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Antarctic sea
ice thickness from space: validating estimates from the laser and radar
satellite altimeters with ship-based measurements is a three year
project funded by NASA Cryosphere Program (#NNX08AQ87G) from 6/3/2008-6/2/2011 (Project
Summary).
PERSONNEL
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Team |
Postdoc and
Students |
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Prof.
Steve Ackley (PI), UTSA
Dr.
Hongjie Xie (Co-PI), UTSA
Dr.
Thorsten Markus (Co-PI), NASA/GSFC
Dr.
Tony Worby (Co-PI), Australian Antarctic Division
Dr.
Jay Zwally (Collaborator), NASA/GSFC
Dr. Donghui Yi
(Collaborator), SGT/GSFC/NASA
Dr.
Seymour Laxon (Collaborator),
Univ. Col. London |
Dr. Ahmet Tekeli (Postdoc),
UTSA
Ms. Burcu Cicek (PhD
student), UTSA
Mr. Mike Lewis (PhD
student), UTSA
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NEWS
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LRSG/UTSA
awarded a NASA supplement for Education to develop "Polar and
Planetary Sciences Modules for k-12 Teachers", (30k for 2010-2011),
(PI Ackley, CoPIs Xie and Fies)
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Project
Second
Year Annual Report (2009-2010) to NASA: (pdf)
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Our NASA
project co-funding the
ISSI
workshop "Monitoring Arctic and Antarctic sea ice form various
satellite products" held in 15-19 March, 2010 at the ISSI, Bern,
Switzerland. Workshop team leaders Burcu and Hongjie.
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Workshop
presentations, papers, pictures, and summary of the workshop can be
downloaded from
here. (note: click Cancel if it asks you to enter a
password, you will then be able to download it or view it).
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Project First
Year Annual Report (2008-2009) to NASA: (pdf)
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LRSG/UTSA
researches/publications highlighted in the
NOTUS of the AGCS Newsletter in the June 2009
issue (pdf)
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Antarctic Sea Ice Workshop, Lucca, Italy (March 22-24, 2009)
Final Report (pdf)
PUBLICATIONS
Worby, A., A. Steer, J. Lieser, N. Galin,
D. Yi, I. Allison, P. Heil, R.A. Massom, and J. Zwally, 2010.
Regional-scale sea ice and snow thickness distributions from in situ and
satellite measurements over East Antarctica during SIPEX. Deep Sea
Research, Accepted
Xie,H., S.F. Ackley, D. Yi, H.J. Zwally, P.
Wagner, B. Weissling, M. Lewis, K. Ye 2010, Sea ice thickness
distribution of the Bellingshausen Sea from surface measurements and
ICESat altimetry, Deep Sea Research, Accepted
Ozsoy-Cicek, B., Kern, S., Ackley, S.F.,
Xie, H., Tekeli, A.E., 2010. Intercomparisons of Antarctic sea ice
properties from ship observations, active and passive microwave
satellite observations in the Bellingshausen Sea. Deep Sea Research II,
Accepted
Lewis,
M. J., Tison, J. L., Weissling, B., Delille, B., Ackley,
S. F., Brabant, F., Xie, H., 2010. Sea ice and snow cover
characteristics during the winter-spring transition in the
Bellingshausen Sea: an overview of SIMBA 2007, Deep Sea Research II
(accepted)
Huang, X.D., H. Xie, T.G. Liang, D. Yi,
2010. Estimating vertical error of SRTM and map-based DEMs using ICESat
altimetry data in eastern Tibetan Plateau. International J. of Remote
Sensing (accepted).
Weissling, B. and S.F. Ackley, Antarctic
sea ice altimetry: scale and resolution effects on derived ice thickness
distribution, IGS, Submitted, (presented at IGS Tromso Norway, June
2010)
Gao, Y., H. Xie, N. Lu, T.
Yao, and T. Liang, 2010. Toward advanced daily cloud-free snow
cover and snow water equivalent products from Terra-Aqua MODIS & Aqua
AMSR-E measurements. Journal of Hydrology, doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2010.01.022.
Gao, Y., H. Xie, T. Yao, and C. Xue, 2010.
Integrated assessment on multi-temporal and multi-sensor combination for
reducing cloud obscuration of MODIS snow cover products at the Pacific
Northwestern USA. Remote Sensing of Environment,
doi:10.1016/j.rse.2010.02.017
Fan, C., H. Xie, D. Schulze-Makuch, S.F.
Ackley, 2010. A formation mechanism for hematite-rich spherules on
Mars. Planetary and Space Science 58(3):401-410,
doi:10.1016/j.pss.2009.11.001
Weissling, B., S.F. Ackley,
P. Wagner, and H. Xie, 2009. EISCAM - Digital image
acquisition and processing for sea ice parameters from ships. Cold
Regions Science and Technology, 57(1): 49-60.
doi:10.1016/j.coldregions.2009.01.001 (link).
Ozsoy-Cicek, B., H. Xie, S.F.
Ackley, and K. Ye, 2009. Antarctic summer sea ice
concentration and extent: comparison of ODEN 2006 ship observations,
satellite passive microwave and NIC sea ice charts. The Cryosphere,
Vol.3 (1):1-9 (link).
Wang, X. and H. Xie, 2009. New methods
for studying the spatiotemporal variation of snow cover based on
combination products of MOIDS Terra and Aqua. Journal of Hydrology,
Vol 371:192-200. doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2009.03.028
Ackley,
S.F., M.J. Lewis, C.H. Fritsen, and H. Xie, 2008. Internal melting in
Antarctic sea ice: development of "Gap Layers". Geophysical Research
Letters, 35, L11503, doi:10.1029/2008GL033644
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