First ICESat-2 Cryospheric Hackweek at the University of Washington (June 2019)

This June 2019 event resulted in the production of a series of tutorials, developed primarily by members of the ICESat-2 Science Team and early data users, aimed at educating the cryospheric community in obtaining and using ICESat-2 datasets. During the actual Hackweek, teams of researchers and data scientists developed a series of interesting projects related to their interests/research. Many of these resources were drawn from in the initial development of icepyx.

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The available tutorials, most of which contain one or more Jupyter Notebooks to illustrate concepts, are listed below. Additional information for citing (including licensing) and running (e.g. through a Pangeo Binder) these tutorials can be found at the above link. They are published on Zenodo.

  1. Overview of the ICESat-2 mission (slides)

  2. Introduction to Open Science and Reproducible Research

  3. Access and Customize ICESat-2 Data via NSIDC API

  4. Intro to HDF5 and Reduction of ICESat-2 Data Files

  5. Clouds and ICESat-2 Data Filtering

  6. Gridding and Filtering of ICESat/ICESat-2 Elevation Change Data

  7. ICESat-2 for Sea Ice

  8. Geospatial Data Exploration, Analysis, and Visualization

  9. Correcting ICESat-2 data and related applications

  10. Numerical Modeling

Projects

Though in many cases preliminary, these project repositories c an provide useful starting points to develop effective cryospheric workflows where more formal examples and functionality have not yet been developed.

Sea Ice

  • Floes are Swell

    • Calculate chord length (CLD) and lead width (LWD)

  • Segtrax

    • Create trajectories of sea ice motion (creates Python trajectory class)

Glaciers and Ice Sheets

  • Crackup

    • Investigating small-scale features such as crevasses and water depth

  • GlacierSat2

    • Constrain surface types (e.g. wet vs. dry snow) using ICESat-2 data over the Juneau Icefield, working towards looking at seasonal elevation changes

  • WaterNoice

    • Detection of hydrologic features (e.g. meltwater ponds, firn aquifer seeps, blue ice megadunes, icebergs, etc.) in ATL06 land ice product

  • SnowBlower/blowing snow

    • Evaluate the blowing snow flag and look at blowing snow models

  • Cross-trak (xtrak)

    • Interpolation between ICESat-2 tracks

    • Create gridded elevation data from multiple ICESat-2 tracks

  • Ground2Float

    • Identify grounding zones using ICESat-2 data (using the slope-break method)

  • Topohack

    • Resolve topography over complex terrain