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DOI	10.5194/tc-11-2059-2017
	Comparison of CryoSat-2 and ENVISAT radar freeboard over Arctic sea ice: Toward an improved Envisat freeboard retrieval
	Guerreiro K.; Fleury S.; Zakharova E.; Kouraev A.; Rémy F.; Maisongrande P.
发表日期	2017
ISSN	19940416
卷号	11 期号:5
英文摘要	Over the past decade, sea-ice freeboard has been monitored with various satellite altimetric missions with the aim of producing long-term time series of ice thickness. While recent studies have demonstrated the capacity of the CryoSat-2 mission (2010-present) to provide accurate freeboard measurements, the current estimates obtained with the Envisat mission (2002-2012) still require some large improvements. In this study, we first estimate Envisat and CryoSat-2 radar freeboard by using the exact same processing algorithms.We then analyse the freeboard difference between the two estimates over the common winter periods (November 2010- April 2011 and November 2011-March 2012). The analysis of along-track data and gridded radar freeboard in conjunction with Envisat pulse-peakiness (PP) maps suggests that the discrepancy between the two sensors is related to the surface properties of sea-ice floes and to the use of a threshold retracker. Based on the relation between the Envisat pulse peakiness and the radar freeboard difference between Envisat and CryoSat-2, we produce a monthly CryoSat-2-like version of Envisat freeboard. The improved Envisat data set freeboard displays a similar spatial distribution to CryoSat-2 (RMSD D1.5 cm) during the two ice growth seasons and for all months of the period of study. The comparison of the altimetric data sets with in situ ice draught measurements during the common flight period shows that the improved Envisat data set (RMSED12- 28 cm) is as accurate as CryoSat-2 (RMSED15-21 cm) and much more accurate than the uncorrected Envisat data set (RMSED178-179 cm). The comparison of the improved Envisat radar freeboard data set is then extended to the rest of the Envisat mission to demonstrate the validity of PP correction from the calibration period. The good agreement between the improved Envisat data set and the in situ ice draught data set (RMSED13- 32 cm) demonstrates the potential of the PP correction to produce accurate freeboard estimates over the entire Envisat mission lifetime. © 2017 Author(s). This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
学科领域	algorithm; calibration; comparative study; correction; CryoSat; data set; Envisat; radar; sea ice; spatial distribution; time series; Arctic
语种	英语
scopus关键词	algorithm; calibration; comparative study; correction; CryoSat; data set; Envisat; radar; sea ice; spatial distribution; time series; Arctic
来源期刊	Cryosphere
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/119341
作者单位	Laboratoire d'Etudes en Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiales, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (LEGOS - CNRS, UMR5566), Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, 31400, France; State Oceanography Institute, St. Petersburg Branch, St.-Petersburg, Russian Federation; Department of Hydrology, Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russian Federation
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Guerreiro K.,Fleury S.,Zakharova E.,et al. Comparison of CryoSat-2 and ENVISAT radar freeboard over Arctic sea ice: Toward an improved Envisat freeboard retrieval[J],2017,11(5).
APA	Guerreiro K.,Fleury S.,Zakharova E.,Kouraev A.,Rémy F.,&Maisongrande P..(2017).Comparison of CryoSat-2 and ENVISAT radar freeboard over Arctic sea ice: Toward an improved Envisat freeboard retrieval.Cryosphere,11(5).
MLA	Guerreiro K.,et al."Comparison of CryoSat-2 and ENVISAT radar freeboard over Arctic sea ice: Toward an improved Envisat freeboard retrieval".Cryosphere 11.5(2017).