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    ESA > Our Activities > Observing the Earth > The Living Planet Programme > Earth Explorers > CryoSat-2

    CryoSat publications

    Wingham, D.J., Johannessen, O., Lemke, P., Tscherning, C., Picardi, G., Sandven, S., Vaughan, D., Laxon, S. and R. Scharroo, 1998, CryoSat: Response to the ESA Earth Explorer Opportunity Mission AO, UCL.

    Wingham D., 1999, The First of the European Space Agency's Opportunity Missions: CryoSat, Earth Observation Quarterly, 63, ESA.

    Drinkwater, M.R., Francis R., Ratier G. and Wingham D., The European Space Agency's Earth Explorer Mission CryoSat: Measuring Variability in the Cryosphere. Annals of Glaciology, vol.39, 313-320,2004.

    CryoSat Science Report, 2003, ESA

    Wingham D. J., Francis C.R., Baker S., Bouzinac C., Cullen R., de Chateau-Thierry P., Laxon S.W., Mallow U., Mavrocordatos C., Phalippou L., Ratier G., Rey L., Rostan F., Viau P., and Wallis D., CryoSat: A Mission to Determine the Fluctuations in Earth's Land and Marine Ice Fields. Advances in Space Research 37 (2006) 841-871.

    Official project documentation

    Cryosat Calibration and Validation Concept, 2001, ESA/UCL

    CryoSat Mission and Data Description, 2007, ESA

    CryoSat Data Processing Concept, 2001, ESA/UCL

    CryoSat Science and Mission Requirements, 1999, ESA/UCL

    CryoSat Ground Segment Instrument Processing Facility Level 1b, 2007

    CryoSat Ground Segment Instrument Processing Facility Level 2, 2008

    ESA study reports

    ARCGICE: Combination of Spaceborne, Airborne and In-Situ Gravity Measurements in Support of Arctic Sea-Ice Thickness Mapping, (2007). ESA Contract 18753/05/NL/CB (.pdf 20.3 MB).

    Synergistic Use of Remote Sensing in Coupled Ocean-Ice Model Data Assimilation, (2005). ESA Contract 17334/03/NL/FF. (.pdf, 24 MB).

    Study of the Impact and Relevance of ESA Missions in Operational Oceanography and Climate Research and Monitoring, (2003). ESA Contract 14992/01/NL/MM. (.pdf, 11.7 MB).

    Synergistic Use of Remote Sensing Data in Ice Sheet Snow Accumulation and Topographic Change Estimates, (2003). ESA Contract 16556/02/NL/GS. (.pdf, 34.5 MB).

    The Qualification of the Importance of the Sea Ice Budget in the Climate System, (2001). ESA Contract 13971/00/NL/DC. (.pdf, 19 MB).


    References

    Gates, W.L. et al., 1996, Climate Models Evaluation, in Climate Change 1995, The science of climate change, Cambridge University Press.

    Jensen, J. R. and R. K. Raney, 1996, Multi-Mission Radar Altimeter: Concept and Performance, Proceedings IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium IGARSS'96, Lincoln, Nebraska, pp 2279-2281.

    Jensen J.R. and R. K. Raney, 1998, Delay Doppler radar altimeter: better measurement precision, in Proceedings IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium IGARSS'98. Seattle, WA: IEEE, pp. 2011-2013.

    Kreyscher, M., M. Harder, P. Lemke, and G. M. Flato, 2000, Results of the Sea Ice Model Intercomparison Project: Evaluation of sea ice rheology schemes for use in climate simulations, J. Geophys. Res. 105, 11299-11320.

    Laxon, S.W., 1994. Sea ice altimeter processing scheme at the EODC, Int. J. Rem. Sens., 15, (4), 915-924.

    Laxon S., Peacock N. & Smith D., High interannual variability of sea-ice thickness in the Arctic Region, Nature, doi10.1038/nature02050.

    Manabe, S., R.J. Stouffer, M.J. Spelman and K. Bryan, 1991, Transient Responses of a Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Model to Gradual Changes of Atmospheric CO2. Part 1: Annual Mean Response, Journal of Climate, 4, 785-818.

    Raney R.K., 1998, The delay Doppler radar altimeter, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 36, pp. 1578-1588.

    Wingham, D.J., A.J. Ridout, R. Scharroo, R.J. Arthern and C.K. Shum, 1998, Antarctic Elevation Change 1992 to 1996, Science, 282, 456 - 458

    Wingham, D.J., L. Phalippou, C. Mavrocordatos, and D. Wallis, The Mean Echo And Echo Cross-Product From a Beamforming Interferometric Altimeter and Their Application to Elevation Measurements,IEEE Trans. Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 42, No. 10, 2305-2323, 2004.

    CryoSat in the news

    CryoSat mission delivers first sea-ice map
    (BBC, June 2011)

    CryoSat data reveals Arctic ocean circulation
    (PlanetEarth online, December 2010)

    CryoSat ice mission returns first science
    (BBC News, December 2010)

    Measuring the melting Arctic sea ice
    (Miller-McCune, July 2010)

    High above the Earth, satellites track melting ice
    (Yale Environment 360, July 2010)

    CryoSat-2 focuses on ice target
    (BBC News, June 2010)

    Europe's CryoSat-2 'ice explorer' ready for lift-off
    (BBC News, April 2010)

    CryoSat: more important than ever
    (ESA Bulletin 141, February 2010)

    A look around the 'ice explorer'
    (BBC News, September 2009)

    Ice mission returns for second go
    (BBC News, September 2009)

    SIRAL, a new generation of space altimeter
    (Thales Alenia Space, September 2009)

    Arctic ice thickness 'plummets'
    (BBC News, October 2008)

    Explorers' quest for key ice data
    (BBC News, October 2007)

    Last update: 21 June 2011

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