Hui Gao¹, Beata M Csatho², Anton F Schenk¹, Michael J Croteau³, Surendra Adhikari⁴, Ivan Parmuzin¹, Nicole Schlegel⁵, Max Brils⁶, Michiel R van den Broeke⁷, Denis Felikson⁸, Bryant D Loomis⁹, Brooke Medley³, Brice Noel¹⁰, Sophie Nowicki¹ and Kristin Poinar¹¹, (1)University at Buffalo, Department of Earth Sciences, Buffalo, United States, (2)University at Buffalo, Department of Earth Sciences, Buffalo, NY, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)California Institute of Technology, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (5)NOAA, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, United States, (6)Northumbria University, Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, United Kingdom, (7)Utrecht University, Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands, (8)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Cryospheric Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, United States, (9)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Geodesy and Geophysics Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (10)University of Liège, Laboratoire de Climatologie et Topoclimatologie, Liège, Belgium, (11)University at Buffalo, Department of Earth Science, Buffalo, United States