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News - Operational News
New CryoSat Geographical Mode Mask v5.0 now in operation
On 01 May 2023 a new acquisition mask, Geographical Mode Mask v5.0, was put in operation to tackle new scientific challenges and to support the future Copernicus Polar Ice and Snow Topography Altimeter (CRISTAL) mission. The previous mask v4.0 had been in operation since 2019.
News - Success Stories
ESA missions deliver new long-term perspective on sea ice decline
A 29-year timeseries of polar sea ice thickness and volume that draws on altimetry data from a succession of ESA missions has been presented at the European Geoscience Union general assembly.
News - General News
CryoSat’s unparalleled record of global ice continues to 2025
CryoSat, ESA’s ice mission, has been a key to what the cryosphere community regards as a golden era for satellite altimetry.
News - Spotlight on EO community
An overview of the CryoSat mission
In this video, Tommaso Parrinello - CryoSat Mission Manager - talks about ESA's ice mission and some of its achievements after more than 10 years of operations.
News - Data Release news
New CryoTEMPO-EOLIS baseline 2 point and gridded products
New CryoTEMPO EOLIS baseline 2 point and gridded products are now available monthly as of January 2023.
Document - Algorithms Theoretical Baseline Document
CryoTEMPO-EOLIS-Algorithm-Theoretical-Basis-Document
This document contains the Algorithm Theoretical Basis for the ESA CryoTEMPO-EOLIS project. The ATBD describes the scientific background and principle of the algorithms, their expected or known accuracy and performance, the input and output data, as well as capabilities and limitations. The CryoTEMPO-EOLIS consists of two distinct products: 1) A point product containing elevation point measurements with an associated uncertainty 2) A gridded product containing a spatial interpolation of the point product onto a uniform grid of elevations and corresponding uncertainty. This product covers three main regions: Antarctic ice sheet, Greenland ice sheet and the glacier regions, as defined by IMBIE (The IMBIE Team, 2018; The IMBIE Team, 2020) and RGI 7.0 (RGI Consortium, 2017). The glacier regions include Iceland, Svalbard, Arctic Canada, Russian Arctic, Alaska, Southern Andes.
News - Data Release news
Brand new Cryo-TEMPO Baseline-B boosts CryoSat research
New datasets have been released for the Cryo-TEMPO thematic products.
News - Data Release news
New CryoSat Ice Baseline-E 2012 and 2013 Reprocessed Data – Available now!
We are pleased to inform the CryoSat scientific community that the reprocessed CryoSat Ice Baseline-E data for all of 2012 and 2013 has been published on the Science Server and is now available for download.
News - General News
ESA's excellent Earth Explorer missions extended to 2025
Since 2009, ESA’s Earth Explorer missions have pioneered breakthrough technologies and transformed our understanding of Earth’s system, from its core to the outer stretches of the atmosphere.
News - General News
Introducing Tommaso Parrinello
In this short introduction, ESA's Aeolus and CryoSat Mission Manager, Tommaso Parrinello, describes his role in these two diverse missions.
News - Data Release news
Near-Real Time Full Bit Rate (FBR) CryoSat products now available
We’re pleased to announce that as of 15 March 2023, the CryoSat Full Bit Rate (FBR) products are disseminated in Near-Real Time (NRT).
Document - Product Handbook
CryoTempo-EOLIS-Product-Handbook
This CryoTEMPO Product Handbook describes the operational products, a point cloud product containing the elevations derived using a swath processing algorithm and a gridded product with elevations at regularly spaced points on a grid. The operational products provide analysis ready data to a wider community of scientists rather than individual altimetry experts.
News - General News
Stunning new features for ESA and NASA altimetry portal cs2eo.org
Working with combined ESA and NASA altimetry data is easier than ever thanks to a range of handy new features on cs2eo.org.
News - Data Release news
New CryoSat Ice Baseline-E 2011 reprocessed data now available
We are pleased to inform the CryoSat scientific community that the reprocessed CryoSat Ice Baseline-E data for all of 2011 has been published on the Science Server and is now available for download.
News - Success Stories
Robust airborne radar instrument aids CryoSat ice data
During the 12 years that ESA’s ice mission – CryoSat – has been monitoring Earth’s ice masses from space, simultaneous airborne measurements were made by ASIRAS.
News - Success Stories
Decades of satellite data reveal the risks of climate tipping points
Decades-long time series that draw on ESA’s Earth observation archives are enabling scientists to uncover the threat of sudden and potentially irreversible changes to the icy parts of the planet.
News - Infographics
What is CRYO2ICE?
Learn about CRYO2ICE, an innovative campaign producing near simultaneous acquisitions over Antarctica from the CryoSat and ICESAT-2 missions, in this new infographic.
News - Thematic area articles
Satellites reveal changes to Earth’s icy zones
ESA’s Earth observation activities are helping scientists investigate the influence of climate change on widespread ice-losses across the planet.
Event - Conference
Living Planet Symposium 2022
Learn about the 2022 edition of ESA's Living Planet Symposium.
News - Success Stories
CRYO2ICE over Antarctica: revealing further insight on changing ice
The CryoSat-2 satellite is currently being aligned with ICESat-2 over Antarctica, unlocking fresh possibilities in the wealth of new information being delivered by the near-synchronous orbit of the two satellites.