CryoSat-2 delivers monthly and inter-annual surface elevation change for Arctic ice caps

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: Gray, L., Burgess, D., Copland, L., Demuth, M. N., Dunse, T., Langley, K., Schuler, T. V.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Arctic; Austfonna; Baffin Island; Barnes Ice Cap; Canada; Devon Ice Cap; Svalbard; Baffin; Ice cap
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-9-1895-2015; https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/9/1895/2015/

We show that the CryoSat-2 radar altimeter can provide useful estimates of surface elevation change on a variety of Arctic ice caps, on both monthly and yearly timescales. Changing conditions, however, can lead to a varying bias between the elevation estimated from the radar altimeter and the physic...