Ice surface elevation data over ice sheets, glaciers, and sea ice to bridge the gap between ICESat and ICESat-2 missions
- New measurements critical to ice sheet models: bed topography, grounding line position, ice and snow thickness
- Major results from more than 450 publications: First maps of snow thickness over Arctic sea ice; fundamental redraw of Antarctic bedmap; new insights into dynamic processes of the major ice sheets, discovery of mega-canyon in Greenland; discovery of widespread perennial aquifer in Greenland ice sheet; revelation of the destabilization of glaciers in Antarctica and Greenland; contribution of Alaskan glaciers to sea level rise
- Science flights with multiple platforms (P-3B, DC-8, B200, HU-25, Basler BT-67, Single Otter, GV, C-130); more than 20 instruments
