TY - GEN
T1 - Combining Envisat and CryoSat-2 altimetry to inform hydrodynamic models
AU - Schneider, Raphael
AU - Godiksen, Peter Nygaard
AU - Ridler, Marc-Etienne
AU - Villadsen, Heidi
AU - Madsen, Henrik
AU - Bauer-Gottwein, Peter
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Decreasing availability of in-situ river monitoring data can be met with increasing availability and quality of satellite altimetry data over rivers. CryoSat-2 is an altimeter mission launched in 2010 by the European Space Agency (ESA). With its unique drifting orbit, common procedures of working with satellite altimetry data over rivers cannot be easily applied. This work presents a way of informing a hydrologic-hydrodynamic model of the Brahmaputra River with CryoSat-2 altimetry. For one, CryoSat-2 data with its high spatial resolution was used to calibrate water levels in the 1D hydrodynamic model. For the other, a data assimilation framework was developed and applied, showing promising results for assimilation experiments with real and synthetic CryoSat-2 data.
AB - Decreasing availability of in-situ river monitoring data can be met with increasing availability and quality of satellite altimetry data over rivers. CryoSat-2 is an altimeter mission launched in 2010 by the European Space Agency (ESA). With its unique drifting orbit, common procedures of working with satellite altimetry data over rivers cannot be easily applied. This work presents a way of informing a hydrologic-hydrodynamic model of the Brahmaputra River with CryoSat-2 altimetry. For one, CryoSat-2 data with its high spatial resolution was used to calibrate water levels in the 1D hydrodynamic model. For the other, a data assimilation framework was developed and applied, showing promising results for assimilation experiments with real and synthetic CryoSat-2 data.
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M3 - Article in proceedings
AN - SCOPUS:84988531078
T3 - European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP
BT - Proceedings of Living Planet Symposium 2016
A2 - Ouwehand, L.
PB - European Space Agency
T2 - Living Planet Symposium 2016
Y2 - 9 May 2016 through 13 May 2016
ER -