The Copernicus Polar Ice and Snow Topography Altimeter (CRISTAL) high-priority candidate mission
The Copernicus Polar Ice and Snow Topography Altimeter (CRISTAL) mission is one of six high-priority candidate missions (HPCMs) under consideration by the European Commission to enlarge the Copernicus Space Component. Together, the high-priority candidate missions fill gaps in the measurement capabi...
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ftawi:oai:epic.awi.de:58073 2023-11-12T04:27:20+01:00 The Copernicus Polar Ice and Snow Topography Altimeter (CRISTAL) high-priority candidate mission Kern, Michael Cullen, Robert Berruti, Bruno Bouffard, Jerome Casal, Tania Drinkwater, Mark R Gabriele, Antonio Lecuyot, Arnaud Ludwig, Michael Midthassel, Rolv Traver, Ignacio Navas Parrinello, Tommaso Ressler, Gerhard Andersson, Erik Martin-Puig, Cristina Andersen, Ole Bartsch, Annett Farrell, Sinead Fleury, Sara Gascoin, Simon Guillot, Amandine Humbert, Angelika Rinne, Eero Shepherd, Andrew van den Broeke, Michiel R Yackel, John 2020-07-16 application/pdf https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/58073/ https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/58073/1/tc-14-2235-2020.pdf https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2235-2020 https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.e5bbbb8c-f813-4ee5-82ac-bc34308fcd1b unknown Copernicus Publications https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/58073/1/tc-14-2235-2020.pdf Kern, M. , Cullen, R. , Berruti, B. , Bouffard, J. , Casal, T. , Drinkwater, M. R. , Gabriele, A. , Lecuyot, A. , Ludwig, M. , Midthassel, R. , Traver, I. N. , Parrinello, T. , Ressler, G. , Andersson, E. , Martin-Puig, C. , Andersen, O. , Bartsch, A. , Farrell, S. , Fleury, S. , Gascoin, S. , Guillot, A. , Humbert, A. orcid:0000-0002-0244-8760 , Rinne, E. , Shepherd, A. , van den Broeke, M. R. and Yackel, J. (2020) The Copernicus Polar Ice and Snow Topography Altimeter (CRISTAL) high-priority candidate mission , The Cryosphere, 14 (7), pp. 2235-2251 . doi:10.5194/tc-14-2235-2020 <https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2235-2020> , hdl:10013/epic.e5bbbb8c-f813-4ee5-82ac-bc34308fcd1b EPIC3The Cryosphere, Copernicus Publications, 14(7), pp. 2235-2251, ISSN: 1994-0416 Article isiRev 2020 ftawi https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2235-2020 2023-10-22T23:23:01Z The Copernicus Polar Ice and Snow Topography Altimeter (CRISTAL) mission is one of six high-priority candidate missions (HPCMs) under consideration by the European Commission to enlarge the Copernicus Space Component. Together, the high-priority candidate missions fill gaps in the measurement capability of the existing Copernicus Space Component to address emerging and urgent user requirements in relation to monitoring anthropogenic CO2 emissions, polar environments, and land surfaces. The ambition is to enlarge the Copernicus Space Component with the high-priority candidate missions in the mid-2020s to provide enhanced continuity of services in synergy with the next generation of the existing Copernicus Sentinel missions. CRISTAL will carry a dual-frequency synthetic-aperture radar altimeter as its primary payload for measuring surface height and a passive microwave radiometer to support atmospheric corrections and surface-type classification. The altimeter will have interferometric capabilities at Kuband for improved ground resolution and a second (noninterferometric) Ka-band frequency to provide information on snow layer properties. This paper outlines the user consultations that have supported expansion of the Copernicus Space Component to include the high-priority candidate missions, describes the primary and secondary objectives of the CRISTAL mission, identifies the key contributions the CRISTAL mission will make, and presents a concept-as far as it is already defined-for the mission payload. Article in Journal/Newspaper The Cryosphere Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar- and Marine Research (AWI): ePIC (electronic Publication Information Center) The Cryosphere 14 7 2235 2251 |
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The Copernicus Polar Ice and Snow Topography Altimeter (CRISTAL) mission is one of six high-priority candidate missions (HPCMs) under consideration by the European Commission to enlarge the Copernicus Space Component. Together, the high-priority candidate missions fill gaps in the measurement capability of the existing Copernicus Space Component to address emerging and urgent user requirements in relation to monitoring anthropogenic CO2 emissions, polar environments, and land surfaces. The ambition is to enlarge the Copernicus Space Component with the high-priority candidate missions in the mid-2020s to provide enhanced continuity of services in synergy with the next generation of the existing Copernicus Sentinel missions. CRISTAL will carry a dual-frequency synthetic-aperture radar altimeter as its primary payload for measuring surface height and a passive microwave radiometer to support atmospheric corrections and surface-type classification. The altimeter will have interferometric capabilities at Kuband for improved ground resolution and a second (noninterferometric) Ka-band frequency to provide information on snow layer properties. This paper outlines the user consultations that have supported expansion of the Copernicus Space Component to include the high-priority candidate missions, describes the primary and secondary objectives of the CRISTAL mission, identifies the key contributions the CRISTAL mission will make, and presents a concept-as far as it is already defined-for the mission payload. |
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Kern, Michael Cullen, Robert Berruti, Bruno Bouffard, Jerome Casal, Tania Drinkwater, Mark R Gabriele, Antonio Lecuyot, Arnaud Ludwig, Michael Midthassel, Rolv Traver, Ignacio Navas Parrinello, Tommaso Ressler, Gerhard Andersson, Erik Martin-Puig, Cristina Andersen, Ole Bartsch, Annett Farrell, Sinead Fleury, Sara Gascoin, Simon Guillot, Amandine Humbert, Angelika Rinne, Eero Shepherd, Andrew van den Broeke, Michiel R Yackel, John |
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Kern, Michael Cullen, Robert Berruti, Bruno Bouffard, Jerome Casal, Tania Drinkwater, Mark R Gabriele, Antonio Lecuyot, Arnaud Ludwig, Michael Midthassel, Rolv Traver, Ignacio Navas Parrinello, Tommaso Ressler, Gerhard Andersson, Erik Martin-Puig, Cristina Andersen, Ole Bartsch, Annett Farrell, Sinead Fleury, Sara Gascoin, Simon Guillot, Amandine Humbert, Angelika Rinne, Eero Shepherd, Andrew van den Broeke, Michiel R Yackel, John The Copernicus Polar Ice and Snow Topography Altimeter (CRISTAL) high-priority candidate mission |
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Kern, Michael Cullen, Robert Berruti, Bruno Bouffard, Jerome Casal, Tania Drinkwater, Mark R Gabriele, Antonio Lecuyot, Arnaud Ludwig, Michael Midthassel, Rolv Traver, Ignacio Navas Parrinello, Tommaso Ressler, Gerhard Andersson, Erik Martin-Puig, Cristina Andersen, Ole Bartsch, Annett Farrell, Sinead Fleury, Sara Gascoin, Simon Guillot, Amandine Humbert, Angelika Rinne, Eero Shepherd, Andrew van den Broeke, Michiel R Yackel, John |
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The Copernicus Polar Ice and Snow Topography Altimeter (CRISTAL) high-priority candidate mission |
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The Copernicus Polar Ice and Snow Topography Altimeter (CRISTAL) high-priority candidate mission |
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The Copernicus Polar Ice and Snow Topography Altimeter (CRISTAL) high-priority candidate mission |
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The Copernicus Polar Ice and Snow Topography Altimeter (CRISTAL) high-priority candidate mission |
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The Copernicus Polar Ice and Snow Topography Altimeter (CRISTAL) high-priority candidate mission |
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copernicus polar ice and snow topography altimeter (cristal) high-priority candidate mission |
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https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/58073/1/tc-14-2235-2020.pdf Kern, M. , Cullen, R. , Berruti, B. , Bouffard, J. , Casal, T. , Drinkwater, M. R. , Gabriele, A. , Lecuyot, A. , Ludwig, M. , Midthassel, R. , Traver, I. N. , Parrinello, T. , Ressler, G. , Andersson, E. , Martin-Puig, C. , Andersen, O. , Bartsch, A. , Farrell, S. , Fleury, S. , Gascoin, S. , Guillot, A. , Humbert, A. orcid:0000-0002-0244-8760 , Rinne, E. , Shepherd, A. , van den Broeke, M. R. and Yackel, J. (2020) The Copernicus Polar Ice and Snow Topography Altimeter (CRISTAL) high-priority candidate mission , The Cryosphere, 14 (7), pp. 2235-2251 . doi:10.5194/tc-14-2235-2020 <https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2235-2020> , hdl:10013/epic.e5bbbb8c-f813-4ee5-82ac-bc34308fcd1b |
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