C12A:
Advances in Altimetry of the Polar Regions II

Monday, 15 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  Andrew Shepherd, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom and Helen A Fricker, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, 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, Walter H F Smith, NOAA Lab Satellite Altimetry, College Park, MD, United States and Sinead L Farrell, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Tommaso Parrinello, European Space Research Institute, Frascati, Italy

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

10:20 AM
 
Deriving Time Series of Ice-Sheet Accumulation Variations from Altimeter Measurements of Surface-Elevation Changes
H Jay Zwally, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Jun Li, NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
10:35 AM
 
Altimetry Waveform Inversion over Antarctica
Denis Blumstein1, Fernando Nino2, Etienne Berthier3, Frédérique Rémy3, Sara Fleury3, Nathalie Steunou1 and Nicolas Picot1, (1)CNES French National Center for Space Studies, Toulouse Cedex 09, France, (2)IRD Institute for Research and Development, Marseille Cedex 02, France, (3)CNRS - Legos, Toulouse, France
10:50 AM
 
Fine Ice Sheet margins topography from swath processing of CryoSat SARIn mode data
Noel Gourmelen1, Maria Jose Escorihuela2, Andrew Shepherd3, Luca Foresta1, Alan Muir4, Kate Briggs5, Anna Elizabeth Hogg5, Mònica Roca6, Steven Baker4 and Mark R Drinkwater7, (1)University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, (2)Isardsat, Barcelona, Spain, (3)University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom, (4)University College London, London, United Kingdom, (5)University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, (6)isardSAT, Barcelona, Spain, (7)ESTEC, Noordwijk, 2201, Netherlands
11:05 AM
 
A new Approach to Combine GRACE and ICESat Observations to Estimate Glacial Isostatic Adjustment in East Antarctic
Bianca Kallenberg1, Paul Tregoning2 and Anthony Purcell2, (1)Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia, (2)Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
11:20 AM
 
Antarctic Peninsula Ice Sheet Mass Balance from Satellite and Airborne Altimetry
Kate Briggs1, Andrew Shepherd2, Malcolm McMillan2, Lin Gilbert3, Alan Muir3 and Thomas Flament4, (1)University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, (2)University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom, (3)University College London, London, United Kingdom, (4)University of Leeds, School of Earth and Environment, Leeds, United Kingdom
11:35 AM
 
Twelve years of Amundsen and Bellingshausen Coast Thinning Observed with Altimetry and Photogrammetry.
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)Applied Physics Lab, University of Washington, Polar Science Center, Seattle, WA, United States, (3)Polar Geospatial Center, St Paul, MN, United States
11:50 AM
 
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
Rakia Meister1, Kirill Khvorostovsky2, Louise Sandberg Sørensen3 and Rene Forsberg1, (1)Technical University of Denmark - Space, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark, (2)Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center, Polar Environmental Remote Sensing, Bergen, Norway, (3)DTU Space, Lyngby, Denmark
12:05 PM
 
Cryosat Delivers Monthly and Inter-Annual Height Change for Some Arctic Ice Caps.
Laurence Gray1, David O Burgess2, Thorben Dunse3, Kirsty Langley3 and Luke Copland1, (1)University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada, (2)Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada, (3)University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
 
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