is presenting her work this week at the American Geophysical Union's Fall Meeting in San Francisco.

Cryosat is the European Space Agency's (Esa) dedicated polar monitoring platform.

It was sent up with a sophisticated radar system that enables scientists to work out the thickness of the sea ice covering the Arctic Ocean.

In the three years following its launch in 2010, the satellite saw a steady decline in autumn volume at the end of the summer melt.

The deep lows in this short series were 5,300 and 5,400 cubic km in 2011 and 2012, respectively. But then came the bounce back, with colder weather over the following two years resetting the minimum.

Indeed, Cryosat's five-year October average now shows pretty stable volume - even modest growth (2014 is 12% above the five year-average).

Cryosat'swas 10 years ago," Beckett said. "He was only there two or three days, but it was pretty special."

The adjustment from Koufax will help Beckett most while pitching out of the windup, something Beckett said he did only one since the end of last season before Tuesday.