On retrieving sea ice freeboard from ICESat laser altimeter

Khvorostovsky, Kirill; Rampal, Pierre

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-2329-2016

Articles | Volume 10, issue 5

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-2329-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-2329-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 10, issue 5

Research article

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10 Oct 2016

Research article |

| 10 Oct 2016

On retrieving sea ice freeboard from ICESat laser altimeter

Kirill Khvorostovsky and Pierre Rampal

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Final revised paper (published on 10 Oct 2016)
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RC1: 'Review of "On retrieving sea ice freeboard from ICESat laser altimeter" by Khvorostovsky and Rampal', Stefan Kern, 09 May 2016
RC2: '60', Anonymous Referee #2, 22 Jun 2016
AC1: 'Response to the reviewers', Kirill Khvorostovsky, 21 Jul 2016

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Kirill Khvorostovsky on behalf of the Authors (22 Jul 2016) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (01 Aug 2016) by Dirk Notz

RR by Stefan Kern (12 Aug 2016)

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (Editor review) (30 Aug 2016) by Dirk Notz

AR by Kirill Khvorostovsky on behalf of the Authors (06 Sep 2016) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (14 Sep 2016) by Dirk Notz

AR by Kirill Khvorostovsky on behalf of the Authors (20 Sep 2016)

Short summary

We analyse two methods of freeboard retrieval from ICESat satellite data that were used to derive the two widely used Arctic sea ice thickness products. We show that although different factors result in significant local differences between freeboards, they roughly compensate each other with respect to overall freeboard estimation. Thus the difference found between the sea ice thickness datasets should be attributed to different parameters used in the freeboard-to-thickness conversion.