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Session Proposal: Advances in Satellite Altimetry of the Polar Regions (AGU25)

C004
Advances in Satellite Altimetry of the Polar Regions

Session ID#: 252828

Session Description:
Satellite altimetry has transformed our ability to monitor the polar regions for more than three decades. Since the launches of ESA's ERS-1 (1991) and NASA's ICESat (2003), laser and radar altimeters have provided a unique, evolving record of Earth’s land ice, sea ice, and polar oceans. Today, ESA’s CryoSat-2 and NASA’s ICESat-2 continue this legacy, capturing seasonal to decadal variability with unprecedented accuracy from footprint to regional scales. These satellite records are complemented by lower-inclination missions (e.g., Saral/AltiKa, Sentinel-3A/B), airborne campaigns (e.g., IceBridge, CryoVEx), and international efforts such as Cryo2Ice. Together, they provide both continuous and high-resolution observations critical for understanding processes driving cryospheric change. This session welcomes studies from past, current, and future altimetry missions, including those that use altimetry as a primary dataset or integrate it into models to advance cryosphere science.
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • G - Geodesy
Index Terms:

0726 Ice sheets [CRYOSPHERE]
0750 Sea ice [CRYOSPHERE]
0758 Remote sensing [CRYOSPHERE]
0794 Instruments and techniques [CRYOSPHERE]
Primary Convener:  Helen Amanda Fricker, University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego, United States
Convener:  Sebastian B Simonsen, DTU Space, Department of Geodesy and Earth Observation, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
 
ICESat-2 land ice products resolve Greenland and Antarctic ice-sheet height changes on seasonal to multiyear time scales (Invited) (1854292)
Tyler C Sutterley1, Benjamin Smith2, Helen Amanda Fricker3, Laurence Padman4, Matthew Siegfried5, Taryn E Black6, Denis Felikson7, Bryony Freer8, Aimée Gibbons9, Susan Lynn Howard10, Benjamin P Jelley11, Michalea D King12, Brooke Medley13, Prof. Mathieu Morlighem14, Christine Sadlik11 and Wilson Sauthoff15, (1)Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Polar Science Center, Seattle, WA, United States, (2)Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Seattle, United States, (3)University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego, United States, (4)Earth & Space Research, Corvallis, United States, (5)Colorado School of Mines, Department of Geophysics, Golden, United States, (6)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (7)University of Texas at Austin, Austin, United States, (8)British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (9)KBR, Greenbelt, United States, (10)Earth & Space Research, Seattle, WA, United States, (11)KBR, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (12)Ohio State University, Byrd Polar & Climate Research Center, Columbus, United States, (13)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (14)Dartmouth College, Department of Earth Sciences, Hanover, NH, United States, (15)University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, United States
 
Mapping Sea Ice Topography with SWOT: Advances and Challenges (Invited) (1858991)
Sahra Kacimi, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, Sermsak Jaruwatanadilok, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States and Ron Kwok, Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Polar Science Center, Seattle, United States
 
Improving ICESat-2 Surface Mass Balance and Surface Roughness Estimates with GNSS Interferometric Reflectometry in Central Greenland (1870338)
Derek Pickell, Dartmouth College, Department of Earth Sciences, Hanover, United States, Robert L Hawley, Dartmouth College, Department of Earth Sciences, Hanover, NH, United States, Denis Felikson, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States and Jamie Good, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States
 
New Catalog of Thwaites Glacier Subglacial Lakes and Their Activity Revealed by CryoSat-2 Altimetry (1882010)
Byeong-Hoon Kim1, Choon-Ki Lee2, Ki-Weon Seo3, Won Sang Lee2 and Jeong-Won Park4, (1)Chonnam National University, Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Gwangju, South Korea, (2)Korea Polar Research Institute, Division of Glacier and Earth Sciences, Incheon, Korea, Republic of (South), (3)Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South), (4)Korea Polar Research Institute, Incheon, Korea, Republic of (South)
 
Long-term records of sea ice thickness and volume across the satellite era from 1993 onwards for both hemispheres. (Invited) (1889627)
Marion Bocquet, NORCE Research, Tromsø, NORWAY, Sara Fleury, LEGOS (CNRS/Toulouse University/CNES/IRD), Toulouse, France, Fanny Piras, Collecte Localisation Satellites, Ramonville-Saint-Agne, France, Robert Ricker, Norwegian Research Centre, Tromsø, Norway and Stefan Hendricks, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany
 
Estimation of Seasonal Mass Balance of Hofsjökull Ice Cap, Iceland, using ICESat-2 (1904353)
Hongjie Xie1, YoungHyun Koo2, Tómas Jóhannesson3, Joaquin M. C. Berlart4 and Thorsteinn Thorsteinsson3, (1)University of Texas at San Antonio, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, San Antonio, United States, (2)National Snow and Ice Data Center, CIRES, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States, (3)Icelandic Meteorological Office, Reykjavik, Iceland, (4)National Land Survey of Iceland, Akranes, Iceland
 
Monitoring Ice Sheet Surface Melt and Snow Grain Growth with the CRISTAL AMR-CR Radiometer (1962741)
Alamgir Hossan1, Andreas Colliander1, Federica Polverari1, Mary G Morris1, Zhimeng Zhang2, Shannon T. Brown1 and Sahra Kacimi1, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (2)California Institute of Technology, Department of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, United States
 
The new capability of ICESat-2 Release 7 ATL12, Release 4 ATL19, and Release 2 ATL23 to yield Dynamic Ocean Topography (DOT) in Polar Oceans for all ice concentrations (1967868)
James Morison, Polar Science Center, Seattle, WA, United States, Suzanne Dickinson, Univ Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, John W Robbins, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 615 - Cryospheric Lab, Greenbelt, MD, United States and David Hancock, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, United States
 
Harnessing Radar-Laser Satellite Altimetry Bias to Quantify Firn Processes in Antarctica (1984915)
Marianna Marquardt, Colorado School of Mines, Geophysics, Golden, United States, Matthew Siegfried, Colorado School of Mines, Department of Geophysics, Golden, United States, Brooke Medley, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and C Max Stevens, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
 
Mass Balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet between 1994 and 2020 from Laser Altimetry (1988471)
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
 
Full-Band Synthesis from Sparse Subbands for High-Resolution Snow Thickness and SWE Estimation Using UWB Radars Under Bandwidth Constraints (1990646)
Sara Neshani1,2, Shriniwas Kolpuke1, Syed Rizvi1, Mishal Thapa3, Drew Taylor4 and Sivaprasad Gogineni4, (1)University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States, (2)Remote Sensing Center, Tuscaloosa, United States, (3)University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, United States, (4)Remote Sensing Center, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, United States
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