Sea ice concentration, ice temperature, and snow depth using AMSR-E data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 243-252

  Comiso, Josefino C ^a   Cavalieri, Donald J ^a   Markus, Thorsten ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Arctic regions; Microwave radiometry; Sea ice; Snow; Temperature

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; EARTH (PLANET); FREQUENCIES; MICROWAVE DEVICES; SCANNING; SEA ICE; SNOW;

MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY;

RADIOMETERS;

EID: 0037936853     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2002.808317     Document Type: Article

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