CryoSat-2’s contribution to the complete sea level records from the Polar Oceans
- 1Technical University of Denmark, DTU Space, Division of Geodesy and Earth Observation, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark (stine@space.dtu.dk)
- 2LEGOS, 14 Avenue Edouard Belin, 31400 Toulouse, France
- 3UCL, Dept. of Earth Sciences, 5 Gower Place London WC1E 6BS, UK
- 4CLS, France
- 5ESA / ESRIN, Via Galileo Galilei, 1, 00044 Frascati RM, Italy
The sea level of the Polar Oceans is an important climate indicator. The CryoSat-2 satellite has been measuring the polar oceans with great success, and has improved the sea level uncertainties remarkably . We present the DTU/TUM sea level record based on more tahn 15 years of ESA radar satellite altimetry data in the Arctic Ocean from the ERS2 (1995) to CryoSat-2 (present) satellites. The Arctic sea level record is part of the ESA CCI Sea level initiative and has been updated with a new and better CryoSat processing from the ESA GPOD processing. Furthermore, we present a sea level record from the Southern Ocean as part of the ESA CryoSat+ Antarctica project based on ten years of CryoSat-2 measurements. The changes in the sea level are temporal and spatial analyzed.
How to cite: Rose, S. K., Andersen, O. B., Fleury, S., Ludwigsen, C., Tsamados, M., Dinardo, S., Bouffard, J., and Benveniste, J.: CryoSat-2’s contribution to the complete sea level records from the Polar Oceans, EGU General Assembly 2021, online, 19–30 Apr 2021, EGU21-15978, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-15978, 2021.
