C43D
Advances in Altimetry of the Polar Regions II

Thursday, 17 December 2015: 13:40-15:40
3007 (Moscone West)
Primary Conveners:  Andrew Shepherd, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom
Conveners:  Sinead L Farrell, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, Helen A Fricker, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States and Walter H F Smith, NOAA College Park, College Park, MD, United States
Chairs:  Andrew Shepherd, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom and Helen A Fricker, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Sinead L Farrell, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
13:40
NASA IceBridge: Scientific Insights from Airborne Surveys of the Polar Sea Ice Covers (Invited) (72810)
Jacqueline Richter-Menge, USA CRREL, Hanover, NH, United States and Sinead L Farrell, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
13:55
Arctic sea surface height variability and change from satellite radar altimetry and GRACE, 2003–2014 (64577)
Thomas Armitage1, Sheldon Bacon2, Andy Ridout1, Sam F. Thomas3, Yevgeny Aksenov2 and Duncan Wingham1, (1)University College London, London, United Kingdom, (2)National Oceanography Center, Liverpool, L3, United Kingdom, (3)center for Polar Observation and Modelling at UCL, polar, London, United Kingdom
14:10
On the Flow of Atlantic Water Towards the Arctic Ocean; a Synergy Between Altimetry and Hydrography.  (Invited) (60691)
Léon Chafik1, Nilsson Johan2, Oeystein Skagseth3, Peter Lundberg2 and Laboratory of Satellite Altimetry, (1)NOAA Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States, (2)Stockholm University, Department of meteorology, Stockholm, Sweden, (3)Insititute for Marine Research, and Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Bergen, Norway
14:25
Mapping the Changing Extent and Thickness of Arctic Multiyear Sea Ice (80211)
Sinead L Farrell, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, Jacqueline Richter-Menge, CRREL, Hanover, NH, United States, Jennifer K Hutchings, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States, Thomas Newman, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, Laurence N Connor, NOAA Laboratory for Satellite Altimetry, NCWCP, College Park, MD, United States and Christopher Jackson, NOAA Center for Satellite Applications and Reserch, SOCD, College Park, MD, United States
14:40
Two Decades of Elevation Changes of the Greenland Ice Sheet from Radar and Laser Altimetry. (Invited) (78202)
Louise Sandberg Sorensen1, Rene Forsberg2, Kirill Khvorostovsky3, Rakia Meister2 and Sebastian B. Simonsen4, (1)DTU Space, Lyngby, Denmark, (2)Technical University of Denmark - Space, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark, (3)Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center, Polar Environmental Remote Sensing, Bergen, Norway, (4)DTU Space, National Space Institute, Geodynamics, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
14:55
Taking the Firn into Account: Elevation Change of the Greenland Ice Sheet due to Surface Mass Balance and Firn Processes, 1960-2014 (75090)
Peter Kuipers Munneke1, Stefan Ligtenberg2, Brice Noel1, Ian M Howat3, Jason E Box4, Ellen Mosley-Thompson5, Joseph R McConnell6, Konrad Steffen7, Joel T Harper8, Sarah B Das9 and Michiel van den Broeke10, (1)Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands, (2)University Utrecht / IMAU, Utrecht, Netherlands, (3)OH St Univ-Earth Sciences, Columbus, OH, United States, (4)Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Copenhagen, Denmark, (5)Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, OH, United States, (6)Desert Research Institute Reno, Reno, NV, United States, (7)WSL Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Birmensdorf, Switzerland, (8)University of Montana, Missoula, MT, United States, (9)WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (10)University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States
15:10
CryoSat Estimates of Greenland Elevation Change, 2011-2014, under Varying Surface Melt Conditions. (73389)
Malcolm McMillan, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom
15:25
A Potential Operational CryoSat Follow-on Mission Concept and Design (72332)
Robert Cullen, European Space Research and Technology Centre, Earth Observation Programmes Department, Noordwijk, Netherlands
 
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