Using ICESat-2 and Operation IceBridge altimetry for  supraglacial lake depth retrievals

Fair, Zachary; Flanner, Mark; Brunt, Kelly M.; Fricker, Helen Amanda; Gardner, Alex

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4253-2020

Articles | Volume 14, issue 11

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4253-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4253-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 14, issue 11

Research article

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27 Nov 2020

Research article |

| 27 Nov 2020

Using ICESat-2 and Operation IceBridge altimetry for supraglacial lake depth retrievals

Zachary Fair, Mark Flanner, Kelly M. Brunt, Helen Amanda Fricker, and Alex Gardner

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Final revised paper (published on 27 Nov 2020)
Preprint (discussion started on 25 May 2020)

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Review of Fair et al. "Using ICESat-2 and Operation IceBridge altimetry for supraglacial lake depth retrievals"', Anonymous Referee #1, 28 Jun 2020
- AC1: 'Response to RC #1', Zachary Fair, 19 Aug 2020
RC2: 'Good proof-of-concept of an important method - a few clarifying questions and suggestions', Allen Pope, 06 Jul 2020
- AC2: 'Response to RC #2', Zachary Fair, 19 Aug 2020

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

ED: Publish subject to revisions (further review by editor and referees) (22 Aug 2020) by Louise Sandberg Sørensen

AR by Zachary Fair on behalf of the Authors (28 Aug 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (19 Sep 2020) by Louise Sandberg Sørensen

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (03 Oct 2020)

ED: Publish as is (19 Oct 2020) by Louise Sandberg Sørensen

AR by Zachary Fair on behalf of the Authors (20 Oct 2020)

Short summary

Ice on glaciers and ice sheets may melt and pond on ice surfaces in summer months. Detection and observation of these meltwater ponds is important for understanding glaciers and ice sheets, and satellite imagery has been used in previous work. However, image-based methods struggle with deep water, so we used data from the Ice, Clouds, and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) and the Airborne Topographic Mapper (ATM) to demonstrate the potential for lidar depth monitoring.