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title: Processing Terrabytes of Laser Altimetry Data in The Cloud
author: "Amy Steiker, Andy Barrett and Luis Lopez"
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## We know a lot about sea ice extent...


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...but less about ice thickness.
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## Estimating thickness from space

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![](images/sea_ice_freeboard_petty2020.png){.fragment .absolute top=150 left=300 width="40%"}

![](images/ross_sea_freeboard.png){.fragment .absolute top=200 left=600 width="40%"}
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## Ways of Working

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Jupyter Hub with notebooks

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Python scripts

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