C12A:
Advances in Altimetry of the Polar Regions II

Session ID#: 5128

Monday, 15 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
3007 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Andrew Shepherd, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom and Helen Amanda Fricker, University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego, 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, Walter H F Smith, NOAA Lab Satellite Altimetry, 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
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:

C12A-01
Deriving Time Series of Ice-Sheet Accumulation Variations from Altimeter Measurements of Surface-Elevation Changes (29118)
H Jay Zwally, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Laboratory for Cryospheric Sciences, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Jun Li, NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
C12A-02
Altimetry Waveform Inversion over Antarctica (4613)
Denis Blumstein1, Fernando Nino2, Etienne Berthier3, Frederique Remy4, Sara Fleury4, Nathalie Steunou1 and Nicolas Picot5, (1)CNES French National Center for Space Studies, Toulouse Cedex 09, France, (2)IRD Institute for Research and Development, Marseille Cedex 02, France, (3)Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France, (4)CNRS - Legos, Toulouse, France, (5)CNES French National Center for Space Studies, Toulouse, France
C12A-03
Fine Ice Sheet margins topography from swath processing of CryoSat SARIn mode data (23721)
Noel Gourmelen1, Maria Jose Escorihuela2, Andrew Shepherd3, Luca Foresta4, Alan Stephen Muir5, Kate Briggs6, Anna Hogg7, Monica Roca8, Steven Baker5 and Mark R Drinkwater9, (1)University of Edinburgh, School of Geosciences, Edinburgh, EH9, United Kingdom, (2)Isardsat, Barcelona, Spain, (3)University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, (4)University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, (5)University College London, London, United Kingdom, (6)University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom, (7)CPOM, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, (8)isardSAT, Barcelona, Spain, (9)ESTEC, Noordwijk, 2201, Netherlands
C12A-04
A new Approach to Combine GRACE and ICESat Observations to Estimate Glacial Isostatic Adjustment in East Antarctic (19938)
Bianca Kallenberg, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia, Paul Tregoning, Australian National University, Research School of Earth Sciences, Canberra, ACT, Australia and Anthony Patrick Purcell, Australian National University, Research School of Earth Sciences, Canberra, Australia
C12A-05
Antarctic Peninsula Ice Sheet Mass Balance from Satellite and Airborne Altimetry (23858)
Kate Briggs1, Andrew Shepherd2, Malcolm McMillan3, Lin Gilbert4, Alan Stephen Muir4 and Thomas Flament5, (1)University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom, (2)University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, (3)Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom, (4)University College London, London, United Kingdom, (5)University of Leeds, School of Earth and Environment, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom
C12A-06
Twelve years of Amundsen and Bellingshausen Coast Thinning Observed with Altimetry and Photogrammetry. (19234)
Benjamin Eaton Smith1, David E Shean2, Alexander Huth1, Paul J Morin3 and Ian R Joughin1, (1)Applied Physics Lab, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, (2)University of Washington, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seattle, United States, (3)Polar Geospatial Center, St Paul, MN, United States
C12A-07
A 20-year time series of surface elevation changes of the Greenland Ice Sheet derived from radar altimetry as part of ESA’s Climate Change Initiative (12193)
Rakia Meister, Technical University of Denmark - Space, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark, Kirill Khvorostovsky, Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center, Polar Environmental Remote Sensing, Bergen, Norway, Louise Sandberg Sorensen, DTU Space, Lyngby, Denmark and Rene Forsberg, Technical University of Denmark, Space, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
C12A-08
Cryosat Delivers Monthly and Inter-Annual Height Change for Some Arctic Ice Caps. (11632)
Laurence Gray1, David O Burgess2, Thorben Dunse3, Kirsty Langley3 and Luke Copland4, (1)University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada, (2)Natural Resources Canada, Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada, (3)University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, (4)University of Ottawa, Department of Geography, Environment and Geomatics, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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