CryoSat Ice Baseline-D Validation and Evolutions

• Main Authors: Meloni, Marco, Bouffard, Jerome, Parrinello, Tommaso, Dawson, Geoffrey, Garnier, Florent, Helm, Veit, Bella, Alessandro, Hendricks, Stefan, Ricker, Robert, Webb, Erica, Wright, Ben, Nielsen, Karina, Lee, Sanggyun, Passaro, Marcello, Scagliola, Michele, Bjerregaard Simonsen, Sebastian, Sandberg Sørensen, Louise, Brockley, David, Baker, Steven, Fleury, Sara, Bamber, Jonathan, Maestri, Luca, Skourup, Henriette, Forsberg, René, Mizzi, Loretta
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Austfonna; Ice cap; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2019-250; https://www.the-cryosphere-discuss.net/tc-2019-250/

The ESA Earth Explorer CryoSat-2 was launched on 8 April 2010 to monitor the precise changes in the thickness of terrestrial ice sheets and marine floating ice. For that, CryoSat orbits the planet at an altitude of around 720 km with a retrograde orbit inclination of 92° and a <q>quasi</q&g...