Utilisation of CryoSat-2 SAR altimeter in operational ice charting

Rinne, E.; Similä, M.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-121-2016

Articles | Volume 10, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-121-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-121-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 10, issue 1

Research article

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18 Jan 2016

Research article |

| 18 Jan 2016

Utilisation of CryoSat-2 SAR altimeter in operational ice charting

E. Rinne and M. Similä

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Final revised paper (published on 18 Jan 2016)
Preprint (discussion started on 03 Aug 2015)

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

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RC C1422: 'Review of "Utilisation of CryoSat-2 SAR altimeter in operational ice charting"', Anonymous Referee #1, 15 Aug 2015
- AC C2170: 'Response to comments by anonymous reviewer #1', Eero Rinne, 06 Nov 2015
SC C1453: 'Comment on UCL NRT product by Andrew Shepherd', Andrew Shepherd, 20 Aug 2015
- AC C2134: 'Validation of the UCL Near Real time CS-2 product.', Eero Rinne, 03 Nov 2015
RC C1668: 'Review of Rinne and Simila', Anonymous Referee #2, 17 Sep 2015
- AC C2167: 'Response to the comments of reviewer #2', Eero Rinne, 06 Nov 2015

Peer-review completion

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

AR by Eero Rinne on behalf of the Authors (28 Nov 2015) Author's response

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (03 Dec 2015) by Olaf Eisen

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (15 Dec 2015)

ED: Publish as is (17 Dec 2015) by Olaf Eisen

Short summary

This paper demonstrates the use of the CryoSat-2 SAR altimeter in operational ice charting. We take CryoSat-2 data and compare them to ice charts over the sea-ice-covered regions in the Barents and Kara seas. We also present an automatic classification method for CryoSat-2 measurements that could be used to support navigation. We conclude that SAR altimeter measurements can be valuable to operational ice charting if other data sources are unavailable.