C22A:
GRACE-FO and ICESat-2: NASA’s Newest Missions for Cryospheric Science I
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Session ID#: 60419
Session Description:
NASA will launch two new missions in 2018 that enable studies of our changing cryosphere by extending the record of observations from the GRACE and ICESat missions. GRACE Follow-On will track global mass change and transport by making monthly maps of the Earth’s gravity field using intersatellite microwave ranging. It also carries a technology demonstration instrument to measure intersatellite range using laser interferomtery, which ultimately enables improved mass change estimates. ICESat-2 will measure ice sheet volume changes using a 6-beam laser altimeter with photon-counting detection to measure elevation. Together, mass change and altimetry observations yield essential observations to quantify processes and mechanisms that influence cryospheric change. This session solicits submissions that: showcase the achievements of GRACE and ICESat; demonstrate the advantages of combining these two disparate measurements; look forward to studies with GRACE-FO and ICESat-2, including initial observations; and studies that assess optimally linking past, current, and future cryosphere observations.
Primary Convener: Tom Neumann, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr., Greenbelt, United States
Convener: Felix W Landerer, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
Primary Liaison: Tom Neumann, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr., Greenbelt, United States
Chairs: Tom Neumann, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr., Greenbelt, United States and Felix W Landerer, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
OSPA Liaison: Tom Neumann, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr., Greenbelt, United States
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Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
Thorsten Markus, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, United States, Tom Neumann, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr., Greenbelt, United States, Anthony J Martino, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Nathan T Kurtz, NASA Goddard, Greenbelt, United States and ICESat-2 Science Definition Team
Ryan A Hardy, NOAA National Geodetic Survey, Silver Spring, United States, R Steven Nerem, Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences, Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, David N Wiese, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States and Alex S Gardner, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
Ronald Kwok, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and ICESat-2 Team
Benjamin Eaton Smith, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States, Alex S Gardner, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, Nicholas Holschuh, University of Washington, Earth and Space Sciences, Seattle, United States, Matthew Siegfried, Colorado School of Mines, Department of Geophysics, Golden, United States, Beata M Csatho, University at Buffalo, Department of Earth Sciences, Buffalo, NY, United States, Anton F Schenk, University at Buffalo, Department of Earth Sciences, Buffalo, United States, Susheel Adusumilli, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, Helen Amanda Fricker, University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego, United States, Kelly M Brunt, Goddard Earth Science Technology and Research, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Kaitlin Harbeck, KBR, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, Tom Neumann, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr., Greenbelt, United States and The ICESat-2 team
David N Wiese1, Alex S Gardner2 and Johan Nilsson2, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
Scott B Luthcke1, Bryant D Loomis1, Jennifer King2, H Jay Zwally3, Beata M Csatho4, Terence J Sabaka5 and Toni Schenk6, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Geodesy and Geophysics Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Emergent Space Technologies @ Goddard Space Flight Center, Laurel, MD, United States, (3)NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)University at Buffalo, Department of Earth Sciences, Buffalo, NY, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (6)University at Buffalo, Buffalo, United States
James Morison1, Ron Kwok2, Cecilia Peralta-Ferriz3, Suzanne Dickinson4, Sarah Dewey5, Roger Andersen3 and David Morison6, (1)Polar Science Center, Seattle, WA, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)University of Washington, Polar Science Center - Applied Physics Lab, Seattle, WA, United States, (4)Univ Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, (5)University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, (6)University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
H Jay Zwally, University of Maryland College Park, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College Park, MD, United States, John W Robbins, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 615 - Cryospheric Lab, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Scott B Luthcke, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Geodesy and Geophysics Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States
