Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets

Dear Colleagues,

The Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets are undergoing rapid change, currently contributing about one third—with increasing tendencies—to global mean sea-level rise [1]. Over the past three decades, satellite remote sensing has revolutionized our view of ice sheet behavior, enabling for example the precise quantification of the hot spots of ice loss, while providing new insights into the related controlling processes. Today, a suite of Earth observation data is available, targeting various characteristics of the ice sheets’ state and enabling the study of their interaction with the atmosphere, ocean, and solid Earth.

For this Special Issue, we welcome the submission of manuscripts addressing all aspects of the satellite remote sensing of ice sheets, ranging from mission design and advancing retrieval algorithms to the application of the data for understanding the impact of climate change on the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets. We particularly invite contributions SAR and laser altimetry, SAR imagery, gravimetry, as well as optical and hyperspectral observations for an improved understanding of the evolution of ice sheets. We encourage submissions involving satellite data of the Sentinel missions, TerraSAR-X/TanDEM-X, CryoSat-2, ICESat-1/2, GRACE/GRACE Follow On, as well as data combination approaches and the generation of historic time series, but we are open to related topics, such as results from airborne campaigns and Cal/Val activities.

We are looking forward to receiving manuscripts describing your new work.

Dr. Ingo Sasgen
Dr. Dana Floricioiu
Dr. Sebastian Bjerregaard Simonsen
Dr. Mal McMillan
Guest Editors

Reference

WCRP Global Sea Level Budget Group. Global sea-level budget 1993–present. Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 2018, 10, 1551-1590. https://www.earth-syst-sci-data.net/10/1551/2018/essd-10-1551-2018.pdf

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