Dear Colleagues
The ESA Climate Change Initiative (www.esa-cci.org) has launched a new project to provide selected Essential Climate Variables of the Greenland Ice Sheet. The ECV’s include Surface Elevation Change (from radar altimetry), Ice Velocity (from SAR), and outlet glacier Calving Front Locations and Grounding Line Locations.
As part of the project, a fully open “Round-Robin” algorithm intercomparison test has been launched – to aid in the selection of “best algorithms” for the future routine ECV production. You are cordially to participate in this test.
Instructions and data (or links to data) are available at http://roundrobin.esa-icesheets-cci.org for the selected regions of the ice sheet.
Deadline for reporting back in end of September 2012. Results will be anonymized, but all participants will be acknowledged for each of the 4 tests (joint paper(s) could also be an option).
Yours
Rene Forsberg, National Space Institute,
Contact persons for the Round-Robin tests:
SEC: Francesca Ticconi, F.Ticconi@leeds.ac.uk
IV: John Merryman Boncori, jme@space.dtu.dk
CFL and GLL: Kilian Scharrer, kilian.scharrer@enveo.at
Web/data support: Martijn Kamstra, kamstra@stcorp.no
