Robert Ricker

Seniorforsker

rori@norceresearch.no
+47 56 10 78 40
Forskningsparken Tromsø, Sykehusvn 23, 9019 Tromsø

Research Interests

Satellite remote sensing of the cryosphere
Satellite altimetry over sea ice and snow-covered regions
Sea ice thickness distribution across both hemispheres
Atmosphere-ice-ocean interactions
Developing satellite data products for climate research

Education

2015: Ph.D. in Geosciences from Jacobs University Bremen, Germany

2011: Diploma in Geophysics, Friedrich-Schiller University Jena, Germany

Professional Experience

2021 – : Senior Scientist, Earth Observation, NORCE Norwegian Research Centre, Tromsø, Norway

2017 – 2021: Postdoctoral Researcher, Sea Ice Physics, Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung, Bremerhaven, Germany

2016 – 2017: Postdoctoral Fellowship, Laboratoire d’Océanographie Physique et Spatiale, L’Institut français de recherche pour l’exploitation de la mer (IFREMER), Brest, France

2015 – 2016: Postdoctoral Researcher, Sea Ice Physics, Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung, Bremerhaven, Germany

2011 – 2015: Research Associate / PhD Candidate, Sea Ice Physics, Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz- Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung, Bremerhaven, Germany

Research Platform Profiles

ORCID (0000-0001-6928-7757)

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Recent peer-reviewed publications

Kaleschke, L., Tian-Kunze, X., Hendricks, S., and Ricker, R.: SMOS-derived Antarctic thin sea ice thickness: data description and validation in the Weddell Sea, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 16, 3149–3170, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-1..., 2024.

Wang, K., Wang, C., Dinessen, F., Spreen, G., Ricker, R., & Tian-Kunze, X. (2024). Multisensor data fusion of operational sea ice observations. Frontiers in Marine Science, 11, 1366002.

Hutter, N., Hendricks, S., Jutila, A. et al. Digital elevation models of the sea-ice surface from airborne laser scanning during MOSAiC. Sci Data 10, 729 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597...

Willatt, R., Stroeve, J. C., Nandan, V., Newman, T., Mallett, R., Hendricks, S., et al. (2023). Retrieval of snow depth on Arctic sea ice from surface-based, polarimetric, dual-frequency radar altimetry. Geophysical Research Letters, 50, e2023GL104461. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL104461

Ricker, R., Fons, S., Jutila, A., Hutter, N., Duncan, K., Farrell, S. L., Kurtz, N. T., and Fredensborg Hansen, R. M.: Linking scales of sea ice surface topography: evaluation of ICESat-2 measurements with coincident helicopter laser scanning during MOSAiC, The Cryosphere, 17, 1411–1429, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-..., 2023.