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CRYOSPHERE
卷 8, 期 2, 页码 345-357出版社
COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH
DOI: 10.5194/tc-8-345-2014
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- NASA's Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences program [NNX12AG67G]
- NASA [NNX12AG67G, 76731] Funding Source: Federal RePORTER
We report on a previously undocumented range error in NASA's Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite (ICE-Sat) that degrades elevation precision and introduces a small but significant elevation trend over the ICESat mission period. This range error (the Gaussian-Centroid or G-C offset) varies on a shot-to-shot basis and exhibits increasing scatter when laser transmit energies fall below 20 mJ. Although the G-C offset is uncorrelated over periods <= 1 day, it evolves over the life of each of ICESat's three lasers in a series of ramps and jumps that give rise to spurious elevation trends of -0.92 to -1.90 cm yr(-1), depending on the time period considered. Using ICESat data over the Ross and Filchner-Ronne ice shelves we show that (1) the G-C offset introduces significant biases in ice-shelf mass balance estimates, and (2) the mass balance bias can vary between regions because of different temporal samplings of ICESat. We can reproduce the effect of the G-C offset over these two ice shelves by fitting trends to sample-weighted mean G-C offsets for each campaign, suggesting that it may not be necessary to fully repeat earlier ICESat studies to determine the impact of the G-C offset on ice-sheet mass balance estimates.
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