Variability of Arctic sea ice thickness and volume from CryoSat-2

R Kwok, GF Cunningham - Philosophical Transactions of …, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
We present our estimates of the thickness and volume of the Arctic Ocean ice cover from
CryoSat-2 data acquired between October 2010 and May 2014. Average ice thickness and …

Thinning and volume loss of the Arctic Ocean sea ice cover: 2003–2008

R Kwok, GF Cunningham… - Journal of …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
We present our best estimate of the thickness and volume of the Arctic Ocean ice cover from
10 Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) campaigns that span a 5‐year period …

Winter Arctic sea ice thickness from ICESat‐2 freeboards

AA Petty, NT Kurtz, R Kwok, T Markus… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA's) Ice, Cloud, and land
Elevation Satellite‐2 (ICESat‐2) mission was launched in September 2018 with the primary …

Arctic sea ice thickness loss determined using subsurface, aircraft, and satellite observations

R Lindsay, A Schweiger - The Cryosphere, 2015 - tc.copernicus.org
Sea ice thickness is a fundamental climate state variable that provides an integrated
measure of changes in the high-latitude energy balance. However, observations of mean ice …

Uncertainties in Arctic sea ice thickness and volume: new estimates and implications for trends

M Zygmuntowska, P Rampal, N Ivanova… - The …, 2014 - tc.copernicus.org
Sea ice volume has decreased in the last decades, evoked by changes in sea ice area and
thickness. Estimates of sea ice area and thickness rely on a number of geophysical …

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

RL Tilling, A Ridout, A Shepherd - The Cryosphere, 2016 - tc.copernicus.org
Timely observations of sea ice thickness help us to understand the Arctic climate, and have
the potential to support seasonal forecasts and operational activities in the polar regions …

Evidence of Arctic sea ice thinning from direct observations

AHH Renner, S Gerland, C Haas… - Geophysical …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The Arctic sea ice cover is rapidly shrinking, but a direct, longer‐term assessment of the ice
thinning remains challenging. A new time series constructed from in situ measurements of …

Arctic sea ice thickness remained constant during the 1990s

P Winsor - Geophysical Research Letters, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
The ice cover of the Arctic Ocean is considered to be a sensitive indicator of global climate
change. Recent research, using submarine‐based observations, suggests that the Arctic ice …

CryoSat‐2 estimates of Arctic sea ice thickness and volume

SW Laxon, KA Giles, AL Ridout… - Geophysical …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Satellite records show a decline in ice extent over more than three decades, with a record
minimum in September 2012. Results from the Pan‐Arctic Ice‐Ocean Modelling and …

Arctic ice cover, ice thickness and tipping points

P Wadhams - Ambio, 2012 - Springer
We summarize the latest results on the rapid changes that are occurring to Arctic sea ice
thickness and extent, the reasons for them, and the methods being used to monitor the …