UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH (GB)
The purpose of this project is to quantify the volume, mass change and contribution to sea level change of mountain glaciers using dataset from the CryoSat satellite radar altimeter. Here we propose to generate mountain glacier elevation and elevation change by (i) evaluating the ability of the current CryoSat products, (ii) investigating and implementing processing strategies such as FBR filtering, novel retracking, swath processing, in order to improve the current CryoSat products, (iii) validating elevations and quantifying their errors. The resulting elevation and elevation change will be used to generate estimates of glacier volume and mass change and determine mountain glacier’s contribution to sea level change during the life period of CryoSat. We will integrate our results with existing studies of glaciers change to build a spatial and temporal picture of changes affecting mountain glaciers that will be advertise via scientific presentation and submission as journals articles.
Our world is losing ice at record rate
Glaciers All Over the World Are Shrinking Fast—See for Yourself
Glacier mass loss between 2010 and 2020 dominated by atmospheric forcing
Geophysical Research Letters (2023)
Measuring glacier mass changes from space—a review
Reports on Progress in Physics (2023)
Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface (2021)
Changes in elevation and mass of Arctic glaciers and ice caps, 2010–2017
Remote Sensing of Environment (2021)
The Cryosphere (2021)
The Cryosphere (2021)
Multi surface retracker for swath processing of interferometric radar altimetry
IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters (2019)
International Journal of Remote Sensing (2019)
Accelerating glacier mass loss on Franz Josef Land, Russian Arctic
Remote Sensing of Environment (2018)
Remote sensing of environment (2018)
Geophysical Research Letters (2016)