Sensitivity of CryoSat-2 Arctic sea-ice freeboard and thickness on radar-waveform interpretation

In the context of quantifying Arctic ice-volume decrease at global scale, the CryoSat-2 satellite was launched in 2010 and is equipped with the <i>K</i><sub>u</sub> band synthetic aperture radar altimeter SIRAL (Synthetic Aperture Interferometric Radar Altimeter), which we us...

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Main Authors: R. Ricker, S. Hendricks, V. Helm, H. Skourup, M. Davidson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2014-08-01
Series:The Cryosphere
Online Access:http://www.the-cryosphere.net/8/1607/2014/tc-8-1607-2014.pdf