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Nathan T. Kurtz
Physical Scientist, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
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Analysis of Arctic summer sea ice heights to validate ICESat-2 measurements with airborne lidar technology.
OCEAN SCIENCES 2024
high latitude environments | 19 february 2024
Kutalmis Saylam, Aaron Averett, John R. Andrews, N...
In 2022, the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) and U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) researchers participated in an airborne d...
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Estimating Differential Penetration of Green (532 nm) Laser Light Over Sea Ice With NASA’s Airborne Topographic Mapper: Observations and Models
ADVANCES IN AIRBORNE AND SATELLITE ALTIMETRY OF THE POLAR REGIONS: THREE DECADES OF INNOVATIONS AND INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION II ORAL
cryosphere | 15 december 2023
Michael Studinger, Benjamin E. Smith, Nathan T. Ku...
Differential penetration of green laser light into snow and ice has long been considered a possible cause of range and thus elevation bias in laser al...
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Improving ICESat-2 summer melt pond detection and handling using insights from coincident airborne lidar and imagery data
ADVANCES IN AIRBORNE AND SATELLITE ALTIMETRY OF THE POLAR REGIONS: THREE DECADES OF INNOVATIONS AND INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION II ORAL
cryosphere | 15 december 2023
Mia Vanderwilt, Rachel Tilling, Nathan T. Kurtz
Melt ponds occurring on summer sea ice appear variously in satellite lidar retrievals, inconsistently biasing altimetry-based estimates of sea ice hei...
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The Influence of Satellite Sampling Differences on Sea Ice Topography Retrievals from CryoSat-2, CryoSat-2 Fully-Focused SAR, and ICESat-2
REMOTE SENSING OF THE CRYOSPHERE: SEA ICE II POSTER
cryosphere | 14 december 2023
Rachel Tilling, Alejandro Egido, Nathan T. Kurtz, ...
Continuous advancements in satellite technology are improving the resolution of sea ice altimetry from space. Since October 2010, the European Space A...
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Melt Characteristics of the Arctic Sea Ice in the New Arctic - Results from ICESat-2 Data Analysis With the DDA-bifurcate-seaice and Airborne Campaign Data
REMOTE SENSING OF THE CRYOSPHERE: SEA ICE II POSTER
cryosphere | 14 december 2023
Ute C. Herzfeld, Thomas Trantow, Huilin Han, Rache...
A main component of the New Arctic is the transformation of the sea-ice cover. As the Arctic sea ice has been reported to reach historic lows repeated...
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ICESat-2 Sea Ice Product Improvements and Updates
ICESAT-2 ON-ORBIT PERFORMANCE, DATA DISCOVERIES, AND SCIENCE RESULTS POSTER
cryosphere | 13 december 2023
Nathan T. Kurtz, Jesse Wimert, Ute C. Herzfeld, Je...
NASA's ICESat-2 (Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2) produces standard products for the retrieval of sea ice properties including along-track ...
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Elevation Observations and Waveform Analysis of NASA’s Airborne Topographic Mapper (ATM) Lidar Data over Arctic and Antarctic Sea Ice Involving Subsurface Penetration and Volume Scattering of Green (532 nm) Laser Light
ALTIMETRY OF THE POLAR REGIONS: CRYOSAT-2, OPERATION ICEBRIDGE, ICESAT-2, AND BEYOND III ONLINE POSTER DISCUSSION
cryosphere | 15 december 2022
Michael Studinger, Marco Bagnardi, Jeremy Harbeck,...
Retrieval of sea-ice thickness from airborne or spaceborne lidar elevations requires knowledge of freeboard and therefore sea-surface height. Sea-surf...
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Comparisons of Polar Ocean Sea Surface Height Retrievals from ICESat-2 Ocean and Sea Ice Products
ICESAT-2 ON-ORBIT PERFORMANCE, DATA DISCOVERIES, AND SCIENCE RESULTS I POSTER
cryosphere | 14 december 2022
Nathan T. Kurtz, Marco Bagnardi, Suzanne Dickinson...
NASAs ICESat-2 mission has taken nearly four years of surface measurements with unique coverage of the polar oceans which is able to determine sea sur...
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