Using the interferometric capabilities of the ESA CryoSat-2 mission to improve the accuracy of sea ice freeboard retrievals

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 529-536

  Armitage, Thomas W K ^a   Davidson, Malcolm W J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

CryoSat 2; Interferometry; Radar altimetry; Sea ice

Indexed keywords

CRYOSAT-2; ICE THICKNESS; ORBIT DETERMINATION; POWER WAVEFORMS; RADAR ALTIMETERS; RADAR ALTIMETRY; RADAR ECHOES; SPECULAR SCATTERING;

INTERFEROMETRY; RADAR; SCATTERING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

SEA ICE;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CRYOSAT-2; ECHO SOUNDER; ERROR ANALYSIS; ICE THICKNESS; NADIR; RADAR ALTIMETRY; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; SEA ICE; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EID: 84890438823     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2242082     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. D. J. Wingham, A. J. Ridout, R. Scharroo, R. J. Arthern, and C. K. Shum, "Antarctic elevation change from 1992 to 1996, " Science, vol. 282, no. 5388, pp. 456-458, Oct. 1998. (Pubitemid 28483668)
2. A. Shepherd and D. Wingham, "Recent sea-level contributions of the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets, " Science, vol. 315, no. 5818, pp. 1529-1532, Mar. 2007. (Pubitemid 46449460)
3. H. J. Zwally, M. B. Giovinetto, J. Li, H. G. Cornejo, M. A. Beckley, A. C. Brenner, J. L. Saba, and D. Yi, "Mass changes of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets and ice shelves and contributions to sea-level rise: 1992-2002, " J. Glaciol., vol. 51, no. 175, pp. 509-527, Dec. 2005. (Pubitemid 43329191)
4. S. Laxon, N. Peacock, and D. Smith, "High interannual variability of sea ice thickness in the Arctic region, " Nature, vol. 425, no. 6961, pp. 947-950, 2003. (Pubitemid 37376923)
5. S. L. Farrell, S. W. Laxon, D. C. McAdoo, D. Yi, and H. J. Zwally, "Five years of Arctic sea ice freeboard measurements from the Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite, " J. Geophys. Res., vol. 114, no. C4, Apr. 2009.
6. N. R. Peacock and S. W. Laxon, "Sea surface height determination in the Arctic ocean from ERS altimetry, " J. Geophys. Res., vol. 109, no. C7, pp. C07001-1-C07001-14, 2004.
7. R. Kwok, G. F. Cunningham, M. Wensnahan, I. Rigor, H. J. Zwally, and D. Yi, "Thinning and volume loss of the Arctic ocean sea ice cover: 2003-2008, " J. Geophys. Res., vol. 114, Jul. 2009.
8. B. E. Shutz, H. J. Zwally, C. A. Shuman, D. Hancock, and J. P. DiMarzio, "Overview of the ICESat mission, " J. Geophys. Res., vol. 32, no. 21, Nov. 2005.
9. D. J. Wingham, C. R. Francis, S. Baker, C. Bouzinac, D. Brockley, R. Cullen, P. de Chateau-Thierry, S. W. Laxon, U. Mallow, C. Mavrocordatos, L. Phalippou, G. Ratier, L. Rey, F. Rostan, P. Viau, and D. W. Wallis, "CryoSat: A mission to determine the fluctuations in the Earth's land and marine ice fields, " Adv. Space Res., vol. 37, no. 4, pp. 841-871, 2006. (Pubitemid 44316573)
10. S. Laxon, "Sea ice altimeter processing scheme at the EODC, " Int. J. Remote Sens., vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 915-924, 1994. (Pubitemid 24405226)
11. R. Kwok and J. Morrison, "Dynamic topography of the ice-covered Arctic ocean from ICESat, " J. Geophys. Res., vol. 38, no. 2, Jan. 2011.
12. S. L. Farrell, D. C. McAdoo, S. W. Laxon, H. J. Zwally, D. Li, A. Ridout, and K. Giles, "Mean dynamic topography of the Arctic ocean, " Geophys. Res. Lett., vol. 39, no. 1, Jan. 2012.
13. M. R. Drinkwater, "Ku band airborne radar altimeter observations of marginal sea ice during the 1984 marginal ice zone experiment, " J. Geophys. Res., vol. 96, no. C3, pp. 4555-4572, Dec. 1991.
14. F. M. Fetterer, M. R. Drinkwater, K. C. Jezek, S. W. C. Laxon, R. G. Onstott, and L.M. H. Ulander, "Sea Ice Altimetry, " in Microwave Remote Sensing of Sea Ice. Washington, DC, USA: AGU, 1992, ch. 7.
15. L. N. Connor, S. W. Laxon, A. L. Ridout, W. B. Krabill, and D. C. McAdoo, "Comparison of Envisat radar and airborne laser altimeter measurements over Arctic sea ice, " Remote Sens. Environ., vol. 113, no. 3, pp. 563-570, Mar. 2009.
16. R. K. Raney, "The delay/Doppler radar altimeter, " IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., vol. 36, no. 5, pp. 1578-1588, Sep. 1998.
17. D. J. Wingham, L. Philappou, C. Mavrocordatos, and D. Wallis, "The mean echo and echo cross product from a beamforming interferometric altimeter and their application to elevation measurement, " IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., vol. 42, no. 10, pp. 2304-2323, Oct. 2004.
18. J. R. Jensen, "Angle measurement with a phase monopulse radar altimeter, " IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag., vol. 47, no. 4, pp. 715-724, Apr. 1999.
19. A. C. Brenner, R. A. Bindschadler, R. H. Thomas, and H. J. Zwally, "Slope-induced errors in radar altimetry over continental ice sheets, " J. Geophys. Res., vol. 88, no. C3, pp. 1617-1623, Jan. 1983.
20. CryoSat Product Handbook, ESA, London, France, Mar. 2011.
21. N. Galin, D. J. Wingham, R. Cullen, M. Fornari, W. H. F. Smith, and S. Abdalla, "Calibration of the CryoSat-2 interferometer and measurement of the across-track ocean slope, " IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., vol. 51, no. 1, pp. 57-72, Jan. 2013.