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Articles | Volume 10, issue 5
Articles | Volume 10, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-2329-2016
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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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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.
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