Chairs: Sinead L Farrell, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States and Tommaso Parrinello, European Space Research Institute, Frascati, Italy
Primary Conveners: Andrew Shepherd, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom
Co-conveners: Helen A Fricker, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, Sinead L Farrell, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States and Walter H F Smith, NOAA Lab Satellite Altimetry, College Park, MD, United States
OSPA Liaisons: Tommaso Parrinello, European Space Research Institute, Frascati, Italy
Cryosat Level1b SAR/Sarin: Improving the Quality of the Baseline C Products
Michele Scagliola1, Marco Fornari2, Nicolas Tagliani1, Bjoern Frommknecht3, Jerome Bouffard3 and Tommaso Parrinello3, (1)Aresys srl, MILANO, Italy, (2)European Space Agency, Leiden, Netherlands, (3)European Space Research Institute, Frascati, Italy
MABEL photon-counting laser altimetry data in Alaska for ICESat-2 simulations and development
Kelly M Brunt1,2, Thorsten Markus2, Tom Neumann3, Jason M Amundson4, Jeffrey L Kavanaugh5 and William B Cook6, (1)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr., Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)University of Alaska Southeast, Juneau, AK, United States, (5)University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, (6)NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Surface Elevation Measurements of Greenland and Antarctica Using NASA’s Land, Vegetation and Ice Sensor (LVIS)
Michelle A Hofton1, James Bryan Blair2, David Rabine2, Matthew Beckley3, Colleen Brooks4, Helen Cornejo3 and Shane Wake2, (1)Univ Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies Greenbelt, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)Sigma Space Corporation, Lanham, MD, United States
Geophysical Corrections and Modeling for ICESat-2 Science
John W Robbins, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 615 - Cryospheric Lab, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Tom Neumann, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr., Greenbelt, MD, United States and Thorsten Markus, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Characterizing sea ice surface morphology using high-resolution IceBridge data
Alek Petty1,2, Sinead L Farrell1,2, Thomas Newman1,2, Nathan T Kurtz3, Jacqueline Richter-Menge4, Michel Tsamados5 and Daniel Lee Feltham5, (1)NOAA Center for Weather and Climate Prediction, College Park, MD, United States, (2)University of Maryland, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College Park, MD, United States, (3)NASA Goddard, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)USA CRREL, Hanover, NH, United States, (5)University of Reading, Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling, Department of Meteorology, Reading, United Kingdom
Mass Change of the Amundsen Sea sector of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, 1990’s to the Present
Thomas Flament1, Andrew Shepherd2, Malcolm McMillan2, Kate Briggs3 and Anna Elizabeth Hogg3, (1)University of Leeds, School of Earth and Environment, Leeds, United Kingdom, (2)University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom, (3)University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
CryoSat: ESA’s ice explorer mission. 4 years in operations: status and achievements
Tommaso Parrinello1, Nicola Mardle2, Berta Ortega3, Jerome Bouffard1, Stefano Badessi1, Bjoern Frommknecht1 and Malcolm Davidson4, (1)European Space Research Institute, Frascati, Italy, (2)ESOC/ESA, Darmstadt, Germany, (3)ESTEC, Noordwijk, Netherlands, (4)European Space Research and Technology Centre, Noordwijk, Netherlands
Antarctic ice sheet mass loss, glacio-isostatic adjustment and surface processes from ENVISAT, ICESat, CryoSat-2, GRACE and GPS.
Jonathan L Bamber1, Alba Martin2, Nana Schoen3, Andrew Zammit-Mangion2, Scott B Luthcke4, Elizabeth J Petrie5,6, Veit Helm7, Frédérique Rémy8, Bert Wouters9, Matt A King10 and Jonathan Rougier2, (1)University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8, United Kingdom, (2)University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, (3)Bristol Glaciology Centre, Bristol, United Kingdom, (4)Goddard Space Flight Center, Severna Park, MD, United States, (5)Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom, (6)University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom, (7)Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany, (8)CNRS - Legos, Toulouse, France, (9)Univ of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (10)University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
Assessing performance of gravity models in the Arctic and the implications for polar oceanography
Sam F. Thomas, Center for Polar Observation and Modelling, London, United Kingdom, David C McAdoo, NOAA College Park, College Park, MD, United States, Sinead L Farrell, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, John M Brozena, Naval Research Lab, Washington, DC, United States, Vicki A Childers, NOAA, National Geodetic Survey, Silver Spring, MD, United States, Marek K Ziebart, University College London, London, United Kingdom and Andrew Shepherd, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom
