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Monday 20 March 2017
9:30am - 12:10pm	Opening Chair: Rune Floberghagen Chair: David J. Knudsen Chair: Tommaso Parrinello Opening address by the President of the Canadian Space Agency Sylvain Laporte Sylvain Laporte Opening by the Director of ESA Earth Observation Programmes Josef Aschbacher Josef Aschbacher Opening address by the Director NASA Earth Science Division Michael Freilich Michael Freilich Welcome address by the Vice President of the University of Calgary Professor Ed McCauley Ed McCauley The Citizen Scientist - A New Era Eric Frank Donovan Keynote address by professor Andrew Shepherd on the impact of Cryosat for the understanding of polar regions in the context of global change Andrew Shepherd Address by professor Michael Sideris, President of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, representing all Earth scientists around the globe Michael Sideris Status of the ESA Earth Explorer Missions Mark Drinkwater
2:00pm - 3:40pm	Session 1C - Mission Overview Chair: Nic Mardle Chair: Pascal Gilles CryoSat Mission. 7 years in Operations: Status and Achievements Tommaso Parrinello Cryosat - Scientific Highlights Andrew Shepherd Cryosat - Validation Campaigns Mark Drinkwater CryoSat Product Evaluation & Evolution after 7-years in Operation Jérome Bouffard The Sentinel-3 Altimetry Land Mission: Overview and Status of Operations Pierre Féménias
4:10pm - 5:30pm	Session 1D - Sea ice records from missions Chair: Rachel Tilling Chair: Eero Rinne Invited - Keynote: Understanding Inter-annual Variability, and Long Term Trends, in Polar Sea Ice using Satellite Laser and Radar Altimetry: Current Achievements and Future Prospects Sinead Farrell Monthly Variability of Sea Ice Thickness from CryoSat-2 Ron Kwok Drop of Arctic Sea-Ice Growth in Winter 2015/16 Observed with Merged CryoSat-2/SMOS Data Record Stephan Paul Towards Climate Data Records of Arctic and Antarctic Sea Ice Thickness from CryoSat-2 and Envisat Radar Altimetry Stephan Paul
5:30pm - 6:00pm	Poster Flash - Products, Technics and Tools CryoSat Interferometer: End-to-End Calibration and Achievable Performance Michele Scagliola CryoSat SAR/SARin Level1b Products: Assessment of BaselineC and Improvements towards BaselineD Michele Scagliola CONFORM: CryOsat Netcdf FORmat Migration for Ice and Ocean Products Marco Fornari Transponder Calibration in SAR/SARIN Altimetry: from CryoSat-2 to Sentinel-3 Mònica Roca Squeezing SARIn Capabilities for Complex Scenarios: L1 & L2 Processing Improvements Mònica Roca Broadview Radar Altimetry Toolbox Marc Naeije VtCryoSat Guillaume Aurel Sea Ice App Anna Hogg
6:00pm - 7:30pm	Welcome Reception & Poster Session

Tuesday 21 March 2017
8:30am - 10:10am	Session 2A - Sea-ice thickness retrieval and validation #1 Chair: Thomas Armitage Chair: Ron Kwok Impact of Ice and Snow Properties on Freeboard Retrieval and Sea-Ice Thickness Calculation from ALS, ASIRAS and CryoSat-2 Jennifer King Novel Measurements of the Snow Depth Distribtuion on Sea Ice in Support of Polar Altimetry Sinead L Farrell Deriving Snow Depth for Arctic Sea Ice Thickness Retrievals: Can We Trust Precipitation Estimates from Reanalyses? Linette Nicole Boisvert Consistent CryoSat-2/Envisat Waveform Interpretation Over Sea Ice Stephan Paul Validation Of CryoSat Sea Ice Thickness Retrievals Christian Haas
10:40am - 12:20pm	Session 2B - Sea-ice thickness retrieval and validation #2 Chair: Christian Haas Chair: Amandine Guillot Validation of CryoSat-2 Sea Ice Thickness with Upward-Looking Sonar Measurements in the Eastern Canadian Arctic Ingrid Peterson The Development of a Dynamic Snow Load for Cryosat-2 Sea Ice Thickness Retrievals Rachel Tilling Using Ice Thickness Distribution from Cryosat to Initialise Sea Ice Models Michel Tsamados A Physical Approach for Freeboard Computation from CryoSat-2 Pierre Thibaut Retrievals of Lake Ice Thickness Using CryoSat-2 Justin Francis Beckers
2:00pm - 3:40pm	Session 2C - New application frontiers over polar ocean Chair: Michele Scagliola Chair: Jerome Bouffard Chair: Marco Fornari Iceberg Detection and Analysis using Cryosat Modes Jean Tournadre Scientific Applications of Fully-Focused SAR Altimetry Alejandro Egido As Assessment of Sea Ice Freeboard Derived from Fully-Focussed SAR Altimetry Thomas Armitage Deriving IMO Polar Code Risk Index Outcome from Cryosat-2 Eero Rinne An Assessment of the State-of-the-Art Mean Sea Surface and Geoid Models of the Arctic Ocean: Implications for Sea Ice Freeboard Derivation Henriette Skourup
4:10pm - 5:10pm	Session 2D - Application and validation over Ocean Chair: Walter H F Smith Chair: G. Costa The Great Value of Cryosat-2 SAR-in for Coastal Sea Level Monitoring Ole Baltazar Andersen Evaluating the Performance of Sentinel-3 SRAL SAR Altimetry in the Coastal and Open Ocean, and Developing Improved Retrieval Methods – The ESA SCOOP Project Jérôme Benveniste Using Cryosat to Improve the Observation of Global Oceanic Internal Tides Zhongxiang Zhao
5:10pm - 6:00pm	Poster Flash - from Sea Ice to Ocean Assessing IceBridge Snow Depth Retrievals over Arctic Sea Ice Using Estimates from Multiple Sources Ron Kwok Arctic Lead Detection using a Waveform Unmixing Algorithm from CryoSat-2 Data Sanggyun Lee Tuning SAR Processing to Measure Sea Ice Freeboard Sara Fleury Comparing Coincident IceBridge and CryoSat-2 Observations Over Sea Ice Donghui Yi Determing Arctic Freshwater Fluxes with Cryosat-2 Ole Baltazar Andersen The Norwegian Coastal Current Observed by CryoSat2 SARIn Altimetry Martina Idzanovic GOCE and Cryosat-2 for Dynamical Coastal Topography and Tide Gauge Unification Ole Baltazar Andersen Coastal Altimetry from CryoSat-2 Luciana Fenoglio Improved Oceanographic Measurements with CryoSat SAR Altimetry Marco Restano Quality Assessment of CryoSat-2 Ocean Altimetry Marc Naeije Global Evaluation Of The New CryoSat Geophysical Ocean Products Chris Banks Tropical Cyclones Above Australia During Last 12 Years Liudmila Vanina-Dart
6:00pm - 7:30pm	Poster Session & Drinks: same posters as during all poster sessions for abstract details please refer to Poster Session on Monday 20 March 17.50-19.00

Wednesday 22 March 2017
8:30am - 10:10am	Session 3A - Ice Sheet elevation time records Chair: Malcolm McMillan Chair: Tommaso Parrinello Invited - Keynote: Monitoring Antarctica's Ice Shelves and Active Subglacial Lakes with Satellite Altimetry Helen Amanda Fricker Ice Shelf Thickness Change from CryoSat-2 Anna Hogg Elevation Changes of the Greenland Ice Sheet from 2013 to Present - CryoSat-2 vs. SARAL/ALtiKA Sebastian B. Simonsen Extending Antarctic Ice Shelf Height Change Time Series using Cryosat-2 Susheel Adusumilli Satellite Altimetry of Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets: 40 Years of Advances and Challenges H Jay Zwally
10:40am - 12:20pm	Session 3B - Ice Sheet retrieval and techniques Chair: Andrew Shepherd Chair: H Jay Zwally Cryosat-2 and Sentinel-3 SAR-Mode Altimetry Performance over the Antarctic Ice Sheet François Boy Comparison of Interferometric and Non-Interferometric SAR Altimetry over Ice Sheets Malcolm McMillan Influence of Retracker on Ice-Volume and Mass Change Estimates of Greenland and Antarctica Veit Helm On a Path Towards the Reassessment of Antarctic Volume Change: Synthesis of ESA CryoSat-2 Radar and NASA Airborne and Satellite Laser Altimetry Observations Johan Nilsson Combining Data Sets to Improve the Vertical and Spatial Resolution of Cryosat-2 Elevation-Change Mapping. Benjamin E. Smith
2:00pm - 3:40pm	Session 3D - CryoSat2-IceSat2 synergy towards future polar missions Chair: Tommaso Parrinello Chair: Erik De Witte ICESat-2, its Retrievals of Ice Sheet Elevation Change and Sea Ice Freeboard, and Potential Synergies with CryoSat-2 Thorsten Markus Possible Extensions for the ESA Ice Mission CryoSat-2: Exploiting the CryoSat-2/ICESat-2 Synergies Javier Sanchez Continuation of Service for CryoSat using the Sentinel-6 Heritage Platform with an Interferometric SAR Altimeter Bjoern Barthen Evolutions of the SIRAL instrument for the Cryosat Follow-On mission Yves Le Roy AltiCryo: A CNES Altimetry Concept Study for Cryosphere Monitoring Amandine Guillot
4:10pm - 5:10pm	Session 3C - Brainstorming, User Feedback Session - Live Connection to Cryosat Campaigns Chair: Tommaso Parrinello Chair: Erik De Witte Chair: Thorsten Markus
5:10pm - 5:30pm	Poster Flash - Land Ice and Other Elevation change of Antarctic ice shelves from 2011 to 2016 using CryoSat-2 Daehyeon Han Comparison of Cryosat-2 Altimeter Data with ICESat-2 Simulator (SIMPL) Data over Western Greenland Outlet Glaciers Gavin Christopher Medley Analysis of the Complete Bouguer Gravity Anomaly and the Parker–Oldenburg Inversion for the Three-Dimensional Moho depth Model in the Central Alborz Structural Zone, Northern Iran Soran Parang

Thursday 23 March 2017
11:15am - 12:30pm	Session 4B - Cryosphere and Geodesy Large Precipitation Event Influences Sub-Glacier Hydrology and Ice Flow of Recovery Ice Stream, East Antarctica Indrani Das Estimate of Regional Glacial Isostatic Adjustment in Antarctica Considering a Lateral Varying Earth Structure (ESA-STSE Project REGINA) Jonathan L. Bamber Arctic Gravity Field from Cryosat-2 Ole Baltazar Andersen High-Resolution Mass Changes of the Greenland and Antarctica Ice Sheets from Combined CryoSat and GRACE Inversion Rene Forsberg High Mountain Asia Glacier Mass Balance Estimates Using Satellite Geodetic Observations Jian Sun
2:00pm - 3:20pm	Session 4C - Ice sheet dynamics Chair: Anna Hogg Chair: Laurence Gray Measuring Surface Processes for the Interpretation of CryoSat-2 and IceBridge Altimetry in the Accumulation Zone of Greenland. Santiago de la Peña Swath Processing of CryoSat-2 for Improved Coverage of the Grounding Zone Geoffrey Joseph Dawson Fourteen Years of Subglacial Lake Activity in Antarctica from Multi-Mission Altimetry Matthew R. Siegfried Comparison of Regional Scheme Techniques for Estimating the Canadian Arctic Archipelago Land Ice Mass Changes from ICESat Iliana Tsalis
3:20pm - 3:40pm	Poster Flash
4:10pm - 5:50pm	Session 4D - Ice-caps and Glaciers Chair: Helen Amanda Fricker Chair: Jonathan Bamber Invited - Keynote: Monitoring and Modelling Glacier Changes in Western Canada Shawn Marshall Near Real-Time Mass Balance of Arctic Ice Caps from the CryoSat-2 Radar Altimeter David Burgess Validation of CryoSat-2 for Elevation-Change Detection Over Glaciers on Svalbard and Ice Rises in Antarctica Geir Moholdt Swath Processing of CryoSat-2 for the Study of Ice Caps and Mountain Glaciers Noel Gourmelen Cryosat-2 Altimetry of BC Coastal Mountain Glaciers Jim Gower
5:50pm - 7:30pm	Poster Session & Drinks: same posters as during all poster sessions for abstract details please refer to Poster Session on Monday 20 March 17.30-19.00

Friday 24 March 2017
8:30am - 9:30am	Session 5A - Glaciers: multisensor observations and simulations Chair: David Burgess Chair: Rene Forsberg Challenges and Approaches to Altimeter-Data Analysis of Rapidly Changing and Heavily Crevassed Glacier Systems: The Bering Bagley Glacier System, Alaska, During Surge in the View of CryoSat-2, ICESat-2 and Airborne Altimetry Ute Christina Herzfeld Numerical Experiments of Surface Crevassing during the Surge of the Bering-Bagley Glacier System in 2011-2013 and Sensitivity to CryoSat-2 Processing Thomas Trantow Calibration and Use of the Interferometric Mode of the CryoSat Radar Altimeter to Measure Height Change in the Periphery of the Greenland Ice Cap Laurence Gray
9:30am - 10:10am	Seed questions & QA
10:40am - 11:40am	Session 5B - Hydrology Chair: Karina Nielsen Chair: Pierre Féménias Markov Random Field Based Waveform Retracking Solved by the Graph Cuts Technique Omid Elmi Water Level Estimation Along The Mekong River Using Cryosat-2 SAR Multi-Look Stack Data Eva Boergens General Evaluation of the Performance of CryoSat-2 over Inland Water Karina Nielsen
11:40am - 12:20pm	Seed questions & QA

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