Sea-Ice Freeboard Retrieval Using Digital Photon-Counting Laser Altimetry

• Main Authors: Farrell, Sinead L., Connor, Laurence N., Walsh, Kaitlin M., Brunt, Kelly M., Ruth, Julia M., Kuhn, John M.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Geosciences (General); Earth Resources and Remote Sensing; Arctic; Greenland; Mabel; Greenland Sea; ice pack; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2060/20150004436

Airborne and spaceborne altimeters provide measurements of sea-ice elevation, from which sea-ice freeboard and thickness may be derived. Observations of the Arctic ice pack by satellite altimeters indicate a significant decline in ice thickness, and volume, over the last decade. NASA's Ice, Clo...