A reassessment of the growth of the Greenland ice sheet using Seasat and Geosat altimeter data referenced to the same Earth geoid

Author

Davis, Curt H.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Eng., Missouri Univ., Kansas City, MO, USA

Volume

3

fYear

34881

fDate

10-14 Jul1995

Firstpage

1756

Abstract

Presents an analysis of Geosat-ERM and Seasat data using GEM-T2 orbits for both datasets. First, the 35-month Geosat-ERM dataset is analyzed and the results show that no significant trend in ice-sheet growth can be inferred. Next the author analyzed Geosat ERM-Seasat data spanning the time period from 1978-1987 and found a 0.07 m/yr growth rate. This rate is nearly 3 times smaller than previously reported results. The results eliminate some of the uncertainty in the previous work and are more consistent with reported in situ measurements of ice-sheet growth

Keywords

glaciology; hydrological techniques; remote sensing by radar; snow; spaceborne radar; AD 1978 to 1987; GEM-T2; Geosat; Greenland ice sheet; SAR; Seasat; glaciology; growth rate reassessment; hydrology; ice-sheet growth; measurement technique; polar ice sheet; radar altimetry method; radar remote sensing; remote sensing; snow cover accumulation; snowcover; snowpack; spaceborne radar; Cities and towns; Data analysis; Earth; Extraterrestrial measurements; Ice; Ocean temperature; Orbits; Satellites; Sea measurements; Sea surface;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 1995. IGARSS '95. 'Quantitative Remote Sensing for Science and Applications', International

Conference_Location

Firenze

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2567-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.1995.524017

Filename

524017