| | 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 brochure, 2010, ESA
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).
Further reading
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)
CryoSat-2: a satellite on an icy mission
(EADS-Astrium, March 2007)
Belgische poolexpeditie voor ESA'-satellite
(Kennislink NL, March 2007)
Arctic trek to map climate impacts
(BBC News, Feb 2007)
UK space experts SciSys reprise software role for critical Climate Change mission
(Scisys, Nov 2006)
Alcatel Alenia to build radar altimeter for CryoSat-2
(EFY Times, Oct 2006)
References
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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.
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