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Research article
| 
16 Jul 2020
Research article |
| 16 Jul 2020
| 16 Jul 2020
The Copernicus Polar Ice and Snow Topography Altimeter (CRISTAL) high-priority candidate mission
Michael Kern
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
European Space Agency (ESA-ESTEC), Keplerlaan 1, 2201 AZ Noordwijk,
the Netherlands
Robert Cullen
European Space Agency (ESA-ESTEC), Keplerlaan 1, 2201 AZ Noordwijk,
the Netherlands
Bruno Berruti
European Space Agency (ESA-ESTEC), Keplerlaan 1, 2201 AZ Noordwijk,
the Netherlands
Jerome Bouffard
European Space Agency (ESA-ESRIN), Via Galileo Galilei, Casella
Postale 64, 00044 Frascati, Italy
Tania Casal
European Space Agency (ESA-ESTEC), Keplerlaan 1, 2201 AZ Noordwijk,
the Netherlands
Mark R. Drinkwater
European Space Agency (ESA-ESTEC), Keplerlaan 1, 2201 AZ Noordwijk,
the Netherlands
Antonio Gabriele
European Space Agency (ESA-ESTEC), Keplerlaan 1, 2201 AZ Noordwijk,
the Netherlands
Arnaud Lecuyot
European Space Agency (ESA-ESTEC), Keplerlaan 1, 2201 AZ Noordwijk,
the Netherlands
Michael Ludwig
European Space Agency (ESA-ESTEC), Keplerlaan 1, 2201 AZ Noordwijk,
the Netherlands
Rolv Midthassel
European Space Agency (ESA-ESTEC), Keplerlaan 1, 2201 AZ Noordwijk,
the Netherlands
Ignacio Navas Traver
European Space Agency (ESA-ESTEC), Keplerlaan 1, 2201 AZ Noordwijk,
the Netherlands
Tommaso Parrinello
European Space Agency (ESA-ESRIN), Via Galileo Galilei, Casella
Postale 64, 00044 Frascati, Italy
Gerhard Ressler
European Space Agency (ESA-ESTEC), Keplerlaan 1, 2201 AZ Noordwijk,
the Netherlands
Erik Andersson
European Commission, BREY 09/154, 1049 Brussels, Belgium
Cristina Martin-Puig
EUMETSAT, Eumetsat Allee 1, 64295 Darmstadt, Germany
Ole Andersen
DTU Space, Elektrovej 28, 2800 Lyngby, Denmark
Annett Bartsch
b.geos, Industriestrasse 1, 2100 Korneuburg, Austria
Sinead Farrell
University of Maryland, 5825 University Research Court, 20740 College Park, MD, USA
Sara Fleury
CTOH/LEGOS/CNRS, 14 avenue Edouard Belin, 31400 Toulouse, France
Simon Gascoin
CESBIO, Université de Toulouse, CNRS/CNES/IRD/UPS, 31400 Toulouse, France
Amandine Guillot
CNES, 18 avenue Edouard Belin, 31400 Toulouse, France
Angelika Humbert
Alfred-Wegner-Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine
Research, Am Alten Hafen 26, 2758 Bremerhaven, Germany
Eero Rinne
Finnish Meteorological Institute, P.O. Box 503, 00101 Helsinki, Finland
Andrew Shepherd
Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
Michiel R. van den Broeke
Utrecht University, Princetonplein 5, 3584 CC Utrecht, the
Netherlands
John Yackel
University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Earth Sciences 356 Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Short summary
The Copernicus Polar Ice and Snow Topography Altimeter will provide high-resolution sea ice thickness and land ice elevation measurements and the capability to determine the properties of snow cover on ice to serve operational products and services of direct relevance to the polar regions. This paper describes the mission objectives, identifies the key contributions the CRISTAL mission will make, and presents a concept – as far as it is already defined – for the mission payload.
The Copernicus Polar Ice and Snow Topography Altimeter will provide high-resolution sea ice...
