ESTIMATING SURFACE ELEVATION BIASES FROM SUBSURFACE SCATTERED PHOTONS FOR LASER ALTIMETERS

• Main Author: Greeley, Adam Paul
• Other Authors: Carton, James, Digital Repository at the University of Maryland, University of Maryland (College Park, Md.), Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Remote sensing; cryosphere; laser altimetry; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Arctic; Greenland; Mabel; The Antarctic; West Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica; Climate change; glacier; Ice Sheet; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1903/20770; https://doi.org/10.13016/M29W0927D

Three decades of satellite observations have revealed rapid changes in Earth’s cryosphere associated with anthropogenic climate change, including decreased extent and volume of Arctic sea ice, mass loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet, mass loss in West Antarctica and the Antarctic Peninsula, and incre...