Articles | Volume 15, issue 12
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-5387-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-5387-2021
Research article
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07 Dec 2021
Research article |  | 07 Dec 2021

River ice phenology and thickness from satellite altimetry: potential for ice bridge road operation and climate studies

Elena Zakharova, Svetlana Agafonova, Claude Duguay, Natalia Frolova, and Alexei Kouraev

Data sets

Landsat Science project USGS https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/

Jason-2 and Jason-3 geophysical data records (GDR) AVISO+ https://www.aviso.altimetry.fr/es/data/data-access.html

Unofficial Windows Binaries for Python Extension Packages C. Gohlke https://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/

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Short summary
The paper investigates the performance of altimetric satellite instruments to detect river ice onset and melting dates and to retrieve ice thickness of the Ob River. This is a first attempt to use satellite altimetry for monitoring ice in the challenging conditions restrained by the object size. A novel approach permitted elaboration of the spatiotemporal ice thickness product for the 400 km river reach. The potential of the product for prediction of ice road operation was demonstrated.