C41A:
Advances in Altimetry of the Polar Regions I Posters


Session ID#: 7680

Session Description:
Advances in satellite and airborne altimetry have transformed our capacity to study the polar regions, and the past three decades of altimeter measurements have painted an altogether new picture of how Earth’s ice sheets, sea ice, and polar oceans evolve. As global temperatures have risen, so too have rates of snowfall, ice melting, and sea level rise, and each of these changes impacts upon the neighbouring land, marine, and atmospheric environments.  Altimeter measurements have proved central to our awareness and understanding of Arctic and Antarctic environmental change. This session brings together studies of the polar regions that utilise measurements developed from satellite and airborne altimeter platforms to examine the complementarity of approaches across scientific disciplines, and to advance our understanding of the polar regions. We welcome submissions based on assessments of past, current, and future missions and on the application of altimeter datasets to observe and model polar environmental change.
Primary Convener:  Andrew Shepherd, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
Conveners:  Sinéad L Louise Farrell, PhD, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, Helen Amanda Fricker, University of California, San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States and Walter H F Smith, NOAA College Park, College Park, United States
Chairs:  Walter H F Smith, NOAA Lab Satellite Altimetry, College Park, MD, United States and Sinéad L Louise Farrell, PhD, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Sinéad L Louise Farrell, PhD, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
Co-Organized with:
Cryosphere, Geodesy, and Ocean Sciences

Cross-Listed:
  • G - Geodesy
  • OS - Ocean Sciences
Index Terms:

0726 Ice sheets [CRYOSPHERE]
0728 Ice shelves [CRYOSPHERE]
0750 Sea ice [CRYOSPHERE]
4207 Arctic and Antarctic oceanography [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Rachel Tilling1, Andy Ridout2, Andrew Shepherd3 and Alan Stephen Muir2, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)University College London, London, United Kingdom, (3)University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
ByeongHoon Kim1, Choon-Ki Lee2 and Ki-Weon Seo1, (1)Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South), (2)Korea Polar Research Institute, Incheon, Korea, Republic of (South)
John G Sonntag1, Alexey Chibisov2, Kyle A. Krabill2, Matthew A. Linkswiler1, Craig Swenson3 and James Yungel1, (1)AECOM, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (2)Sigma Space Corporation, Lanham, MD, United States, (3)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, United States
Tommaso Parrinello1, Jerome Bouffard2,3, Pierre Féménias2, Marco Fornari4, Michele Scagliola5, Steven Baker6, David Brockley6, Rubinder Mannan7, Amanda Hall7, Erica Webb7, Albert Garcia-Mondéjar8, Monica Roca9 and Pier-Luca Mantovani10, (1)European Space Research Institute, Frascati, Italy, (2)ESA - European Space Research Institute, Frascati, Italy, (3)RHEA System, Wavre, Belgium, (4)European Space Agency, Leiden, Netherlands, (5)RHEA for ESA, Frascati, Italy, (6)University College London, London, United Kingdom, (7)Telespazio VEGA, Luton, United Kingdom, (8)isardSAT, Surrey, United Kingdom, (9)isardSAT, Barcelona, Spain, (10)ACS, Matera, Italy
Thomas Newman1, John M Brozena2, David Ball3, Robert Liang4, Andrei Abelev4 and Joan M Gardner5, (1)Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, (2)US Naval Research Laboratory, retired, Washington, DC, United States, (3)Harris Corporation, Herndon, VA, United States, (4)US Naval Research Lab, Washington, DC, United States, (5)US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States
Johan Nilsson, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Alex S Gardner, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States and Louise Sandberg Sorensen, DTU Space, Lyngby, Denmark
Noel Gourmelen1, Maria Jose Escorihuela2, Luca Foresta3, Andrew Shepherd4, Alan Stephen Muir5, Anna Hogg6, Monica Roca2, Thomas Nagler7, Steven Baker5 and Mark R Drinkwater8, (1)University of Edinburgh, School of Geosciences, Edinburgh, EH9, United Kingdom, (2)isardSAT, Barcelona, Spain, (3)University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, (4)University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, (5)University College London, London, United Kingdom, (6)CPOM, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, (7)ENVEO Environmental Earth Observation IT GmbH, Innsbruck, Austria, (8)ESTEC, Noordwijk, 2201, Netherlands
Lars Stenseng1, Gaia Piccioni1, Ole Baltazar Andersen2 and Per Knudsen2, (1)DTU Space, Lyngby, Denmark, (2)Technical University of Denmark - Space, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
Lei Chen1, Huan Xie2, Gang Hai2, Shijie Liu2, Jun Liu2, Xiaohua Tong3 and Rongxing Li4, (1)Tongji University, College of Surveying and Geoinformatics, Shanghai, China, (2)Tongji University, Shanghai, China, (3)Tongji University, Center for Spatial Information Science and Sustainable Development Applications and College of Surveying and Geo-Informatics, Shanghai, China, (4)2570 Lane Road, Columbus, OH, United States
Michelle A Hofton1, James Bryan Blair2, David Rabine2, Matthew Beckley3, Colleen Brooks4 and Helen Cornejo5, (1)University of Maryland College Park, Geographical Sciences, College Park, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 61A, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies Greenbelt, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)Sigma Space Corporation, Lanham, MD, United States, (5)SGT Inc., NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Sam F. Thomas, Center for Polar Observation and Modelling, London, United Kingdom and Andy Ridout, University College London, London, United Kingdom
Alejandro Egido, NOAA / GST Inc., STAR/SOCD/Laboratory for Satellite Altimetry, College Park, MD, United States and Walter H F Smith, NOAA College Park, College Park, United States
Anton F Schenk, University at Buffalo, Department of Geological Sciences, Buffalo, United States, Beata M Csatho, University at Buffalo, Department of Geological Sciences, Buffalo, NY, United States, Michiel R van den Broeke, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States and Peter Kuipers Munneke, Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
H Jay Zwally, University of Maryland College Park, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College Park, MD, United States, Jun Li, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, SGT, Inc., NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Brooke Medley, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, John W Robbins, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 615 - Cryospheric Lab, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Donghui Yi, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Thomas Trantow, University of Colorado at Boulder, ECEE, Boulder, CO, United States and Ute C Herzfeld, University Colorado Boulder, Geomathematics, Remote Sensing and Cryospheric Sciences Laboratory; Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, Boulder, United States

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