C11D:
Advances in Altimetry of the Polar Regions I

Monday, 15 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
Chairs:  Walter H F Smith, NOAA College Park, College Park, MD, United States and Sinead L Farrell, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
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

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

8:00 AM
C11D-01
 
Recent Improvements in Arctic and Antarctic Marine Gravity: Unique Contributions from CryoSat-2, Jason-1, Envisat, Geosat, and ERS-1/2
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
8:15 AM
C11D-02
 
Sea Level Change in the Arctic Ocean from Ers, Envisat and Cryosat-2 Radar Altimetry
Thomas Armitage, Duncan Wingham and Andy Ridout, University College London, London, United Kingdom
8:30 AM
C11D-03
 
CryoSat-2 observes Arctic sea ice volume recovery, after anomalously low melting in summer 2013
Rachel Tilling, Andy Ridout, Andrew Shepherd and Duncan Wingham, University College London, London, United Kingdom
8:45 AM
C11D-04
 
Recent Advances in Satellite and Airborne Altimetry over Arctic Sea Ice
Sinead L Farrell1,2, Thomas Newman1,2, Jacqueline Richter-Menge3, Christian Haas4, Alek Petty1,2, David C McAdoo1,2 and Laurence N Connor1, (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)USA CRREL, Hanover, NH, United States, (4)York University, Toronto, ON, Canada
9:00 AM
C11D-05
 
CryoSat-2 Arctic Sea-Ice Thickness: Uncertainties and Outlook
Stefan Hendricks1, Robert Ricker1, Veit Helm1, Christian Haas2 and Malcolm Davidson3, (1)Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany, (2)York University, Toronto, ON, Canada, (3)European Space Research and Technology Centre, Noordwijk, Netherlands
9:15 AM
C11D-06
 
Advances in Airborne Altimetric Techniques for the Measurement of Snow on Arctic Sea Ice
Thomas Newman1,2, Sinead L Farrell1,2, Jacqueline Richter-Menge3, Bruce C Elder3, Julia Ruth4 and Laurence N Connor1, (1)NOAA Laboratory for Satellite Altimetry, NCWCP, College Park, MD, United States, (2)Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, (3)US Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Research and Development Center, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, NH, United States, (4)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego (UCSD), San Diego, CA, United States
9:30 AM
C11D-07
 
Complex Antarctic Ice-Shelf Height Changes Revealed By Eighteen Years of Satellite Radar Altimetry
Fernando S Paolo1, Helen A Fricker1 and Laurence Padman2, (1)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (2)Earth & Space Research, Corvallis, OR, United States
9:45 AM
C11D-08
 
Investigating the Utility of Swath Mode CryoSat Data for Determining Ice Sheet Grounding Line Locations
Anna Elizabeth Hogg1, Andrew Shepherd2, Noel Gourmelen3 and Luca Foresta3, (1)University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, (2)University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom, (3)University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
 
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