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Earth Science

D-Index
36
Citations
6732
World Ranking
7091
National Ranking
2453

Best Publications

  • The Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2): Science requirements, concept, and implementation

    Thorsten Markus;Tom Neumann;Anthony Martino;Waleed Abdalati

  • CryoSat-2 estimates of Arctic sea ice thickness and volume

    Seymour W. Laxon;Katharine A. Giles;Andy L. Ridout;Duncan J. Wingham

  • The ICESat-2 Laser Altimetry Mission

    Waleed Abdalati;H Jay Zwally;Robert Bindschadler;Bea Csatho

  • Sea ice thickness, freeboard, and snow depth products from Operation IceBridge airborne data

    N. T. Kurtz;N. T. Kurtz;S. L. Farrell;M. Studinger;N. Galin

  • Interdecadal changes in snow depth on Arctic sea ice

    Melinda A. Webster;Ignatius G. Rigor;Son V. Nghiem;Nathan T. Kurtz

  • Impact of Variable Atmospheric and Oceanic Form Drag on Simulations of Arctic Sea Ice

    Michel Tsamados;Daniel L. Feltham;David Schroeder;Daniela Flocco

  • Large-scale surveys of snow depth on Arctic sea ice from Operation IceBridge

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  • Trends and connections across the Antarctic cryosphere.

    Andrew Shepherd;Helen Amanda Fricker;Sinead Louise Farrell

  • Snow Depth Retrieval on Arctic Sea Ice From Passive Microwave Radiometers—Improvements and Extensions to Multiyear Ice Using Lower Frequencies

    Philip Rostosky;Gunnar Spreen;Sinead L. Farrell;Torben Frost

  • The Scientific Legacy of NASA’s Operation IceBridge

    Joseph A. MacGregor;Linette N. Boisvert;Brooke Medley;Alek A. Petty;Alek A. Petty

  • A First Assessment of IceBridge Snow and Ice Thickness Data Over Arctic Sea Ice

    S. L. Farrell;N. Kurtz;L. N. Connor;B. C. Elder

  • Mapping Sea Ice Surface Topography in High Fidelity With ICESat‐2

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  • Surface Height and Sea Ice Freeboard of the Arctic Ocean From ICESat-2: Characteristics and Early Results

    R. Kwok;T. Markus;N. T. Kurtz;A. A. Petty;A. A. Petty

  • Utilizing CryoSat-2 sea ice thickness to initialize a coupled ice-ocean modeling system

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  • Five years of Arctic sea ice freeboard measurements from the Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite

    Sinead L. Farrell;Seymour W. Laxon;David C. McAdoo;Donghui Yi

  • The Copernicus Polar Ice and Snow Topography Altimeter (CRISTAL) high-priority candidate mission

    Michael Kern;Robert Cullen;Bruno Berruti;Jerome Bouffard

  • Intercomparison of snow depth retrievals over Arctic sea ice from radar data acquired by Operation IceBridge

    Ron Kwok;Nathan T. Kurtz;Ludovic Brucker;Ludovic Brucker;Alvaro Ivanoff

  • Observations of Recent Arctic Sea Ice Volume Loss and Its Impact on Ocean-Atmosphere Energy Exchange and Ice Production

    N. T. Kurtz;N. T. Kurtz;T. Markus;S. L. Farrell;S. L. Farrell;D. L. Worthen

  • Arctic Report Card 2020: Sea Ice

    Donald Perovich;W. Meier;M. Tschudi;S. Hendricks

  • Ice and ocean velocity in the Arctic marginal ice zone: Ice roughness and momentum transfer

    Sylvia T. Cole;John M. Toole;Ratnaksha Lele;Mary-Louise Timmermans

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