Nishant Tiwari, Pennsylvania State University, Department of Geography, Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, University Park, United States, Shujie Wang, Pennsylvania State University, Geography, Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, ICDS, University Park, PA, United States, Kenneth C. Jezek, The Ohio State University, Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, Columbus, United States, Marco Brogioni, Institute of Applied Physics “Nello Carrara”, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy, Joel T Johnson, The Ohio State University, ElectroScience Laboratory, Columbus, United States, Yiwen Zhou, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland, Lars Kaleschke, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany and Sophie Anderson, University of Colorado Boulder, Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences, Boulder, United States