Primary Convener:
Randall Bonnell, USGS Water Mission Area

Convener:
Jack Tarricone, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Devon Dunmire, KU Leuven
Merritt Harlan, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Chair:
Randall Bonnell, Colorado State University
Jack Tarricone, University of Nevada, Reno
Devon Dunmire, KU Leuven
Merritt Harlan, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Publicly accessible data from radar satellites, the advent of the commercial radar satellite industry, and recent airborne radar missions (e.g., NoSREx, NASA’s ABoVE, Operation IceBridge, and SnowEx) have vastly expanded the use of radar data to study geophysical phenomena. This trend is particularly prominent for the remote cryosphere, where environments are extremely sensitive to global changes and are thus undergoing dramatic transformations. Here, comprehensive in-situ observations are difficult to obtain, but radar observations are increasing exponentially and upcoming missions have explicit cryosphere science priorities (e.g., NISAR, Sentinel-1C). This session invites contributions that use any radar remote sensing method (e.g., SAR, InSAR, Altimetry), frequency, or platform (e.g., spaceborne, airborne, ground-based) to study any component of the cryosphere (e.g., snow, glaciers, ice sheets, sea ice, permafrost). Presentations may include scientific or operational studies, or method development.

Index Terms
0702 Permafrost
0736 Snow
0758 Remote sensing
0776 Glaciology

Cross-Listed:
NS - Near Surface Geophysics
H - Hydrology

Neighborhoods:
3. Earth Covering