Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences

NSIDC Cryosphere Seminar

Wednesday November 17 2021 @ 11:00 am
to 12:00 pm

November

17

Wed

2021

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Event Type
Seminar
Availability

Open to Public

Audience
  • CIRES employees
  • CU Boulder employees
  • General Public
  • NOAA employees
  • Science collaborators
  • New insights into the polar sea ice-ocean state from NASA’s ICESat-2 presented by Alek Petty, NASA GSFC/UMD (alekpetty.com)
    Abstract: NASA’s ICESat-2 laser altimetry mission is revolutionizing our understanding of the polar regions including its fast-changing sea ice cover. ICESat-2, launched in fall 2018, has been specially designed for advanced sea ice profiling due its combination of high resolution (