Investigation of the evolution of altimeter-derived sea ice thickness estimates through the summer melt season using a Lagrangian ice motion tracking approach

J Scott Stewart, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, United States, Walter Meier, National Snow and Ice Data Center, CIRES, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States, Mark A Tschudi, University of Colorado at Boulder, CCAR, Boulder, CO, United States and Nathan T Kurtz, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Cryospheric Science Lab, Greenbelt, United States