Altimetry for the future: Building on 25 years of progress

S Abdalla, AA Kolahchi, M Ablain, S Adusumilli… - Advances in Space …, 2021 - Elsevier
In 2018 we celebrated 25 years of development of radar altimetry, and the progress
achieved by this methodology in the fields of global and coastal oceanography, hydrology …

Measuring glacier mass changes from space—a review

E Berthier, D Floriciou, AS Gardner… - Reports on Progress …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Glaciers distinct from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are currently losing mass
rapidly with direct and severe impacts on the habitability of some regions on Earth as glacier …

Mass balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet from 1992 to 2018

Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract The Greenland Ice Sheet has been a major contributor to global sea-level rise in
recent decades,, and it is expected to continue to be so. Although increases in glacier flow …

Mass balance of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets from 1992 to 2020

IN Otosaka, A Shepherd, ER Ivins… - Earth System …, 2022 - essd.copernicus.org
Ice losses from the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets have accelerated since the 1990s,
accounting for a significant increase in global mean sea level. Here, we present a new 29 …

Earth's ice imbalance

T Slater, IR Lawrence, IN Otosaka, A Shepherd… - The …, 2021 - tc.copernicus.org
We combine satellite observations and numerical models to show that Earth lost 28 trillion
tonnes of ice between 1994 and 2017. Arctic sea ice (7.6 trillion tonnes), Antarctic ice …

Reconciling Svalbard glacier mass balance

TV Schuler, J Kohler, N Elagina, JOM Hagen… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Since the first estimates of Svalbard-wide glacier mass balance were made in the early
2000s, there has been great progress in remote sensing and modeling of mass balance …

Annual mass budget of Antarctic ice shelves from 1997 to 2021

BJ Davison, AE Hogg, N Gourmelen, L Jakob… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Antarctic ice shelves moderate the contribution of the Antarctic Ice Sheet to global sea level
rise; however, ice shelf health remains poorly constrained. Here, we present the annual …

[HTML][HTML] The Copernicus polar ice and snow topography altimeter (CRISTAL) high-priority candidate mission

M Kern, R Cullen, B Berruti, J Bouffard, T Casal… - The …, 2020 - tc.copernicus.org
Abstract The Copernicus Polar Ice and Snow Topography Altimeter (CRISTAL) mission is
one of six high-priority candidate missions (HPCMs) under consideration by the European …

[HTML][HTML] Spatially and temporally resolved ice loss in High Mountain Asia and the Gulf of Alaska observed by CryoSat-2 swath altimetry between 2010 and 2019

L Jakob, N Gourmelen, M Ewart, S Plummer - The Cryosphere, 2021 - tc.copernicus.org
Glaciers are currently the largest contributor to sea level rise after ocean thermal expansion,
contributing∼ 30% to the sea level budget. Global monitoring of these regions remains a …

[HTML][HTML] Heterogeneous and rapid ice loss over the Patagonian Ice Fields revealed by CryoSat-2 swath radar altimetry

L Foresta, N Gourmelen, F Weissgerber… - Remote Sensing of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The Northern and Southern Patagonian Ice Fields (NPI and SPI) in South America
are the largest bodies of ice in the Southern hemisphere outside of Antarctica and the …