C11D:
Advances in Altimetry of the Polar Regions I

Session ID#: 4787

Monday, 15 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
3007 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Walter H F Smith, NOAA College Park, College Park, MD, United States and Sinead Louise Farrell, University of Maryland College Park, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, College Park, MD, United States
Primary Convener:  Andrew Shepherd, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
Co-conveners:  Helen Amanda Fricker, University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego, United States, Sinead Louise Farrell, University of Maryland College Park, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, College Park, MD, United States and Walter H F Smith, NOAA Lab Satellite Altimetry, College Park, MD, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Tommaso Parrinello, European Space Research Institute, Frascati, Italy
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • G - Geodesy
Index Terms:

0738 Ice [CRYOSPHERE]
0750 Sea ice [CRYOSPHERE]
1222 Ocean monitoring with geodetic techniques [GEODESY AND GRAVITY]
4207 Arctic and Antarctic oceanography [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

C11D-01
Recent Improvements in Arctic and Antarctic Marine Gravity: Unique Contributions from CryoSat-2, Jason-1, Envisat, Geosat, and ERS-1/2 (Invited) (13496)
David T Sandwell1, Emmanuel Soliman M Garcia1 and Walter H F Smith2, (1)University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States, (2)NOAA College Park, College Park, MD, United States
C11D-02
Sea Level Change in the Arctic Ocean from Ers, Envisat and Cryosat-2 Radar Altimetry (Invited) (5194)
Thomas W. K. Armitage, Duncan Wingham and Andy Ridout, University College London, London, United Kingdom
C11D-03
CryoSat-2 observes Arctic sea ice volume recovery, after anomalously low melting in summer 2013 (15471)
Rachel Tilling1, Andy Ridout2, Andrew Shepherd2 and Duncan Wingham2, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)University College London, London, United Kingdom
C11D-04
Recent Advances in Satellite and Airborne Altimetry over Arctic Sea Ice (22243)
Sinead Louise Farrell1,2, Thomas Newman1,3, Jacqueline Richter-Menge4, Christian Haas5, Alek Petty1,3, David C McAdoo1,3 and Laurence N Connor3, (1)University of Maryland, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College Park, MD, United States, (2)NOAA Center for Weather and Climate Prediction, College Park, United States, (3)NOAA Center for Weather and Climate Prediction, College Park, MD, United States, (4)US Arctic Research Commission & University of Alaska Fairbanks, Hanover, NH, United States, (5)York University, Toronto, ON, Canada
C11D-05
CryoSat-2 Arctic Sea-Ice Thickness: Uncertainties and Outlook (16266)
Stefan Hendricks1, Robert Ricker1, Veit Helm2, Christian Haas3 and Malcolm Davidson4, (1)Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany, (2)Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany, (3)York University, Toronto, ON, Canada, (4)European Space Research and Technology Centre, Noordwijk, Netherlands
C11D-06
Advances in Airborne Altimetric Techniques for the Measurement of Snow on Arctic Sea Ice (20218)
Thomas Newman1,2, Sinead Louise Farrell3,4, Jacqueline Richter-Menge5, Bruce C Elder5, Julia Ruth6 and Laurence N Connor7, (1)Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, (2)NOAA Laboratory for Satellite Altimetry, NCWCP, College Park, MD, United States, (3)University of Maryland, Cooperative Institute for Satellite Earth System Studies (CISESS), Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC), College Park, United States, (4)NOAA Laboratory for Satellite Altimetry, NCWCP, College Park, United States, (5)US Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Research and Development Center, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, NH, United States, (6)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego (UCSD), San Diego, CA, United States, (7)NOAA Laboratory for Satellite Altimetry, College Park, MD, United States
C11D-07
Complex Antarctic Ice-Shelf Height Changes Revealed By Eighteen Years of Satellite Radar Altimetry (9021)
Fernando S Paolo, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, Helen Amanda Fricker, University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego, United States and Laurence Padman, Earth & Space Research, Corvallis, United States
C11D-08
Investigating the Utility of Swath Mode CryoSat Data for Determining Ice Sheet Grounding Line Locations (23271)
Anna Hogg, CPOM, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, Andrew Shepherd, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, Noel Gourmelen, University of Edinburgh, School of Geosciences, Edinburgh, EH9, United Kingdom and Luca Foresta, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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