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CryoSat+ Mountain Glaciers

UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH (GB)

Summary

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.

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Scientific Papers

Information

Website
http://www.cryosat-mtg.org/
Domain
Science
Prime contractor
UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH (GB)
Subcontractors
  • EARTHWAVE Ltd (GB)
  • ENVEO – ENVIRONMENTAL EARTH OBSERVATION GMBH (AT)
  • ISARDSAT LTD. (GB)
  • MULLARD SPACE SCIENCE LABORATORY-UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON (GB)