Deriving long-term time series of sea ice cover from satellite passive-microwave multisensor data sets

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 104, Issue C7, 1999, Pages 15803-15814

  Cavalieri, D J ^a   Parkinson, C L ^a   Gloersen, P ^a   Comiso, J C ^a   Zwally, H J ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ICE COVER; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; NIMBUS-7; SATELLITE DATA; SEA ICE; SSM-I; TIME SERIES;

EID: 0033429177     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999jc900081     Document Type: Article

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