Glacier and Ice Sheet Margin Topography (CryoTop)

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The ESA Support To Science Elements initiative

Support to Science Element (STSE)

The CryoTop project is part of ESA's Support to Science Element (STSE). STSE is a programme component of ESA's Earth Observation Envelope Programme (EOEP) which aims at supporting the next generation of european scientists, in addition to providing "scientific support for both future and on-going missions, by taking a proactive role in the formulation of new mission concepts and of the related scientific agenda, by offering a multi-mission support to the scientific use of ESA Earth Observation missions data and to the promotion of the achieved results" (ESA). For further information on the STSE, please visit ESA's STSE homepage.

Cryosat plus Cryosphere

Cryosat's mission is to precisely monitor changes in thickness of the worlds large ice masses including marine ice floating in the polar oceans, and the vast ice sheets that overlie Greenland and Antarctica. ESA's Cryosat+ Cryosphere project aims to provide a solid scientific basis for innovative science and new applications that may fully exploit the novel capabilities of the CryoSat mission under three themes:

Grounding line location, grounding line ice thickness and mass flux (fulfilled by the GLITter project)

Regional glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA) and elevation rate corrections (fulfilled by the REGINA project)

Novel applications of CryoSat data(fulfilled by the CryoTop project)

Contact details

Noel Gourmelen, The University of Edinburgh, School of GeoSciences, Drummond Street, EH8 9XP, Edinburgh.
Email: noel.gourmelen@ed.ac.uk

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