ICESat-2 land ice products resolve Greenland and Antarctic ice-sheet height changes on seasonal to multiyear time scales

NASA's ICESat-2 mission was launched in 2018 carrying a photon-counting laser altimeter, with a primary objective of measuring height changes across Earth's surface.ICESat-2 has provided measurements of ice surface height between 88N and S with high vertical accuracy and alongtrack spatial resolution, repeated four times each year.Its accuracy and coverage has enabled near-complete recovery of height changes across the ice sheets, capturing subtle changes in the interior, rapid changes along the

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Journal of Glaciology
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2026-01-01
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https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2026.10152
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Cryospheric studies and observations
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ICESat-2 land ice products resolve Greenland and Antarctic ice-sheet height changes on seasonal to multiyear time scales

Journal of Glaciology
Cryospheric studies and observations
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ICESat-2 land ice products resolve Greenland and Antarctic ice-sheet height changes on seasonal to multiyear time scales

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NASA's ICESat-2 mission was launched in 2018 carrying a photon-counting laser altimeter, with a primary objective of measuring height changes across Earth's surface.ICESat-2 has provided measurements of ice surface height between 88N and S with high vertical accuracy and alongtrack spatial resolution, repeated four times each year.Its accuracy and coverage has enabled near-complete recovery of height changes across the ice sheets, capturing subtle changes in the interior, rapid changes along the

Journal of Glaciology
Dartmouth College (US), Goddard Space Flight Center (US), Scripps Institution of Oceanography (US), Colorado School of Mines (US), University of Washington (US), Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (US), University of California San Diego (US), Global Science & Technology (United States) (US), Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies (United States) (US), Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (US), Earth and Space Research (US), University of Maryland, College Park (US)
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