Seasonal to interannual variability in Antarctic sea-ice surface melt

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 38, Issue 4 II, 2000, Pages 1827-1842

  Drinkwater, Mark R ^a,b   Liu, Xiang ^c  

^a IEEE   (Netherlands)

^b EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EUROPEAN REMOTE SENSING; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; SEASONAL VARIABILITY;

ALGORITHMS; ANTARCTICA; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; IMAGE SENSORS; MELTING; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITES; SEA ICE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0034224533     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.851767     Document Type: Article

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