Improving estimates of ice sheet elevation change derived from AltiKa and CryoSat-2 satellite radar altimetry

• Main Author: Otosaka, Inès Natsuki
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Antarctic; Greenland; Pine Island Glacier; Thwaites Glacier; West Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica; glacier; Ice Sheet; Pine Island
• Online Access: https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/29184/

While satellite Ku-band (13.5 GHz) radar altimetry has been used since the 1990s to track changes in the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets' shape, the launch of AltiKa in 2013 provided the first opportunity to use data from higher frequency Ka-band (36 GHz) and compare it to contemporaneous Ku...