CryoSat-2 data …
in Figure 15, which demonstrate a continued thinning and loss of ice in this 11-year period (since …