Articles | Volume 12, issue 7
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-2437-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-2437-2018
Research article
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25 Jul 2018
Research article |  | 25 Jul 2018

Empirical parametrization of Envisat freeboard retrieval of Arctic and Antarctic sea ice based on CryoSat-2: progress in the ESA Climate Change Initiative

Stephan Paul, Stefan Hendricks, Robert Ricker, Stefan Kern, and Eero Rinne

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During ESA's second phase of the Sea Ice Climate Change Initiative (SICCI-2), we developed a novel approach to creating a consistent freeboard data set from Envisat and CryoSat-2. We used consistent procedures that are directly related to the sensors' waveform-echo parameters, instead of applying corrections as a post-processing step. This data set is to our knowledge the first of its kind providing consistent freeboard for the Arctic as well as the Antarctic.