Cryo2ice

Programme

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Cryo2ice Symposium 2024
Monday, 23rd September
Welcome Session
Chair: Tommaso Parrinello (ESA), Thorsten Markus (NASA)
09:00 10:15	Opening
	NASA Welcome
	ESA Welcome
	Glaciers and glaciology research in Iceland Guðfinna Th Aðalgeirsdóttir, University of Iceland
	Present-day climate change: the role of space observations Anny Cazenave, LEGOS
10:15 10:35	Coffee Break
Session 1. Mission Status
Chair: Monica Roca (isardSAT), Tom Neumann (NASA)
10:35 10:47	Fourteen Years of CryoSat: Mission Status and Future Outlook Tommaso Parrinello, ESA
10:47 10:59	ICESat-2 Mission Status and Overview Nathan Kurtz, Nasa
10:59 11:11	CryoSat-2 – 14+ Years of Successful Flight Operations Jens Lerch, ESA
11:11 11:23	Evolution of the CRYO2ICE tandem and performances of coincident tracks Javier Sanchez Martin, ESA
11:23 11:35	ICESat-2 Data Products and New Features and Improvements Coming in Release 007 Christine Sadlik, KBR/NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
11:35 11:47	NSIDC DAAC ICESat-2 products, tools, and services Lisa Kaser, Nsidc Daac
11:47 11:59	CryoSat Mission: 14 years of CalVal, Data Quality and Product Evolution Alessandro Di Bella , ESA
11:59 12:11	30 Years of Satellite and Airborne Altimetry Data at NSIDC DAAC Amanda Leon, NSIDC DAAC
12:11 13:30	Lunch Break
Session 2. Mountain Glaciers
Chair: Livia Jakob (Earthwave), Alessandro Di Bella (ESA)
13:45 14:00	Enhancing Glacier Mass Balance Estimates in Iceland by Combining CryoSat-2, ICESat and ICESat-2 Altimetry Data Johan Nilsson, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
14:00 14:15	Tracking glaciers’ health with radar altimetry – opportunities and challenges Livia Jakob, Earthwave
14:15 14:30	Changes in the Shape of Múlajökull Outlet Glacier Proglacial Lakes Between 1987 and 2021 Natasha Lee, Northumbria University
14:30 14:45	Mapping Elevation and Surface Roughness Changes of Negribreen, Svalbard, during its Mature Surge Phase using ICESat-2 Thomas Trantow, University Of Colorado Boulder
14:45 15:00	A data-driven framework to assess the mass evolution of Svalbard glaciers over the past two decades Tian Li, University of Bristol
15:00 15:15	Mapping Supraglacial Water Distributions in Arctic Surge Glaciers for Modeling Surge Initiation: Combined Image Classification and ICESat-2 Altimetry Rachel Middleton, University Of Colorado Boulder
15:15 15:30	Free slot
15:30 15:50	Coffee Break
3. Ice Sheets and Ice Shelves - Hydrology & Dynamics
Chair: Ben Smith (University of Washington), Anna Hogg (University of Leeds)
15:50 16:05	Ice-ocean-subglacial hydrology interactions, and recent evolution of the Thwaites Glacier Noel Gourmelen, University Of Edinburgh
16:05 16:20	Synchronous lake drainage and grounding line retreat at Engelhardt Subglacial Lake, West Antarctica, detected with ICESat-2, CryoSat-2 and SAR interferometry Bryony Freer, British Antarctic Survey
16:20 16:35	Impacts of Antarctic subglacial freshwater from the grounding zone to the open continental shelf Michael Dinniman, Old Dominion University
16:35 16:50	Causes and consequences of the rapid dynamic activation of a marine-terminating glacier on the west Antarctic Peninsula Benjamin Wallis, University Of Leeds
16:50 17:05	Modeling changes in subglacial hydrology and ice dynamics of the Greenland Ice Sheet corresponding to surface elevation changes between the ICESat and ICESat-2 eras Aleah Sommers, Dartmouth College
17:05 17:20	Five Years of ICESat-2-Derived Supraglacial Lake Depths Facilitate Advancements in Meltwater Volume Estimation and Novel Insights into Hydrological Processes on the Ice Sheets Philipp S. Arndt Scripps, Polar Center-UC San Diego
17:20 17:35	13 years of variable height-changes of Siple Coast ice streams from CryoSat-2 altimetry Matthew Siegfried, Colorado School Of Mines
17:35 17:50	Satellite and airborne altimetry reveal changes in ice dynamics on the Siple Coast ice streams, West Antarctica in 1997-2024 Hui Gao, University at Buffalo
18:00 19:30	Ice Breaker and Poster session
18:00 19:30	NSIDC DAAC Hands-on Tutorial: How to find, access, and work with ICESat-2 data from the NASA Earthdata Cloud Participants will learn about the various tools and services available from the NASA NSIDC DAAC to find, access, and visualize ICESat-2 data. In addition, participants will learn how to perform data search, access, and processing routines in a cloud environment where no data download is required.
18:00 19:30	ESA Tutorial: Accelerating CryoSat-2 projects with cs2eo.org: A hands-on workshop and demonstration cs2eo.org is a CryoSat-2 data and information services platform developed by Earthwave and the University of Edinburgh for ESA. cs2eo.org currently features most CryoSat-2 datasets (including all CryoTEMPO and predicted ground tracks), most relevant ICESat-2 datasets, and overlapping airborne campaigns (CryoVEx, IceBridge, etc).cs2eo.org was originally developed to enable the download of intersecting CryoSat-2 and ICESat-2 datasets for the CRYO2ICE campaign,and has since grown into a general platform for altimetry data and information services. cs2eo.org’s users enjoy basic data access (including coarse subsetting) and intersection processing for all of its datasets, as well as advanced data access (fine subsetting, including by field value or individual glacier) and time series processing for selected datasets. During this demonstration, we will explore cs2eo’s capabilities and explain how they can be used to streamline common altimetry tasks. Join us to learn more about how cs2eo could enable your next project.
Tuesday, 24th September
3. Ice Sheets and Ice Shelves - Mass Balance
Chair: Aleah Sommers (Dartmouth College), Mal McMillan (Lancaster University)
09:00 09:15	Modern-day mass balance of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets using a multi-sensor approach Brooke Medley, NASA/GSFC
09:15 09:30	Seasonal partitioning of Greenland mass change from data fusion of ICESat-2 elevation products Michalea King, University Of Washington, Polar Science Center
09:30 09:45	Dynamic ice thickness change from laser altimetry for Bayesian calibration of Greenland Ice Sheet mass change projections Denis Felikson, Nasa Goddard Space Flight Center
09:45 10:00	Geodetic mass balance estimation of glaciers on the west Graham Land of Antarctic Peninsula with combined TanDEM-X DEMs and altimetry data Yuting Dong, Alfred-wegener-institut Helmholtz-zentrum Für Polar- Und Meeresforschung, Bremerhaven
10:00 10:15	Using radar and laser altimetry to study the Antarctic Peninsula Ice Sheet Inès Otosaka, Northumbria University
10:15 10:30	Observing the Long-term Collapse of East Antarctica’s Conger-Glenzer Ice Shelf with Multi-mission Satellite Radar and Laser Altimetry Catherine Walker Woods, Hole Oceanographic Institution
10:30 10:50	Coffee Break
4. Ice Sheets and Ice Shelves - Elevation & Techinques
Chair: Anna Hogg (University of Leeds), Aleah Sommers (Dartmouth College)
10:50 11:05	The Eras of Satellite Altimetry: Three decades of monitoring Antarctic mass loss processes Helen Amanda Fricker, Scripps Institution of Oceanography/UCSD
11:05 11:20	Greenland Ice Sheet Elevation Change from Radar and Laser Altimetry Nitin Ravinder, Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling
11:20 11:35	New Approaches for Measuring Ice Sheet Elevation and Elevation Change: from CryoSat-2 and Cryo2Ice to CRISTAL Malcolm McMillan, CPOM Lancaster University
11:35 11:50	Retracked Cryosat-2 SARIN products enable high-resolution radar-optical data fusion Benjamin Smith; University Of Washington Apl
11:50 12:05	Waveform retracking with AWI-ICENet1: deep learning enables new opportunities for analysing ice sheet elevation change Erik Loebel, Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung
12:05 12:20	A facet-based numerical model to retrieve ice sheet topography from Sentinel-3 altimetry Jérémie Aublanc, CLS
12:20 12:35	Antarctic grounded icebergs in ICESat-2 laser altimetry, Sentinel-1 SAR, and WorldView stereo-photogrammetry Laurence Padman, Earth and Space Research
12:35 13:35	Lunch Break
5. Sea Ice - Snow & Sea Ice
Chair: Anne Braakmann-Folgmann (Arctic University of Norway), Thorsten Markus (NASA)
13:35 13:50	Snow Depth and Ice Thickness from ICESat-2 and CryoSat-2: findings from 5 years of observations Sahra Kacimi, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
13:50 14:05	Towards a new Arctic snow depth climatology from combined ICESat-2 and CryoSat-2 freeboard observations Donghui Yi, Gst Inc.
14:05 14:20	Freeboard and Snow Depth Estimates on Arctic Winter Sea Ice from Near-Coincident CryoSat-2 and ICESat-2 (CRYO2ICE) Observations during 2020-2022 Renée Mie Fredensborg Hansen, DTU Space
14:20 14:35	Correlating CRYO2ICE elevation difference and RADARSAT Constellation Mission compact polarimetric parameters to estimate snow depth on sea ice in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago Hoi Ming Lam, University Of Calgary
14:35 14:50	Validation and uncertainties of a multi frequency altimetry snow depth product over the Arctic ocean at different scales Alice Carret, Serco
14:50 15:05	Snow Depth Estimation on Lead-less Landfast ice using Cryo2Ice satellite observations Monojit Saha, University of Manitoba
15:05 15:20	Coffee Break
6. Sea Ice - Thickness & Dynamics
Chair: Sara Fleury (CNRS), Nathan Kurtz (NASA)
15:20 15:35	Seasonal snow depth and ice thickness evolution of Antarctic sea ice from ICESat-2 Ted Maksym, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
15:35 15:50	Comprehensive assessment of sea-ice thickness datasets: The ESA SIN’XS project Valentin Ludwig, AWI
15:50 16:05	Tracking the Spatiotemporal Variability of Sea Ice Deformation and Thickness in the Arctic from ICESat-2 and CryoSat-2 Sinead Louise Farrell, University of Maryland
16:05 16:20	Fram Strait Sea Ice Thickness from ICESat-2 and CryoSat-2 Freeboards Christopher Picard, University of Colorado
16:20 16:35	The shift of sea ice mass balance in the Ross Sea caused by atmospheric forcings, Hongjie Xie, University of Texas at San Antonio
16:35 16:50	Floes and Fracture from ICESat-2 and Cryosat-2 Christopher Horvat, Brown University
16:50 17:05	Climatology and interannual variability of Arctic winter sea ice leads in the ICESat-2 era Christopher Little, AER, Inc
19:00	Transfer from from HARPA to community Dinner
19:30 22:00	Community Dinner
22:00	Transfer back to HARPA
Wednesday, 25 September 2024
	CRYO2ICE COMMUNITY DAY
Thursday, 26 September 2024
4. Sea Ice - Snow & Summer Melt
Chair: Henriette Skourup (University of Denmark), Rachel Tilling (NASA)
09:00 09:15	Snow Depth Retrieval using Multi-Frequency Altimetry over Antarctic Summer Sea Ice in the Weddell Sea using Air- and Spaceborne Observations along CRYO2ICE Orbit Renée Mie Fredensborg Hansen, DTU Space
09:15 09:30	AMSR-2 Daily Snow Depth Data Product Using a Neural Network Algorithm Trained by Collocated ICESat-2 Measurements Sunny Sun-Mack, AMA & NASA
09:30 09:45	Enabling SAR altimetric simulations in the Snow Microwave Radiative Transfer (SMRT) model Ghislain Picard, Université Grenoble Alpes
09:45 10:00	Adaptive threshold retracking for Arctic summer sea ice freeboard Anne Braakmann-Folgmann, UiT The Arctic University of Norway
10:00 10:15	Combined unsupervised-supervised machine learning for Arctic summer lead detection using ICESat-2 data Wenxuan Liu, Wuhan University
10:15 10:30	Melt Pond Detection, Measurement and Melt Process Characterization — Results from ICESat-2 Data Analysis With the DDA-bifurcate-seaice and Airborne Campaign Data Ute Herzfeld, University Of Colorado Boulder
10:30 10:45	Coffee Break
5. Sea Ice - Algorithms & Methods
Chair: Sinead Farrell (University of Maryland), Thorsten Markus (NASA)
10:45 11:00	ICESat-2 Sea Ice Product Improvements and Updates Nathan Kurtz, Nasa
11:00 11:15	Who Saw it Best? (How Satellite Sampling Differences Impact Sea Ice Topography Retrievals from CryoSat-2, CryoSat-2 Fully-Focused SAR, and ICESat-2) Rachel Tilling, NASA Goddard/Uni of Maryland
11:15 11:30	Open water classification with Cryosat-2, ICESat-2, and other altimetry missions Felix L. Müller, Deutsches Geodätisches Forschungsinstitut of the Technical University of Munich
11:30 11:45	Detecting Sea Ice Leads and Floes in the Northwest Passage using CryoSat-2 Amy Swiggs, Centre For Polar Observation And Modelling, Northumbria University
11:45 12:00	An inter-comparison between the reprocessed Sentinel-3 sea-ice products, Cryosat-2 and IceSat-2 over sea-ice Fanny Piras, Collecte Localisation Satellites
12:00 12:15	Towards improved freeboard estimates using ICESat-2 data and models Rui Ponte, AER
12:15 12:30	Mapping Sea Ice Concentration in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago with CryoSat-2 Amy Swiggs, Centre For Polar Observation And Modelling, Northumbria University
12:30 13:30	Lunch Break
6. Beyond ice and Ocean
13:30 13:45	Agricultural crop height retrievals from ICESat-2 lidar Xiaomei Lu, NASA
13:45 14:00	ICESat-2 Atmospheric Layer Feature Subtyping Using MERRA-2 Model Reanalysis Kenneth Christian, University Of Maryland, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
14:00 14:15	There’s Green in the Ice Yonder: Science and Applications of the Most Downloaded ICESat-2 Data Product Sorin Popescu, Texas A&m University
14:15 14:30	An evaluation of ICESat-2-derived canopy cover and large-area mapping over temperate forests Lana Narine, Auburn University
14:30 14:45	Tuning ICESat-2 for Mountain Snow Depth Observation: Terrain Effects on ICESat-2-derived Snow Depth in Vegetated Alpine Watersheds Karina Zikan, Boise State University
14:45 15:00	Exploring the quality of ICESat-2 derived forest structure metrics in boreal forests Amy Neuenschwander, University of Texas at Austin
15:00 15:20	Coffee Break
7. Oceans & Hydrology - Inland Water and Coastal Sea level
Chair: Eric Anderson (Colorado School of Mines), Charon Birkett (NASA)
15:20 15:35	Preliminary performance assessment of the water surface elevation of HR SWOT products over lakes based on comparisons with the ICESat-2 mission Julien Renou, CLS
15:35 15:50	Point-Specific Surface Classification of Seasonal Ice for Earth’s Largest Lakes Using the ICESat-2 Inland Surface Water Product (ATL13): A Deep Learning Approach Isabella Peter, Colorado School Of Mines
15:50 16:05	Towards robust estimates of coastal mean sea level Brett Buzzang, Nasa/jpl
16:05 16:20	Improvement of Sea Surface Height Measurements from ICESat-2 with Applications to Mean Sea Level within Estuaries Alexa Putnam, University of Colorado Boulder
16:20 17:00	Round Table - "Women trailblazers: the present and the future of Remote Sensing Cryosphere science and engineering"
17:00 18:00	Poster session
17:00 18:00	NSIDC DAAC Hands-on Tutorial: How to find, access, and work with ICESat-2 data from the NASA Earthdata Cloud Participants will learn about the various tools and services available from the NASA NSIDC DAAC to find, access, and visualize ICESat-2 data. In addition, participants will learn how to perform data search, access, and processing routines in a cloud environment where no data download is required.
17:00 18:00	ESA Tutorial: Accelerating CryoSat-2 projects with cs2eo.org: A hands-on workshop and demonstration cs2eo.org is a CryoSat-2 data and information services platform developed by Earthwave and the University of Edinburgh for ESA. cs2eo.org currently features most CryoSat-2 datasets (including all CryoTEMPO and predicted ground tracks), most relevant ICESat-2 datasets, and overlapping airborne campaigns (CryoVEx, IceBridge, etc).cs2eo.org was originally developed to enable the download of intersecting CryoSat-2 and ICESat-2 datasets for the CRYO2ICE campaign, and has since grown into a general platform for altimetry data and information services. cs2eo.org’s users enjoy basic data access (including coarse subsetting) and intersection processing for all of its datasets, as well as advanced data access (fine subsetting, including by field value or individual glacier) and time series processing for selected datasets. During this demonstration, we will explore cs2eo’s capabilities and explain how they can be used to streamline common altimetry tasks. Join us to learn more about how cs2eo could enable your next project.
Friday, 27 September 2024
8. Oceans & Hydrology - Oceans
Chair: Jerome Bouffard (ESA), Michael Tsamados (University College London)
09:00 09:15	Variability of the Antarctic Coastal Current using ICESat-2 and CryoSat-2 altimetry Laurie Padman, California Institute Of Technology
09:15 09:30	Update on CryoSat’s Long-Term Ocean Data Analysis and Validation Marc Naeije, TU Delft / Space Engineering
09:30 09:45	ICESat-2 Ocean Altimetry James Morison, Polar Science Center, University of Washington
09:45 10:00	Inferring subsurface density changes in ice-covered oceans from ICESat-2 and GRACE Follow-On observations Rui Ponte, AER
10:00 10:20	Coffee Break
9. Synergies
Chair: Rene Forsberg (DTU), Aimée Gibbons (NASA)
10:20 10:35	Enhancing Cryosphere Monitoring: The Copernicus CRISTAL Mission Paolo Cipollini, ESA
10:35 10:50	CRISTAL performance assessment: an end-to-end simulation approach / CRISTAL Sea Ice and Iceberg L2 processing: Baseline approach and new developments Albert García-Mondéjar, isardSAT
10:50 11:05	CRISTAL, CRISTALair and campaigns: Paving the way for the next generation of cryospheric measurements Tania Casal, ESA
11:05 11:20	The Advanced Microwave Radiometer contribution to the CRISTAL mission cryospheric science Sahra Kacimi, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
11:20 11:35	CLEV2ER: Status of the CRISTAL Level-2 Prototype Processors for Land Ice and Inland Water Malcolm McMillan, CPOM Lancaster University
11:35 11:50	Investigating Coincident SWOT and ICESat-2 Multi-band Altimeter Retrievals over Sea Ice Sinead Louise Farrell, University of Maryland
11:50 12:05	St3TART-FO: Establishing a framework for operational Fiducial Reference Measurements (FRM) for Sentinel-3 Hydro-Cryo Altimetry products and beyond Claire Miller, NOVELTIS
12:05 13:00	Lunch Break
13:00 14:30	Chair Reporting, Wrap-up and Conclusions
Chair: Tommaso Parrinello (ESA), Thorsten Markus (NASA)
End of the Symposium