Sentinel-3 Delay-Doppler altimetry over Antarctica

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: McMillan, Malcolm, Muir, Alan, Shepherd, Andrew, Escolà, Roger, Roca, Mònica, Aublanc, Jérémie, Thibaut, Pierre, Restano, Marco, Ambrozio, Américo, Benveniste, Jérôme
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; The Sentinel; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-709-2019; https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/13/709/2019/

The launch of Sentinel-3A in February 2016 represented the beginning of a new long-term series of operational satellite radar altimeters, which will provide Delay-Doppler altimetry measurements over ice sheets for decades to come. Given the potential benefits that these satellites can offer to a ran...