CryoSat long-term ocean data analysis and validation: final words on GOP Baseline-C ...

• Main Authors: Naeije, Marc, Schrama, Ernst, Di Bella, Alessandro
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: CNES 2023
• Subjects: Greenland; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.24400/527896/a03-2023.3771; https://ostst.aviso.altimetry.fr/programs/abstracts-details.html?tx_ausyclsseminar_pi2[objAbstracte]=3771&cHash=X

The ESA’s Earth Explorer CryoSat mission is primarily dedicated to precise measurement of the changes in the thickness of marine ice floating on the polar oceans and variations in the thickness of the vast ice sheets that overlie Greenland and Antarctica. With the effects of a fast-changing climate becoming apparent, particularly in polar regions, it is increasingly important to understand exactly how Earth’s ice fields are responding. Going beyond its ice-monitoring objective, CryoSat is also a valuable source of observations for measuring dramatic impacts of climate change over the ocean. The satellite’s radar altimeter measures high-resolution geophysical parameters from open ocean to coast. The CryoSat data are therefore operationally processed and analysed by ESA both over the ocean and ice surfaces with two independent processing chains following two different processing baselines. To enable their full scientific and operational exploitation, the CryoSat ocean products continuously evolve and need to ...