Observation of perennial Arctic sea ice melt and freeze-up using passive microwave data

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 103, Issue C12, 1998, Pages 27753-27769

  Smith, Douglas M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; FREEZE-THAW CYCLE; MELT; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA ICE;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0032534169     PISSN: 21699275     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98JC02416     Document Type: Article

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